I have copied, below, my post on the subject of "When did you start punting". I posted it this year, on February 25th.
I haven't punted in Shepherd Market since the late 1960s, when the prices still maintained a level between £3-50 to £10-00. In Soho, at that time, you could get sex for between £3-00 and £5-00 pounds and a hand-job for either £1-00 or £2-00. There was a lady in Lisle Street who gave a lovely HJ for £2-00.
Soho's current prices are well-documented on this forum and seem to vary from £20-00 to £40-00. However, I haven't punted in Soho for many a year and certainly not since I started using AW in 2006. I'm fairly sure that I haven't used Soho since either the late 1980s or early 1990s, as there were lots of local brothels and plenty of street girls working in cars during those years.
These prices seem ridiculous in today's economic climate but wages were also considerably lower. I had a reasonably good job but didn't earn over £1,000-00 a year until 1969, which was a good wage in those days.
Here is my post referred to above:-
In !967, when I was 24, in Shepherd Market.
It was my second attempt, as I lost my nerve the first time when the lady (Marina) appeared, and "made my excuses and left" as any good NOTW reporter would then have done!! Christ, was I naive and inexperienced, or what?
It cost £3-00 for basic sex, but for £5-00 you got OWO as well.
In those days, tights were rarely affordable to most women, who still wore stockings and suspenders as everyday wear. Lovely memories, and women still regularly wore stockings as late as 1968/9, albeit that hold-ups and tights were then taking over and a golden era came to an end, thanks to Mary Quant.
I was earning £860-00 a year then, so £5-00 was a fair price to pay for a London punt. Also some girls still charged in guineas.
Anyway, I went back for a fiver's worth and visited several times subsequently. She was a cracking lady and washed your entire genitals in warm soapy water both before and afterwards and, to this day, I have never forgotten her oral technique, depite having had many an excellent BJ since.
Sorry to inflict the boring nostalgia of a 70 year old upon you and, yes, I still do punt and I have other threads on UKP as well as several FRs on AW.
Martyn