@Mrwumpty -
the back pages, that reminds me of a story.
Not my first punt, but my first experience of being present when someone else was having a punt - this was before I had ever punted.
Many years ago I shared a ownership of a large motor boat with three friends. We used it around the Solent / IOW. This particular weekend we travelled to Brighton, one of the friends picked up a freebie paper and called an advert from the back pages. He subsequently announces that he has a girl coming to the boat for paid sex, he said it as though it was like he'd just ordered a Pizza. Myself and the others were quite surprised, and at first thought he was joking.
20 minutes later he goes off to the marina entrance to let the girl in. He comes walking down the dock with a skanky looking girl and her skanky boyfriend (obviously junkies). Lucky enough it was already dark and it wasn't our home marina, so we didn't have to suffer any shame.
The friend goes inside the boat and fucks the girl. The boyfriend stands on the dock at the side of the boat waiting. The rest of us sat on the fly bridge, deliberately not engaging with the boyfriend.
When he's finished, he comes up on the deck and said the girl asks if anybody else wants to go. We all declined