- Gold Coast Escort Review Dated Added: Wed Oct 01 2008 Submitted by: Roger
Black Orchid Bliss
12 Greg Chappell Dve
Burleigh Heads,
Gold Coast Qld Australia 4220
07-5522 1400
Had a girl named Brooke. Works Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri during the day. Blond about 25. Only allows 45 min sessions maximum, but offers extras kissing $50 or eating pussy $50 or both for $80. $210 for the 45 mins
(Review # 24820)
- Cairns Escort Review Dated Added: Sat Mar 22 2008 Submitted by: Punter
Cains QLD.
Another disappointed punter in Cairns QLD, looking for hot Japanese pussy.
Bought the Cairns Post and looked in Personal- Exotic Relaxation.
The first girl I tried, her ad read: A Japanese Delight, 21yo, spunky, busty, hot, sexy, magic touch. 0432 791 371. I phoned first and she said $80 for half an hour massage and an extra $10 for blow job only with condom. She was at a set of apartments at No. 5 Water St. in the CBD. When you get there you phone her for the apartment number.
Having done this I met her and gave her $90 but then she did not want to do a blowjob so I took my money back. She was very average on looks and not busty and more like 27yo.
Next ad.. A Japanese Sweetie. Sensual magic touch 0415 387 123. Now when I phoned this girl she was also 21 and would do a condom blowjob for $100. She was at 191 Mcleod St just out of the CBD. Same thing when you are out the front of the apartment you ring to get her apartment number. I met her looks are just ok but small tits, I paid the $100. Just after this she turned into an absolute bitch, real sweet on the phone now I wanted my money back and get out of here.
I could touch her tits with my hands only no kissing licking or anything else she said that was extra. I could not believe the change in this whore, we were in the bedroom. Her age was closer to 30yo and she had scars and a fat tummy. It was just a blowjob/empty out. But I could not believe that she had teed up another punter while I was still with her. I was still getting dressed when he knocked on the door. I walked out the door passing the other guy. I just thought what a greedy fucking stuck up Asian whore/bitch.
This seems to be a common occurrence that they lie about there age and everything else as well. Like mermaid, new in town, fresh, student, tourist, kissable, angel, Barbie doll.
Don’t be fooled they are all lying whores that are rejects from their own country.
(Review # 22744)
- Brisbane Escort Review Dated Added: Wed Feb 21 2007 Submitted by: BE
Hi all, to get good sex with hot Asian girls for a good price in Brisbane check out 777 mains road in Kangaroo Point. It is Queensland Motel. I rang a couple of numbers from the local newspapers and noted that the address I was given was the same so I decided to check it out. Almost every room has a hot babe how is ready to take you to bed for a price.
I knocked on a couple of doors and then made a selection on a Japanese girl who was 19, just above 4 feet, slightly chubby but not fat, firm b or c cup tits with puffy nips (wore a 34C bra) and best smile. She asked for $100 for half an hour but I bargained and ended up paying $75. We started of with some oral and then right into pounding her.
I tried many positions, starting of in doggie. Then I got on top of her and then she on top of me which she seemed to enjoy till I exploded. This was one of the very few hookers that I have come across that was actually turned on with her nipples hard most of the time and her pussy was extremely wet. It was a real girlfriend experience. (Review # 17482)
- Albury Massage Parlor Dated Added: Sat Feb 03 2007 Submitted by: Count Jim
Hard to say what this place is called - they certainly don't advertise it on the building, and in the Yellow Pages there are no less than FIVE 'adult services' listed at 797 Drome Street (Centerfolds, Millionaires Agency, Club 797, Sensuality Plus, and Uni-Girls). Presumably they've bought up a monopoly in Albury.
Anyway, I went there for the first time. It's a fairly discreet place (blink and you'll miss it) in a commercial/industrial area just opposite the airport. I arrived at about 5pm and was greeted by a friendly manageress in her fifties. She explained that she only had two girls working, and showed me through. The bedrooms were tasteful and basic, with shower and hot-tub.
There was a rather annoying porn video playing on the wall-mounted TV, which I promptly turned off. The two girls came in turn and introduced themselves - a rather quiet, average-looking African girl, and a more genial, average-looking Aussie girl with a voice like a rusty saw, both mid twenties. Neither of these took my fancy, so asked the manageress when the change of shift was. She told me she had about 12 or 14 girls coming on at 9pm, so off I went.
I went back at about 10 to 9 - same friendly, polite manageress, same tasteful bedroom, and same annoying porn. One by one, four girls came in and introduced themselves; again, nothing special looks-wise, two Aussies, one perhaps Indian, and one older woman who sounded South African. Three of them were very perfunctory in their introductions, and only one seemed remotely friendly or interested in me as a customer.
Although very nice, she was a little plump and a little older, and not really my type. So I sat back and waited - and waited - and waited. After about 20 minutes, I thought I'd been forgotten, so ventured out to find the manageress, who seemed slightly surprised to see me. I apologized for being so fussy, and asked where the rest of the 12-14 girls were. She said a group of four had 'phoned to say they'd arrive late, at 9.30pm; but one of these was absolutely stunning, so if I'd like to wait. Although still polite, her manner seemed slightly less friendly, and I was starting to feel like an 'awkward customer'. About 15 minutes later she showed me back into the room and said she had another four girls to meet me. Then in came a gorgeous, tall, slender blonde, who introduced herself with a friendly smile as Imogen. She left, and next in was - a man! What did I want, he wanted to know; what about the other three girls, I asked; still not here, he told me, I could wait some more, but he can't promise me when they'll be in. It felt a bit like they'd 'sent in the muscle' to get me to make my mind up. Fortunately I was very happy with the lovely Imogen; so for one hour I paid $100 to the man and $120 to Imogen, and away we went.
Preliminaries consisted of an inspection of my private parts (presumably to make sure I don't have lice or a discharge), and a much-needed shower (me only). Chatting to Imogen as we got naked, I learned that she normally worked in Sydney, and was just passing through Albury for three days on a 'working holiday' down to Melbourne and then Tasmania. So I won't review Imogen in detail here - suffice it to say that we had a wonderful time.
She has a beautiful face, gorgeous body, made pleasant conversation, and gave a wonderfully relaxing massage. I was slightly disappointed that she didn't join me in the shower afterwards; but after everything else she'd done for me, I had no complaints! Overall I had a very pleasant evening (eventually); but as this was entirely due to the lovely but alas temporary Imogen, I would have to say that I was a little disappointed with the establishment itself. I doubt I'll be back - I'm not sure I'll be so lucky next time. (Review # 17301)
- Sydney Massage Parlor Dated Added: Wed Jan 04 2006 Submitted by: Islandboysemen
If your foriegn city and in need of a rub & tug as we aussies call it then Sydney is the place outside of Melbourne. For 35AUD you can have the best the hand job by clothed ladies (asian and aussie). this is called a relax massage. You can access these ladies in the health and beauty section of the daily telegragh or other broadsheets. If you want more full service suppliers who may be private or like mentioned in this site an organisation, for example 1 blackwell st surry hills where the ladies are south east asian chinese and the serice begins at 120 for half an hour. Sex is relatively value for money in Sydney. being gracious is ones biggest negotiating tool not the dollars, as you can get it cheaper and better service if you want it on the regular basis, which is simple economics for those sensible. regards
(Review # 13592)
- Hobart, Tasmania Massage Parlor Dated Added: Tue Jan 03 2006 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Anger as Tassie turns off red light--early January, 2006.
THE state's tough new legislation banning brothels came into force yesterday.
Under the Sex Industry Offences Act 2005, it is an offence to own, operate or run a sexual services business.
Attorney-General Judy Jackson said yesterday the legislation clarified and strengthened the law against people who sought to control or profit from sex workers.
"It is now an offence to own, operate or be in day-to-day control of a sexual services business," she said.
"Anyone who does so may be liable for a penalty of up to $80,000, imprisonment for up to eight years, or both."
Similarly, anyone who pays for sexual services in a brothel will be liable for a fine of $10,000 or a jail term of up to one year, or both.
As a result, people who work in brothels will lose their jobs.
The receptionist at one Hobart brothel rang The Mercury last night to say she had lost her job.
The woman said she knew of six others who were not sex workers but like her worked in the industry, who would also lose their jobs.
"I'm furious," she said.
(Review # 13578)
- Glenorchy and Hobart, Tasmania Street Action Dated Added: Tue Jan 03 2006 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Brothel laments forced closure
DODGY brothelkeepers will reap the benefits of Tasmania's new anti-brothel laws, according to the owner of one of Hobart's long-established brothels.
Pamela, operator of Models Escorts in Glenorchy, has been forced to close her business of 15 years after the new laws came into effect on New Year's Day.
"It means the dodgy ones will be the only ones that keep operating," she said yesterday. "The criminal element will continue to run just like they always have. It's the better established and better regulated businesses that have been closed down."
Under legislation passed late last year, it is now illegal to own, operate or be in day-to-day control of a sexual services business.
Anyone breaking the laws faces a fine of up to $80,000, up to eight years in prison or both.
And anyone paying for sex in a brothel could be fined $10,000 or face a jail term of one year, or both.
But Tasmania Police will take a softly, softly approach to enforcing the new laws. [sic]
Inspector Glen Ball said last night that because of the significant penalties, intelligence needed to be gathered on commercial operations.
"Prostitution is not an offence if it is done singly or in twos," Insp Ball said.
"We will not be rushing into anything. We will be taking a cautious approach to enforcing the law."
Models Escorts is one of Hobart's better known brothels and Pamela said the business had always had a good rapport with police and other regulatory authorities.
"But we had to because we're basically the only one they can find and keep an eye on," she said. "I've been in this industry for 20 years and even I don't know where most of the other brothels are around Hobart, that's how invisible they are."
Pamela said eight people, including herself, were left jobless after the laws forced her to close her business on Sunday.
But she said the majority of sex workers would not quit the industry and would instead choose to work from home or in one or two-girl businesses that would not qualify as brothels, leaving them vulnerable to problems they were protected from when working in a proper establishment.
The underground criminal element would continue to operate secret brothels.
"We've always been visible and up-front with our business -- we are what we are but the law is the law," Pamela said.
"Most of the girls have nothing to fall back on. Some are very skilled in other areas but they really enjoy this job and this legislation falls into the hands of the dodgy operators."
She predicted there would be an increase in abuse and assault of sex workers by customers and unscrupulous brothelkeepers as the industry was forced underground.
"And we used to have a good relationship with Disability Services, but where will they go now?" Pamela said.
Yesterday Models Escorts was still receiving phone calls from would-be customers.
Attorney-General Judy Jackson said parliament had decided this was the legislation it wanted and it was up to the police to enforce laws.
"The Government tried to legalise brothels but this was not possible because of opposition in the Legislative Council," Ms Jackson said.
[Credit for finding this info first to Radiate76]
(Review # 13577)
- Other Dated Added: Mon Jan 02 2006 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
PROSTITUTION AND THE LAW IN AUSTRALIA, a nice little summary from www.sex.com.au
Prostitution is legal or acceptable in some form or another in all Australian states. In some states brothels are legal, but not in others. In some states brothels are illegal yet are tolerated by police and the Government. The following gives a rough guide of how each state differs:
NEW SOUTH WALES. Brothels are legal and are governed by local councils. Escort agencies are legal. Sole operator sex workers are legal (however their abodes can be deemed a brothel under planning laws.)
VICTORIA.Brothels are legal. Escorts and escort agencies are legal. Single operator sex workers working from home are legal.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Brothels are not legal but are allowed to exist under a ”Brothel Containment Policy". Escort Agencies are not legal but are allowed to operate. Sole sex workers are legal providing they register with the police.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Brothels and escort agencies are both illegal. Sole operator sex workers are legal but must only work as escorts.
QUEENSLAND. Both brothels and escort agencies are illegal but appear to be tolerated. Single operator sex workers are legal where the worker is working on their own.
TASMANIA.Brothels and escort agencies are both illegal. Sole operator sex workers are legal.
NORTHERN TERRITORY. Brothels are illegal. Escort Agencies are legal but escorts must register with police. Sole operator sex workers are legal but they can't work from home and must register with police.
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY. Brothels are legal in industrial areas. Escorts are legal if licensed. Sole operator sex workers are legal if licensed, and must work alone.
(Review # 13561)
- Geelong, Victoria Massage Parlor Dated Added: Mon Jan 02 2006 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
BROTHELS IN VICTORIA--GEELONG
Yes, FOUR brothels in Geelong, Victoria, and yet who has even heard of the place? If you have more info other than this, please contribute.
Fantasy Lane (03) 5221 0429, Lorraine Starr (03) 5229 9456, Merlin's of Geelong (03) 5229 1335, Ultimates of North Shore (03) 5278 6111
(Review # 13550)
- Queensland Street Action Dated Added: Thu Dec 22 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Police are investigating allegations Asian crime rings are bringing young Japanese women to Queensland to work illegally as prostitutes.
The Queensland Police Service's Prostitution Enforcement Task Force Unit said it was investigating claims that Japanese women were being brought to the state - some under force - on tourist visas.
"Police are aware of allegations concerning organised Asian prostitution and work closely with other state and federal agencies in monitoring and investigating any information received in that regard," a police spokeswoman said.
The Sunshine Coast Daily newspaper reported that Asian crime syndicates were allegedly running organised prostitution services on the Sunshine Coast.
Police said other parts of Queensland from Cairns to the southern border had also experienced increases in Asian prostitute numbers.
The Sunshine Coast Daily alleged that young Japanese women were regularly being brought into Queensland on three month tourist visas to work as prostitutes.
Some women were allegedly being forced to work and returned home shortly before their visas expired, the newspaper said.
The number of advertisements, in the paper's personal services section, promoting young Japanese women had risen in recent months, with most claiming to be in their late teens or early 20s.
Queensland University of Technology associate lecturer from the School of Public Health, Charlotte Woodward, said it was extremely difficult to gain information about the alleged prostitution service.
"Illegal forms of prostitution are difficult to infiltrate and get information about, in terms of service providers such as health organisations, because of their attachment to criminality," Ms Woodward said.
The allegations follow an incident in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, where two Korean women pleaded guilty to prostitution offences last week.
The Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard the women had run out of money and turned to prostitution to fund their trip.
Covert police officers caught the women after they advertised their services in a local paper.
(Review # 13384)
- Adelaide Escort Review Dated Added: Sat Dec 10 2005 Submitted by: simonsays
I have been living in Adelaide for 4 years now, and really know the ins and outs of the best places to visit in this beautiful little city. I have to say that some of the experiences I have had in the past month have been incredible, and certainly worth sharing with interested travellers and locals alike. In fact, I need to start slowing down because I am becoming somewhat addicted.
In the city at 141 Wright Street is a tiny little house that blends in discreetly to the local surrounds. You don't suffer from the sleazey feeling associated with red lights, dark back entrances, etc. when you walk up to the front door. I always visit in the daytime, Saturday mornings are best. After pressing a buzzer, you are led into a small bedroom with mirrors on the right-hand side of the bed. The hostess promptly tells you which girls are available and introduces you to them. None of the girls on my last visit were unattractive - mostly young, early 20's, all Australian.
The girl I picked, Mickey, was a standout. Her legs were perfectly toned in a sexy high pair of blue stilletto's... her whole body was, in a word....amazing. Later, she told me she was a trained ballet instructor. With a body like that, I was not surprised. WOW. Mickey cost $200 for a whole hour, and she quickly let me touch her and caress her. She slowly undressed, revealing a toned waist with belly-piercing, and little full tits that I was allowed to suck on. Her ass was perfect. She let me lick her everywhere, and genuinely seemed turned on by my tongue. All her clothes came off (except the heels), and she let me fuck her with my tongue until she came quite hard, moaning loudly!!
Mickey was more than happy to please me orally. She teased me with perfect technique, looking up at me at just the right moments. After I nearly blew my load, she spun around and sat on my cock. We stood up, and I fucked her standing from behind, while getting off on the image of us in the large mirror in front of me. I will never forget the 30 minutes of sex we had all over the room untill I came harder than I have ever experienced... her perfect legs and blue heels wrapped tight around me. Mickey's skill, touch, giggles and that body, left me breathless. I'm going back tomorrow... she told me she's wearing stockings... omg!!!
A special mention to Jasmine, similar in size and body type to the perfect tiny Mickey, but blonde. Not as toned (how many girls are ballet dancers!!!), but Jasmine loves her work also. Jasmine told me this was her hobby... she did have a real job. Jasmine's taste in lingerie was classy and she too kept the heels on, and let me screw her in any conceivable position. It didn't cost extra to lick her pussy, either. At $200, no extras, it's great value.
I thought Jasmine was as good as it gets.... but Mickey wins. Mickey: 11/10 looks, 11/10 service, 11/10 body. The best body on any girl I have been with in my life. I like petite and toned... maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but I want another cup. Jasmine: 9/10 looks, 8/10 service, 9/10 body. (Love the lingerie!!) Topshelf Escorts 1300 552 656. I used to use Wild Temptations escorts, but the quality of their girls has dropped. Look them up on www.hotlineescorts.com.au - who knows? There might be some new chicks I haven't met. I'm more than happy with my tiny sexy ballerina.
(Review # 13254)
- Townsville Massage Parlor Dated Added: Fri Sep 16 2005 Submitted by:
I've visited Australian Maid a couple of times but the best sex I've had has been the last two visits. I saw a lovely lady named Cleo. Mid 20's, probably a size 14, and blonde. She gave me a girlfriend like service - hugs, kissing and an amazing blowjob. She likes cowgirl style and rides like a demon. She informed me, "some girls do it for money. I just love to fuck and be fucked!" I recommend her highly.
(Review # 12689)
- Sydney Massage Parlor Dated Added: Thu Aug 25 2005 Submitted by: Loi
There is a small massage parlour with an entrance not in Military Road itself but from just north of the car parks at the rear, between the public library and the Council offices. It does not seem to have a reception area, but the rooms are clean, though small (good mirrors, however).
Malin is a very beautiful petite, typical Thai girl, with a lithe brown body, deliciously firm small breasts, lovely legs right up to her armpits, and a wonderfully firm ass that fits beautifully into the palms of the hands. She gives a really good erotic massage (too good for me, on my first visit - I came well before the thirty minutes were up!) and, stripping naked from the beginning, is careful to brush your back with her breasts as she massages you. She encourages you to touch her, and loves her small, shaved cunt being gently stroked. She's an experience I've been delighted to have, and will have again, and at $60 for 30 minutes, one of the great bargains of NSW!
(Review # 12545)
- Shepparton Massage Parlor Dated Added: Tue Aug 09 2005 Submitted by:
Shepparton Brothel to open!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yay!! Finally a palce that's open 24/7! I live in the New York metropolitan area, and have the shitty stores around me close after 9pm http://news.mcmedia.com.au/story.as...200508095450790
Hmmmm.... for some reason it's not letting me copy the article, Brothel plans set for Public Display - Sex will be on sale 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the address mentioned is 27 Apollo Drive. Read the article in the link for more info.
(Review # 12404)
- Kalgoorlie Travel Report Dated Added: Sun Aug 07 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Mary-Anne’s dream to rebuild The Old House began in 1990 on her first visit to the sex capital of the world, Amsterdam. While in Amsterdam, she went to the Sex Museum and was amazed by the variety of tourists it attracted. She was inspired to build a working tourist brothel. Redeveloping The Old House was a lengthy process. It took Mary-Anne three years and a lot of noise to obtain council approval to rebuild her bordello. The new six million dollar Langtrees 181 was designed to cater for working girls, clients and tourists. Air-conditioned, plush and roomy, the reworked brothel is still firmly rooted in the past. The rooms chronicle the history of prostitution in Kalgoorlie from the first tent brothels to the glittering Madam’s Suite of 2002. In the historical Coolgardie Tent Room, a sheet of corrugated iron from The Old House decorates a mural. Langtrees 181 gives an insight into the sex industry of today and yesteryear. You can take a virtual tour by visiting our website at www.langtrees.com
(Review # 12366)
- Kalgoorlie Travel Report Dated Added: Sun Aug 07 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Here is a nice little report about Kalgoorlie, with an emphasis on beer and brothels.................. Kalgoorlie - The Heart of Western Australia - It was with much excitement that AustralianBeers.com visited the legendary Kalgoorlie town of outback Western Australia. Like Mount Isa in Queensland, much has been said about the drinking and other prowess of the men of Kal. Many stories have been told. Myths also abound about the women of Kal: the barmaids (or skimpies as they are known), who do more than just serve beer, and the local whores said to be trucked in by the dozen for the big functions. Tales are also told of the language and culture of Kal. Of how it represents a slice of the 'old' Australia. How it is a town time forgot. Hannan Street last century, Hannan Street Today. It was with a lifetime of such impressions that we drove in on a sizzling summer day. Temperatures close to 40. Not really knowing what would be fact and what would be fiction. We were there also, to be honest, with a little trepidation. Every Australian male loves to be an Aussie. To drink hard. To swear. To be a bit rough around the edges. To live the ocker. But most of them occasionally scrub themselves up, put on a suit or a pair of slacks, and go to work. Or act pleasantly in front of their girlfriend's mother. We were a little scared that the men of Kal were actually living the legend. They were what they were. And if they didn't like the look of you, standing out like a sore thumb, speaking a little differently, dressed a little too well for their liking - well then, they might kill you or make you wish they would. Australia was, and is, a hard land. With hard men. Especially in Kal. So with all these thoughts, we drove up Hannan Street - the main street of Kal - looking for a place to start drinking. To test the waters, so to speak. Our first impression was that the town was old, by Australian standards. And at least architecturally, not much had changed since 1894 when the town was built. A government publication, Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie "Our Golden Heritage" describes the town back then (and presumably what they consider to be their Golden Heritage): In the predominantly male population, sports and gambling were the favoured activities. Most social life centred around the hotels and in the early 1900's Kalgoorlie had 44 hotels.... Prostitution flourished. As we drove slowly up the street, we viewed the locals as they went about their own daily routine. Men walked past, obviously blind - off their nut - as they strolled from one pub to the next. We almost hit one man as he staggered across the intersection. Thanks to our astuteness, he made it to the side of the road, where his wallet fell out. "Mate! Mate!". He turned around. "You've dropped your wallet!". His head swivelled slowly as he considered our words. The penny dropped, and he clumsily retraced his steps and picked it up. He continued on to the side of our car. We considered winding up the window but he stuck his head in. "Thanks cobber", he whispered, before retracting himself and making a beeline for the closest watering hole. We had arrived. We continued driving at our tourist pace. We saw several aboriginals holding what appeared to be aerosol cans and inhaling the fumes. The youngest, who made some effort to hide his can under his shirt, could have only been 10. Others sat under trees in the middle of the road. What chance did they have. The least of Kalgoorlie's Attractions. Eventually we got to the end of the street, faced with what was proclaimed as the World's Tallest Bin. We had no other choice. We had to drink our way from one end of the historic Hannan Street to the other. It was our obligation as Australians, as beer drinkers, and as AustralianBeers.com reviewers.
(Review # 12363)
- Kalgoorlie Travel Report Dated Added: Sun Aug 07 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Prostitution Museum Prompts Protests. A small but vocal number of Christians on the city council and elsewhere are protesting the establishment of a museum of prostitution in Kalgoorlie. Construction began last month after the council gave approval on a 7-to-6 vote. The proposal had been defeated earlier. The museum will memorialize the brothels set up in the western Australia desert for gold miners a century ago. Kalgoorlie is about 250 miles inland from Perth, Western Australia. Nowadays, the city of 35,000, rather than being dominated by adventurous male transients, is home to many married couples who want a stable place to raise young children. Although prostitution is legal in Australia, Christians and family-minded residents say the new development violates a state "containment" policy that limits brothel activity. Robert Hicks, president of the Kalgoorlie branch of the Australian Family Association, is preparing for further action if a dozen small rooms in construction plans are used not for a nostalgic look at prostitution but for modern-day practitioners. "We don't agree that even contained prostitution should be supported," Hicks says. "It has adverse effects on the physical and spiritual health of individuals, on relationships, and the whole community." The brothel museum retains the name Club 181, an establishment of the original prostitute belt of the "golden mile" of Kalgoorlie. Mary-Anne Kenworthy, the madam who now runs Club 181 from Perth, says the museum will boost tourism. It will contain paintings and photos of prostitutes' garments and situations. In addition, stables -- the original, open-fronted shacklike rooms facing the street in which prostitutes displayed their wares and their charms.
(Review # 12360)
- Kalgoorlie Travel Report Dated Added: Sun Aug 07 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Fascinating tales, true and tall, abound in Kalgoorlie, early August, 2005. Some residents of the area see outback city, with its bawdy reputation and colorful history, as the 'real Australia'. I'm sitting in the parlor of a brothel in the far outback of Australia, sipping Earl Grey tea with the transgender former City Council member who runs the place. Do you think it's true, I ask, that a then-future U.S. president fell in love with a shady local dance hall girl, then ran off, brokenhearted, to China? "It's a lovely story, isn't it?" says Leigh Varis Beswick, who until a 1986 visit to a doctor in Singapore was a guy named Harry Jon. "I know a lot of American scholars think it's rubbish. But we know it's true. Or at least we want it to be true." The story of a young Herbert Hoover and the Palace Hotel barmaid is just one of dozens of tales - true and tall - that make the rounds in Kalgoorlie, the sun-scorched mining town at the far west end of what the British called "the ghastly void." Kalgoorlie is the odds-on choice for the title of oddest town in "Oz," the nickname those fond-of-phonetics Australians have given their country-continent. To be sure, there's competition around the country: People live underground in Coober Pedy to get out of the scorching heat. Miners in Lightning Ridge still "toss the sausage," a game involving throwing lighted sticks of dynamite. In Port Arthur, contestants fling huge tunas in a kind of aquatic hammer throw. At Anglesea Golf Course, if you hit one of the dozens of kangaroos hopping on the fairways, the ball is in play - unless it goes in the kangaroo's pouch and hops away. But Kalgoorlie can make its case for being the capitol of off-kilter. The horse that found a fortune in gold. The Golden Mile. The Super Pit. Thousands of missing fingers. Skylab. The Scarlet Mile. Barmaids and their "skimpies." Two-up. The bicycling mayor. And of course all that overheated business involving the American bloke who later moved into the White House. "This is the real Australia," says Ron Berryman, a local economic development official. "It hasn't been Americanized. It hasn't been homogenized. No B.S. A lot of people who live here still work in the mines and drink in the pubs. I guess you Americans would call them rednecks." Taxi driver Lisa Wilson is one of the many transplants from around Oz who finds Kalgoorlie to her liking. "It's a town of opportunity, a party town," she says. "I'm in my early 20s, drive a cab and own my own business - a fish and chips shop. I don't think I could do that in Perth or Sydney. I love it here." The Irish influence - A good place to start a visit to Kalgoorlie is the Museum of the Goldfields, which tells the town's first odd tale: How in 1893 Irishman Paddy Hannan was riding across the outback when his horse threw a shoe. Forced to stop for the night, Hannan came across a gold nugget. More than a century later, 50 million ounces of gold have been pulled from out of "The Golden Mile." Paddy's the gaunt guy in the statue in the center of town. He's got his name on one of Kalgoorlie's main streets, too. The latest incarnation of gold fever is Kalgoorlie's biggest draw: the Super Pit, a 3-mile-long, nearly 1-mile-wide and 1,000-foot-deep gash in the earth. Floodlit so work can continue at night, it's so big that from the observation ramp on its rim, the two-story-tall trucks moving rock up the ramps below look like tiny bugs. Mining the fourth biggest gold find in world history takes its toll - Kalgoorlie has the dubious distinction of being the city with the largest percentage of residents in the world who have lost a digit, according to an Australian government health report. When Kalgoorlie wasn't finding valuable metals, valuable metals were finding Kalgoorlie. Remember Skylab? The spacecraft was supposed to fall harmlessly into the empty Australian outback in 1979. That would be Kalgoorlie. The locals literally rolled out a red carpet to haul a 6-foot-long charred chunk of the famous space debris to a place of honor inside City Hall. Following the gold - The discovery of gold brought miners. Miners had money with few places to spend it. So prostitutes and gamblers were sure to follow. In places like Deadwood and Tombstone in the United States, you can see displays about the old days. In Kalgoorlie, the old days aren't quite over. The Scarlet Mile is the name given Hay Street, where 16 brothels once lined both sides of the road. A trip to Kalgoorlie is still a rite of passage for some Australian males, a story told in the film "Love in Limbo," starring a young Russell Crowe. Most brothels were rows of simple wood-sided rooms called "starting stalls" barely big enough for a bed. One, called Mona's, recently was converted into a backpackers' hostel. Only three brothels remain. Though technically illegal, they have been given a wink-wink, nod-nod OK for over 100 years. Langtrees 181 is the biggest and brashest. It offers three daily "non-interactive" tours, which showcase its Barbary Coast-meets-Imperial Rome decor. There's also an ATM machine for the other kind of customers. "It was a very unique experience," says John Kronik, a Cornell University professor from Ithaca, New York, on vacation with his wife, Eva. "We thought, are they kidding, is this real? A bordello tour? But that's Australia." Kronik laughs at the fact that they had taken advantage of the senior discount: US$20 for the normally US$25 tour. While some in the city oppose prostitution, others embrace it as a longtime facet of life. Varis Beswick, the brothel's madam, was once a City Council member (part of a colorful city government that for a time also included Paul Robson, the mayor known for riding a bicycle while wearing his ceremonial robes). She's also a member of a top city women's softball club. "Some people take us for who we are. Some people would like to see us gone," Varis Beswick says. "The do-gooders are trying to take all the fun out of Kalgoorlie." Tourists are drawn to the bawdy remnants of Kalgoorlie's past. As the city attracts more businessmen and families, there is a push to at least dampen if not stamp out some of the infamous aspects of Kalgoorlie's national reputation. "I'd be happy, just once, if I'd see a story about Kalgoorlie that didn't mention skimpies, brothels and two-up," says Berryman, whose job is to promote Kalgoorlie. "Something more than just a guys' town. Someday it will happen. But probably not anytime soon." 'Skimpies' getting scarce - Skimpies rival prostitution in making Kalgoorlie's national naughty reputation. But they have been getting harder to find. For many years, Kalgoorlie's dozens of bars would employ barmaids wearing G-strings and revealing tops. They were nicknamed "skimpies." A waitress would walk through the bar with a big jar in which patrons would toss US$2 tokens. When the jar was full, up came the top. Though this practice was once widespread, the number of waitresses willing to be skimpies has fallen to about a dozen, causing the Kalgoorlie Miner newspaper to report in early July on a winter "skimpy shortage." The causes: tighter police enforcement of anti-skimpy laws, a tight labor market, lack of heating in older bars, and miners who have become cheaper with their tips - which could top US$1,500 a week per skimpy. Two-up is pretty much gone, allowed only on ANZAC Day, the Australian national version of our Veterans Day. For decades, what looked like a partially roofed-in rodeo corral just outside of town served as the place to play two-up. The game involves betting on whether two coins thrown in the air with a paddle called a "kip" will come up heads. Occasional "no cash" versions of the game are allowed at charity events, and there's talk of a "two-up" school in town. The idea of a two-up school is evidence that local tourism officials know that the image of Kalgoorlie sells to foreign tourists and visitors from Australia's urbanized east. For Varis Beswick, part of that image is the legend of Herbert Hoover and the bar girl. "I don't think anyone can say for sure that it isn't true," she says with a twinkle in her eye. "I mean, after all, there is the mirror. And the poem." Kalgoorlie's alleged Herbert Hoover relics have a place of honor in the foyer of the Palace Hotel, a somewhat-ramshackle Victorian-era pub with guest rooms. I enter the Hoover shrine to find Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" blaring from the jukebox in the Diggers and Dealers bar. In the hallway is a massive mirror with a carved wood frame and next to it a reprint of a poem. They are people's evidence No. 1 and No. 2 for the truth of the tale. "And I spent my soul in kisses, crushed upon your scarlet mouth, Oh! My red-lipped, sun-browned sweetheart," part of the poem goes. This much everyone pretty much agrees on: Hoover, fresh out of engineering school at Stanford University, landed a job as a manager of the British-run mining company where he helped develop the Sons of Gwalia mine about 120 miles outside of Kalgoorlie. It was 1897, four years after Paddy Hannan's discovery and the Kalgoorlie area was booming with thousands of miners. Locals who love the beauty of the desert say Kalgoorlie is "a stone's throw from God's door." But Hoover thought otherwise, writing that it was a land of "red dust, black flies and white heat." Hoover would ride a camel, which is more suited to the harsh desert climate than a horse is. Water was scarce so sometimes he would bathe in beer. From here, things get a little foggy. Local legend has it that the uptight Hoover eventually succumbed to the loneliness of outback life and the lure of Kalgoorlie's debauched nightlife. They point to authenticated letters at Stanford University in which Hoover wrote his brother, Tad. "The barmaids are simply entrancing," Hoover wrote. "Their personal beauty and municipal influence is unquestioned. If you want the policeman who is the sole representative of Her Majesty's government, you have only to find the barmaid." Hoover was building himself a home in Gwalia when in late 1898, he left, less than two years after his arrival. The house in Gwalia is now a bed and breakfast filled with Hoover-era memorabilia. The Hoover story - Hoover biographers point out that he had been a roaring success in Australia - the mine would eventually generate US$135 million in today's dollars. Impressed, the company offered him a lucrative deal to go to China to develop mines. He sailed home to marry his college sweetheart and go off to make his fortune. But in Kalgoorlie, some say there's more to the story. Hoover had fallen in love with a barmaid at the Palace Hotel and left not for riches but because of a broken heart. Since barmaids in those days often did more than simply flip up their blouses for money, there was the suggestion that the future President was smitten with a possible "soiled dove." In 1933, the poem attributed to Hoover was first published in Australia. It and the huge mirror were said to be gifts sent to the barmaid long after he had returned to America: married, rich and a rising Republican Party star who was elected President in 1928 (he'd lose the office four years later, blamed for doing little to staunch the Great Depression). A few American historians and journalists have trekked to Kalgoorlie to check out the claims. One of Hoover's biographers, George Nash, called the poem and mirror a hoax. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William J. Coughlin, writing an article in the March-April 2000 edition of Stanford Magazine, also found little of substance. "Old men, like young men, sometimes do foolish things," Coughlin wrote. "But nothing in Hoover's papers suggest he did." But in a place where horses help find gold, sex-change patients become civic leaders, fingers are lost and fortunes are found, the idea that a man of high station might fall hopelessly in love with an outback bar girl doesn't seem far-fetched at all. On a cold night just before leaving town, I run into Varis Beswick and two of her "girls" strolling on Hannan Street "drumming up business." I tell her about the American historians and what they thought of the Hoover story. "Well, you would expect them to say that, wouldn't you?" she says. "The only man who knows the truth is dead, so he isn't talking."
(Review # 12340)
- Dubbo Massage Parlor Dated Added: Wed Jul 20 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
The red neon has come down from the window and council has threatened legal action, but the operator of Cobra Street's illegal brothel is keeping the front door open - and advertising new girls.
Earlier this month the Daily Liberal revealed Dubbo City Council had used a private investigator to infiltrate the brothel Tantallon in an attempt to gather enough evidence to shut the business down.
Last week the owner of the brothel was issued with warnings from both council and the real estate agent managing the property.
"We sent a letter to the owner and the occupier," council's general manager Mark Riley said.
"We asked them to show cause as to why the council should not proceed with legal action, given the premises is being used as a brothel."
Mr Riley would not be drawn on the nature of the evidence in council's possession, but he was confident the brothel would not be operating in the future.
"In council's opinion, the premises are being used as a brothel," he said.
Grahame Allan from Raine and Horne said his company had also taken action.
"We've just issued a letter to vacate," he said.
"We got a letter from the council that said the use of the property hasn't been approved by the council. They ascertained it was being used for other than residential purposes.
"They have 14 days to vacate the premises."
But the brothel's owner remains indifferent.
"It was entrapment," he said. "And it's bulls**t."
"A bloke has come down and met the girls, but there's no sex going on that I know of."
The owner said council has targeted him for seven years, and he maintained "I've never said I've offered sex".
He wouldn't discuss council's edict, but seemed set on defying the odds.
"I'll keep my place as an escort agency," he said.
"I might run it from there, I can run it from anywhere."
So defiant in fact, that it was only on Friday he placed advertisements for "Felicity", who is "affectionate" and "sexy", as well as "Kalese", described as "blonde and busty", and "big, bold and beautiful Misty".
The brothel, which is situated directly opposite a children's park, has caused headaches for its neighbouring motel owners and residents, who have complained about increased noise and "blokes coming and going 24-hours a day".
But the owner believes the brothel poses no threat.
"That's just a beat-up," he said.
"There's a four-lane highway right there - there's more danger crossing the road."
And as for the red neon?
"They were left over from the Christmas decorations."
Mr Riley said the brothel owner had seven days to respond to the council's letter before they took further action.
"Our options are to either seek a restraining order preventing the use of the premises (as) a brothel," he said.
"Or to go through the notices and orders procedure ... (where we) ultimately serve an order."
Mr Riley said it was too early to decide which way the council would proceed.
"We want to see the response, and we'll go from there."
(Review # 12110)
- Dubbo Massage Parlor Dated Added: Sat Jul 09 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Early July, 2005,
the cherry gets popped on the city of Dubbo, Australia.
An undercover sting has exposed an illegal brothel that has been operating in Dubbo for more than a year opposite a play park on Cobra Street.
'Tantallon' offers prospective clients "full sex" or "oral sex" on site and has remained in business despite official complaints more than 12 months ago to the council and the police.
Now the Daily Liberal understands Dubbo City Council has employed a private investigator in the past three weeks to infiltrate the brothel and gather the evidence needed to shut it down.
It seems the careful planning of the covert operation was behind the delay in the council's response to community complaints about the "escort agency" and fears it could lead to increased crime in the area.
Neighbour Therese Treloar said she was concerned about the "sort of people it attracts".
"Sometimes I worry if I'm here by myself," she said.
Tantallon was established before March last year at 111 Cobra Street, immediately opposite Elston Park.
But the business owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, has denied clients are offered sexual intercourse.
"It's not a brothel, it's an escort agency," he said.
But according to the neighbouring motel owners Richard and Kerrie Whale, the brown-brick dwelling with bright red neon in the window, is home to girls offering sex for cash.
"A month ago the madam running the place was going past wanting change of a $50 bill," Mr Whale said.
"She told us they were a brothel and they had development approval.
"We get trucks pulling up and leaving their motors running while they run in."
The motel owner on the other side, Glenn Coggins, had a similar experience.
"We had a young woman lean over the fence, she said, ‘you know what we do here, don't you?'" he said.
Mr and Mrs Whale said there were "blokes coming and going 24-hours a day" from the premises next door, and they were worried their motel was becoming associated with their neighbours.
"I was in (a shop) in town and the bloke asked me which motel was mine, and when I told him, he said, ‘you mean the one where the brothel is?'" Mrs Whale said.
On March 16 last year the Whales filed an official complaint with the council, the police and the real estate agents managing the property.
"We would like to bring to your attention an illegal brothel is trading at 111 Cobra Street, which is situated right next door to our motel," they stated.
The letter expressed concern about "disturbances in the park", "truck drivers pulling up across the road at all hours of the night" and "their customers parking in our off-street parking area".
All neighbours expressed particular concern about the type of clientele the brothel attracted.
"At night you hear people yelling things out ... there's a lot more going on at night, there's a lot more noise and a lot rougher kind of person around," Mrs Treloar said.
"All the taxi drivers know about it, they drop people here all the time."
Council's general manager Mark Riley confirmed the council had received a formal complaint about the premises.
"The council has undertaken an investigation following two complaints," he said.
"And the council staff are currently assessing the council's position."
Earlier Mr Riley confirmed "there is no DA approval for that site".
Orana crime manager Detective Inspector Mick Willing said the council approached the area commander for advice about the best course of action "months ago".
"We gave some advice, and the council wanted to take action themselves," he said.
"We've been waiting for that action to happen."
Inspector Willing said "if there was anything criminal detected, we'd be happy to take whatever action is possible".
(Review # 11973)
- Darwin Escort Review Dated Added: Fri Jun 10 2005 Submitted by: freefall16
Escorts in Darwin.
You can find them in the NT News or the Yellow Pages.
They quality is very variable, from outright lying of their age by 20+ years to some absolute gems.
Unfortunately, the gems are fly in fly out and the not so good are locals.
There is one particualar agency which is acting more like a brothel (which is illegal in the NT) that has chinese women. They advertise as independent escorts with close to half the adds being theirs (from my own experience). The women generally speak very bad english, will perform just about anything for the right money. (I have had full service without protection for an extra $AUD150.00 which I strongly recommend you don't accept as the girls look a bit iffy, BBBJ either thrown in free or $AUD50.00).
The standard rates tend to be:
One hour $AUD200.00
Half hour $AUD150.00
Extra Service $AUD50-150 depending on what you want.
From the listed Escort Agencies, they are generally owned by two groups so you may phone two or three "seperate agencies" but get the same list of girls. Agencies tend to charge a little higher, however the girls are generally no better and in some cases down right cold.
Hope this helps your hunting in Darwin.
Happy hunting. (Review # 11730)
- Darwin Strip Club Review Dated Added: Fri Jun 10 2005 Submitted by: freefall16
Went and visited the only legal strip club in Darwin called Sinsations.
The club is located a short walk from the Smith St Mall, walking up smith street past the Woolworths to a street called Edmund St.
It is located next to the Squires Tavern.
The girls can be variable, the long term ones seem to want to be able to walk up to you and say "wanna go upstatirs for a private dance" without actually "working" for it.
The newer girls have a better attitude.
All the girls a 6+ with some 10+ girls appearing from time to time.
Rates are:
$20 for the girl to strip on stage with a semi private dance (depending on the girl).
$50 for the girl to take you upstairs for a "private dance".
The private dance area consists of two large rooms, each room can hold upto 4 or 5 private dances happening at the same time.
I have heard but never tried, that some of the girls will "meet you" after they have finished work.
Private dances are pretty tame, no touching (at all, they make you put your hands on the couch and if you move them, they stop until your hands are back.) I don't know where the rule comes from (i.e. local rule or government?).
Overall its a nice club in comparison to some of the clubs in the larger cities around Australia.
(Review # 11729)
- Kalgoorlie Massage Parlor Dated Added: Sat May 28 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Kalgoorlie is in Western Australia, and here's a fascinating, in-depth article about the brothel situation in that city.
Brothels turn to tourism.
By Victoria Laurie.
May 28, 2005.
IT'S edging towards midnight and business is slow in the red-light district of Kalgoorlie.
A few cars cruise languidly up and down Hay Street, past its famous tin-shed brothels that resemble a row of gaudily lit stables. In a few of the doorways are the silhouettes of sleekly clad women. You have to stop and peer to spot the real prostitutes from the odd shop dummy installed in their place on off-duty nights.
Down the road is an upmarket rival, a brown brick bordello with a bullnosed verandah and colonial-style wall lights. It looks like a respectable motel, except for the telltale mannequins displayed in the front windows and a heart-shaped neon sign on the roof.
Langtrees 181 is Kalgoorlie's most famous brothel, one of the town's oldest and most entrepreneurial. By midnight, a small group of men has walked through its electronic security doors and handed over $220 each for an intimate hour with the prostitute of their choice.
But sex in this city isn't what it used to be, and men no longer turn up in droves. "The sex industry is dying," says brothel madam Leigh Varis-Beswick philosophically, as she greets The Weekend Australian Magazine in Langtrees' gentleman's club-like lounge.
"Back in our day, good girls didn't have sex before marriage," says Varis-Beswick.
Sexual liberation, which delivered men sexual partners for free, isn't the only problem. Kalgoorlie, almost 600 kilometres west of Perth, was once a frontier goldmining town with a hundred-to-one ratio of men to women and a booming brothel industry.
Now it has matured into a regional city with young families and urban housing sprawl. Goldmines and nickel booms still attract largely male workforces, but many are fly-in fly-out workers who head home to Perth after work.
In its colonial heyday, and right into the 1960s and'70s, Kalgoorlie's reputation for blatant prostitution and "skimpy" barmaids was well known. It was Australia's equivalent of the Wild West - an outback "sin city" carved out of red dirt and gold.
Every young man heading west nurtured dreams of losing his virginity in a Kalgoorlie brothel - a scenario immortalised in the 1993 coming-of-age film Love in Limbo, starring Russell Crowe as an eastern states ingenue who arrives at a Hay Street brothel and is taken in by a coquettish madam.
Today, tourism is the sex industry's salvation, and Langtrees pulls more tourists by day than punters at night.
Several times a week, daily in the peak season, coaches pull up in the car park and offload a dozen giggling matrons or a prurient band of backpackers. For $35 each, they get a glimpse of an otherwise off-limits world and the right to brag that they once had a cup of tea and a biscuit in a brothel.
Well-groomed and wearing a black cocktail dress, Varis-Beswick takes us on a rare night-time tour. She begins in the Madam's Suite, an orgy of rococo kitsch with gilt mirrors and purple velvet draped around a plump revolving bed. "Where do you want me, love?" she asks the photographer, arranging herself with a practised pose on a chair.
She explains that the tour concept was born a few years ago after Langtrees' proprietor Mary-Anne Kenworthy - who also owns and operates a Perth establishment - set out to recession-proof the Kalgoorlie sex business. It involved building a brick palace, reputedly at a cost of $2.8 million, "to show people how classy a brothel can be"; installing a novelty shop selling shaped chocolates, dildos and dressing gowns; and assembling prostitution memorabilia.
"Mary-Anne made the comment to me that in ten to 15 years, we'll end up as a museum or a motel," says Varis-Beswick. "But we'll outlive the brothels down the road because we've diversified and we've got tours."
THE BROTHEL TOUR is a bizarre experience, a social history lesson embedded in its gaudy chambers. French and Japanese-themed rooms celebrate the foreign prostitutes who, from the 1890s, were brought in to "entertain" miners on the West Australian goldfields.
The Great Boulder Shaft Room has mirrors that conjure the illusion of a long underground mineshaft, the kind of place where Kalgoorlie miners once risked their lives in pursuit of gold.
More playful themes include the Sports Locker room, with its boxing ring bed for "sparring sessions", while the Roman Orgy Suite, complete with two double beds and lewd murals, is "popular with buck's parties".
But the dark side of prostitution is subtly visible in every corner. The Sports Locker room is rarely used, Varis-Beswick admits, "because men get too aggressive in there - they walk in and punch the medicine ball".
Photographs of Western Australia's most infamous madams hang in another room, among them Shirley Finn, who was found dead in her car in 1975 with two bullet wounds to her head. Her murder remains unsolved; some suspect police involvement.
In the tent-like Afghan Boudoir, offering "the mystic charm of a dreamy desert oasis", a perspiring, overweight young man arrives to change the bedcover.
Jason says he doubles as the bordello's daytime tour guide; his girlfriend began working as the receptionist and the brothel needed a hefty male minder. "We're the world's first brothel to have operating tours," Jason declares, wiping the sweat off his face. "We get a lot of international tourists, and we're in backpacking magazines (sic) like The Lonely Planet.
"I'm the second-ever bloke who has worked here as a tour guide. I tell my friends and they say, 'Really? Cool. Any jobs for me?'"
Daytime tourists are kept away from clients, but in the late afternoon they might spot a few bored-looking girls in negligees and high heels lounging on club sofas in the wood-panelled lounge.
By ten o'clock, Caroline and Jodie are still waiting for customers, and don't mind talking to kill time. Caroline is in her late thirties, single with grown-up children and a struggling business she runs in another town.
"When I started, I needed to do it for the money," she says, twisting her golden ringlets around her finger. "But I reached my target within five months, and now I'm choosing to go for the next goal. I aim for five or six jobs a night - the most I earned was $1180 in one night."
She says she is fairly typical of many brothel workers - educated and working by choice. "I did it for a short while about 20 years ago, and the kind of girl then was different. When I was 18, they were doing it for money, for a drug habit or because they couldn't find anything else to do."
Jodie, a pretty 21-year-old single mother in a short pink slip, fits into that latter category. She says she earns around $1500 a week, more when she works down in Perth. ("There's more customers 'cos it's near the casino.")
"I started off stripping and (in) skimpy (barmaid) work, which I always said I'd do when I turned 18 for the money. I'll do this until I get established."
"Girls come in to make money and set themselves up, or they're here to feed a habit," says Varis-Beswick, with surprising candour. "If they're here for that, she's out the door. I don't want to walk into a room and see her dead with a needle in her arm."
Tolerance of vice has been an essential ingredient in the survival of the Kalgoorlie brothels. Authorities whose job it is to close them down, bust them in drug raids or investigate them for tax evasion have traditionally turned a blind eye.
"The Hay Street brothels have operated openly for a hundred years, unofficially regulated and approved by police authorities and the local council," observes social historian Elaine McKewon in The Scarlet Mile (UWA Press), a new book about prostitution in the west.
"No other town in Australia has had such a stable and open red-light district," says McKewon. At the same time, and despite the historical significance of the Hay Street brothels, prostitution has hardly rated a mention."
THE SEX INDUSTRY has always inhabited a twilight zone, historically and legally. Kalgoorlie was the birthplace of Western Australia's so-called containment policy, in which a few brothels were selectively tolerated by police authorities. In 2000, containment was formally abandoned as a policy in Perth, but it has remained in Kalgoorlie.
Under WA's blatantly illogical laws, it is illegal to keep premises for the purpose of prostitution but legal for working girls to offer sex for money, as long as they do it out of public view. Thus, Hay Street's prostitutes are working legally, but only for as long as they do it behind the doors of an illegally operated brothel. In 2003, a new Prostitution Control Bill promised to regulate the sex industry, but stalled in parliament.
Varis-Beswick claims the industry still wants prostitution to be legalised and regulated: "We want a licensing control board that can revoke your licence if you have too many people saying 'this is not a good madam'."
The rank hypocrisy surrounding Kalgoorlie's brothels has operated in Langtrees' favour, especially when owner Mary-Anne Kenworthy applied for a permit to replace the old corrugated iron premises on Hay Street with her brick palace. The city councillors faced an awkward dilemma: "They could not give a building permit for a brothel, which is an illegal industry," says Varis-Beswick, with a hint of glee. "So we were classed as a motel, and they voted in favour."
The council is unlikely ever again to approve a brothel-cum-motel, says City of Kalgoorlie CEO Ian Fletcher firmly. "The issue for us is we want to break away from the brothels, two-up games and skimpy barmaids as the only things that Kalgoorlie is known for. Yes, it's part of our heritage but there's a lot more than that now. Our mayor is very particular about that."
So where does the sex industry fit in Kalgoorlie now? "Basically, tourism. People drive up and down Hay Street because there's nowhere else in Australia where you can go and see it. Just as they want to go and see the two-up ring."
Varis-Beswick is the embodiment of changing times. The brothel madam is proud of the hometown she describes, without irony, as "a stone's throw from God's door". In 1999, she stood as a candidate in Kalgoorlie local council elections and won. "I went on the council to try and make a difference - we got streetscaping, a grass golf course with a resort. You have to push for these things."
It was a double first for sexual acceptance - she was the first brothel madam to sit on council and the first transgender councillor into the bargain. Born Harry John Varischetti, the son of a Kalgoorlie miner, (s)he underwent a sex change in 1986 in Singapore.
In the last federal election, "Madam Leigh" stood unsuccessfully as an independent candidate for Kalgoorlie's vast goldfields electorate. Prostitution law reform was only part of her platform; a return to old-fashioned values ("spare the rod and spoil the child") and better obstetric care for Kalgoorlie mothers were as high on her agenda.
The wild frontier days are over in Kalgoorlie, she concedes, "which is good, but not so much for our business". As she ushers us back out through Langtrees' electronic doors just before midnight, she adds hopefully: "But men will always want sex, just like there's always gold in 'them there hills'."
(Review # 11607)
- Hobart Escort Review Dated Added: Mon May 02 2005 Submitted by: MrGone
City Ladies - Christa
City Ladies has been in West Hobart for years. Visisted there again after a long break. There has always been a mixed bag there - some great girls, some that are bored out of their brains, and some past their sell buy date. Visited Christa, on the phone they said she was 19, 5'6", Brown hair, size 8. Guess the description was correct, but she was so inexperienced and unenthusiastic I couldn't get out fast enough. She wouldn't take any initiative. Her idea of conversation was to say that the radio DJ was funny, then to say 'you've 15 minutes left, do you want me to keep massaging or to do something else?' About as much fun as screwing a sack of potatoes. Don't bother. $A100 for half an hour. (Review # 11374)
- Queensland Street Action Dated Added: Sun Dec 26 2004 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Information current as of late December, 2004. The chairman of Queensland's brothel authority has decided not to reapply for the position after accusing the Beattie Government of failing street prostitutes."In reality, there are two sex industries, and workers in only one are currently being protected," Mr Carter says in the authority's annual report. "New policies and strategies to support the health and human rights of street-based sex workers are urgently needed." The Chairman advised the Government two weeks ago he would not be available for reappointment when his term finished in May. This came a week before the Crime and Misconduct Commission released its review of the Prostitution Act, which found the state's brothel laws were too tough on sex workers.
(Review # 10675)
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