Bars, clubs, sex shows, sex shops, sex internet bars, and inside them - bright show programs... There is a place to let loose! The most famous, of course, is the «Raymond Revue Bar», which often makes show business news - the Beatles, Sir Elton John and various other stars of show business, film and television visited it in their time (entrance - $5, drink - $3-10). But no matter what any of these establishments is called, the key word for them, a kind of password, is sex. And this picture is not only in Soho. In London there are many establishments somehow connected with sex - on Wardor Street, Compton Street, Little Newport Street... And in my opinion, the guardians of sexual morality are wrong to call England a country of triumphant homosexuality - there is plenty of sex of all kinds and for everyone here.
I state with responsibility (having lived in London for quite a long time): in terms of innovation on the love front, the United Kingdom has been ahead of the whole planet for more than a decade. Moreover, I note that the British, without having discovered anything new in this area, have developed almost to 'industrial scale' absolutely all innovations of the sex industry. And while statesmen have been debating for several centuries the status, rights and duties of night butterflies, the country indulges in refined debauchery on a truly gigantic scale.
Most priestesses of love in England are not registered and are not representatives of the first ancient profession. This circumstance, however, does not prevent amorous young ladies from paying taxes. And how could it be otherwise? Even businessmen who rob millions of people daily sometimes pay them! It is for non-payment of taxes, not for anything else, that frolicsome girls risk being held accountable. From time to time, policemen make raids on neighborhoods where women await their clients in apartments literally to every taste - from beauties or monsters whose weight is measured in centners, to, for example, girls with amputated limbs... After all, clients have different tastes, and you want to please everyone. True, the police behave more than correctly: by law, policemen have no right to interrupt the act of love and can wait for hours under the door, listening to voluptuous oohs and aahs. By the way, according to the rules of the 13th century, knights had the right to make love without taking off their armor: truly, 'if tomorrow is war, if tomorrow is a campaign'. But that is beside the point.
The work of priestesses of love is also regulated by complex laws that are dangerous to violate. In addition to non-payment of taxes, they can be prosecuted for... harassment! The meaning of this state provision is difficult to understand. Probably it consists in the fact that girls of easy virtue can make eyes at you, demonstrate 'their personal charms' and even (!!!) 'professionalism'. The law is not interested in exactly how they will do it. But all these actions can be performed only at a distance of no less than three feet and five inches. Touching passers-by is not allowed. By law, a client must use the services of prostitutes on the basis of 'informed consent, in sound mind and memory'. Such a 'masterpiece' of English legislative thought.
Since the mid-90s to this day, people of frankly non-traditional sexual orientation have flourished in London, namely adherents of the views of the Marquis de Sade. Saturday in London is considered the day of sadomasochists and fetishists. Tradition, how could we do without it? Like five o'clock - the famous English tea drinking at five in the evening. On Saturdays, thousands and thousands of themed parties are held, announcements of which can be found in city newspapers and... phone booths. Yes, yes, in those very famous red telephone booths that were the calling cards of the British capital. With the development of mobile communications, they almost ceased to be used for their intended purpose and became peculiar centers of sex information. Here you can find not only advertising leaflets, announcements and business cards with more than tempting offers, but also photographs of half-naked and naked white and black beauties. Let him who says this is not an innovation in the sexual sphere throw a stone at me!
There is plenty of advertising for sexual services and erotic entertainment in the press, and not only in the private press, but also in the state press, such as Daily Sport. The cost of services of a working woman of the oldest profession who advertises in the newspaper is about 35-50 pounds (that is, $50-80). Well, of course, there are many special publications. Thus, the famous English international magazine Forum, which can be bought everywhere for 4 pounds ($6), is a good quarter filled with such advertisements, promotional modules, as well as confessional letters from women of Balzac and post-Balzac age, eager to warm, caress, and cuddle mainly young men.
Perhaps this is the most paradoxical sexual innovation of recent times! Dating magazines are full of advertisements that yesterday would have interested mainly psychologists, sexologists or sex pathologists: 'Your mommy is waiting for a call! No one but your mommy...' etc. Or: 'Drop by your grandmother (115-80-100), she will sing you a lullaby and make it sweet.' And this is not a cunning advertising move to attract a client. Sexual services are indeed offered by those ladies who are 'berries again...' and, so to speak, natural grannies of the British market of pleasures. And these services are a big hit!
In addition to female escort services, male ones have become widespread recently. Wealthy business ladies often do not have time to arrange their personal lives. That is why agencies offering men for sexual services have multiplied. True, sometimes it does not come to sex, because more and more often businesswomen order such a handsome man simply for going out into society. And these are not always single ladies. 'It happens that a husband drinks or is badly brought up,' a mistress of a male escort agency condescendingly explains. Yes, apparently the English gentleman is becoming smaller if it is shameful to be seen with him in public!
Features of communication between the sexes among different peoples are determined by cultural traditions. The English consider French women promiscuous, and the French consider English women promiscuous. Why? Simply because in England and France a kiss has a different meaning. For the French, it means nothing. Already at a second meeting, it is proper to peck just a pleasant person on both the cheek and the lips. In England, however, it is a different matter. There, a kiss speaks of genuine feeling. It is evidently because of these differences that the English consider French women depraved and sexually expressive: "What a way to kiss a barely acquainted person!" The French, in turn, cannot understand English women: "One kiss and she is already undressing!"
As for the latest innovations, British legislators have not yet made up their minds. They somehow take it for granted that a prostitute is, after all, a woman. What to do with a man is unclear. In England, it is officially permitted to engage in "natural" sex, from which children hypothetically may be born, from the age of 16. And from 18, do what you want – even engage in same-sex love. But whether a man may engage in prostitution is not clarified in the law. Therefore, it is officially considered that a man providing escort services accompanies a lady, converses with her, and protects her. For this (and only for this) he is paid money, and sex is a voluntary matter, so it is not included in the price.
And lastly. F. M. Dostoevsky considered Englishwomen the most attractive women in the world. The writer came to this conclusion long before any sexual revolutions. How did he discern, under the cold mask of a Puritan, a hot and passionate nature? A classic!