Seeing escorts before the internet

[AlphaPussyLicker69]

Hi guys,

I have been wondering about this for quite some time after getting into this hobby but how did you go about contacting an escort before the internet was a thing?

 

[Real Sonny Burnett]

The Georgia Straight and West Ender.

 

[riley_banks]

There used to be more ads in newspapers like the Straight.. there still are a few..

 

[masterpoonhunter]

There used to be more ads in newspapers like the Straight.. there still are a few..

And I used phone booths to make the calls.

 

[Buddyguy66]

And I used phone booths to make the calls.

Lol. There's a picture!

 

[5knuckleshuffle]

Who remembers the buy&sell?

 

[Big_Guy_Rye]

Section in the Yellow Pages used to have full page spread advertisements for various agencies.

 

[JackRyder]

Who remembers the buy&sell?

Yes, Vaguely lol , but my memories are fading. Ah, the good old days eh.

 

[masterpoonhunter]

The Buy and Sell yes and the YP's - ads under Body Rub. The local news papers too, always a few ads that were bonafide mixed in with the garage sales. The thing about those days, there were no scams. It was the pooner and the provider, on the phone, cutting the deal, making arrangements. Maybe not the good old days but those days were certainly good enough. Mind you the bar scene then was also good so maybe it was the good old days after all.

 

[steverino]

In Victoria, Monday magazine ran the ads.

 

[justwannahavefun]

The buy and sell was the go to source for ads. I used to love driving downtown and cruising along Richards and Seymour looking for a couple of regulars or someone new that caught my attention. I also used to spend quite a bit of time on telephone chat lines. You used to have to weed through it but there was more than a few SP’s on there as well if no one else tickled my fancy.

 

[Lady Vanessa]

One of my fave topics to discuss, because I lived in this era, before it became so "easy" to be a prostitute in the age of the internet. Bath houses, classified ads and hoe strolls, with us heaux's carrying pagers for the great regular clientele. Sex trade was scarier and yet so much more exciting!!
I recently was asked to speak about Nuru massage and it turned into more of a discussion about sex work, before the internet and I barely touched the surface, due to time management. podcast
I surely have stories and memories for days.....stay tuned for an MLV novel in my golden years.

 

[Bridge]

It was the casual and discrete read of the last few pages of Monday Magazine in the corner of the library ......

 

[felixthecat]

how did you go about contacting an escort before the internet was a thing?

I once borrowed a copy of Paying for It by Chester Brown from one of my favorite SPs.

It is set in that era: pre-mobile, pre-internet ads.

 

[vanperb]

I once borrowed a copy of Paying for It by Chester Brown from one of my favorite SPs.

It is set in that era: pre-mobile, pre-internet ads.

I remember reading it. It was wild trip down memory lane. *Calling* SP's from a phone booth to ask their prices. Looking at newspapers for ads in the personal section. Just blindly going to an address with no real idea who is behind that door other than perhaps "blonde".

 

[angry anderson]

Used to prowl Whitechapel on foggy November nights.

 

[westwoody]

The Penthouse always had really nice ladies who would approach you. Later on Gary Taylor’s as well.
Perfect system since you could check each other out a bit before committing. Also the bouncers kept track of who the ladies left with so it was a bit safer for them.

 

[rampart]

I remember about 20 years ago when I had a business which I advertised in the Yellow Pages. I had the same account rep for about 8 years and then one year I got a new rep. I just happened to be close to their main office one day and decided to drop off my new ad copy. The rep was out on a call so I ended up talking to the senior manager. I asked him what happened to my other account rep, if she had moved on as she was so good with my account. The senior manager told me that their had been complaints from some of the reps that the ones that had the Escort & Pizza ads had it too easy since they were mostly full page runs and so not much work to fill up those two sections(which had the most pages). So to make it fair they decided to move the reps around the book so too speak. It was always Buy & Sell for me but sometimes the WestEnder.

 

[pussy lover]

And I used phone booths to make the calls.

Did you ever run into CK?

 

[badbadboy]

And I used phone booths to make the calls.

I remember banking weekly and adding a roll of quarters to my cash requirements. This was all pre-1995 when I got my first cellphone. The irony is paranoia (Pathetic losers in accounting) kept me from using my cell for years afterwards and I kept pumping quarters for a few more years.