It has been a bit quiet on the punting front.

First I suppose I have been worried I may not have a job. That issue has temporarily receded.

Second, I am saving up for Glastonbury. Have almost saved all my money for that long weekend in June. So hopefully will be back punting in a vengeance soon.

An opening for a punt came along, took quite a bit of organising in the end. Colleagues wanting to go out for supper, me trying to get a lift back to the hotel in time. On good thing was that when the meetings were overrunning, whole sections got cancelled so that we could still end on time.

Anyway I met the gorgeous Danni from Gateshead. That’s the place up in the North where they go running through the Fells, and wear T-shirts in the icy cold on a Friday night drinking session.

Danni came round to my hotel, and we sat chatting for a while. Really chatting about the politics of prostitution and what we should be doing through the IUSW and GMB to fight this crap legislation being foisted on us. All conversations come to an end and we then had some excellent mutual pleasuring. She loves receiving oral, and I love giving it. She loves kissing, and she loves giving oral. I reckon that makes for a nice evening in bed.

Seen my regular Kandi in Aylesbury. Had a 45 minute session with her. She is the most adorable sexy creature I have laid eyes on. She is so tight, and so slim. I feel like a real porn star as I gently bring her to climax with the gentle flicking of my tongue. Then to screams with please and becomes so sensitive that you can't touch her again.

Oh and the way Kandi takes you into her mouth and brings you to an explosive climax.

I long to meet Kandi again and again. You know you will get a good shag from her. Sometimes I want to see sometimes else, which I do, but presently there is noone out ther who beats Kandi.

She works with other names, like Caitland when she is working at Annabellas or House of Divine in Milton Keynes.

I met a really cute Italian escort called Erika in Aylesbury today. She is a gorgeous 20's slim brown eyed girl. She has a lovely personality and is nice to cuddle and caress.

I do love the Scorpion tattoo on her bottom.

Slowly the British anti prostitution bill is moving through parliament. At the moment it is in the committee stage. This is where the legislation is reviewed and argued over by various cross party members. Unfortunately the hoped for Conservative fight on this legislation has not appeared in committee. Only two MPs fighting for the sex workers rights and saftey. and clause 13, control for gain, will stand part of the bill the only ones who voted against it was Dr Harris and Nadine Dorries

There is hope that the bill will be watered down, with alot of clarification of what control for gain in prostitution really means. There is also hope that brothels will come out of this as semi legal. We shall see how this progresses.

Oxfordshire is a place where brothels tend not to last that long, so in that vein I have started a website for escorts in Oxfordshire.

The second reading of the Police bill is due to start next week. This is the act which intends to criminalise most sex work clients in the UK. I have written numerouss time to my MP. He must be getting really bored of me.

What I don't understand is the Government is trying to sell this, but missed out including the sex workers in the drafting of the laws. The proposition is meant to be there to safe guard sex workers, so how come they don't like the new legislation. The IUSW, and the ECP were not included in the report. The UKNWSP who are out reach workers were ignored, none of their comments or findings were included.

Missing out the sex workers, and using research from Mellisa Farley, and from the non-academic pigs ear of research done by the big brothel project will be the undoing of this bill. All the evidence suggests that sex trafficking and coercion is not large in this country.

On a more interesting aspect of punting, I have discovered some niche Escort directories near where I live. Buckinghamshire Escorts, a listing of fabulous escorts around Buckinghamshire. There were a couple further afield but still in by area of. Bedfordshireshire Escorts and Hertfordshireshire Escorts

Those directories are very easy to use, just have a thumbnail image which takes you straight through to the escort site.

When I travel to Scotland there is a new one of a similar stayle called Edinburgh Escorts

I visited Jerrie in Aylesbury for the third time. Jerrie is a really cute and sexy blond who really knows how to satisfy a man. I mentioned before that she appears on the satellite adult programs late at night. Not seen her there yet, I would rather do than watch. You can also meet her at gentlemen parties where she goes with the name of Kandi. I apologise because I am about to use one of those photographs for this blog entry.

I arranged to meet her through the escort agency at eleven. I like to visit early because I love the oral side of sex, I love to lick her pussy and feast on her juices. She was in the flat ready and waiting for me, wearing some gorgeous high healed shoes with bright steel stiletto heals. She confided that one man wanted her to walk over him with those boots on. I can't imagine the pain.

She welcomed me in, she knows me now, and asked if I had been doing more photography. I say that she knows me now, I have only seen her a couple of times before, and these visits have been interspersed with gaps of over a month.

Today the sex was different, oral of course, but a long session of 69, I was constantly licking and exploring her pussy with my tongue, while she deep throated my rod. She paused every now again to savour my licking. She made some comment about women and doing two things at once.

Then we went into full sex with her on top. She fucked me wildly, coming herself. Then over on to her back as I finished off inside her. She is tight and she has a lovely figure.

Afterwards I spent a long time talking with her. We got on to politics, the legislation on prostitution, the awful way the Government is treating the sex industry. We talked about sex and her job. Today I was her first, and today she had not screwed for several days, tired from work painting her flat etc. She says she has a high sex drive, and loves sex, and with me she was very sensitive because she had not had sex for a while. When she is working flat out she may see 16 clients in a day.

She regrets having to pay so much of her earnings to the agency, and would like to become an independent escort as well. I hope she does, there are so many escort directories places to advertise on.

I watched Proposition K from here in the UK. I was always hopeful that San Francisco would look towards helping is sex workers as it has done with its gay community. This would have decriminalized sex work and allowed sex workers more protection from abuse. Unfortunately the police and mayor did not see it that way, and the residents of the city were not convinced. A great well fare opportunity has been lost. Renegade Evolution makes some excellent points, there is nothing I can disagree with.

San Francisco sex workers have lost out in this, and I believe all residents of that city have also lost out. Sex work will never go away, and decriminalising the work will make it easier to leave, and will make it less obtrusive.

I speak as someone who has visited SF, but lives in Edinburgh Scotland. Presently prostitution is legal in the United Kingdom, but brothel keeping, street work is illegal. In Edinburgh brothels are licensed by the Local Authority, though they are in law illegal, they are visited by the local police and prostitution out reach workers.

The result is very little street prostitution in that city compared with Glasgow where the authorities close down and prosecute the brothel owners. There is very little abuse and trafficking. Where there is trafficking, its not in the licensed brothels but in unlicensed flats. These get raided and closed down and successful prosecutions brought against the abusers. Glasgow also sees far more murders and rapes of prostitutes than does Edinburgh. Two cities no more than 50 miles apart with totally different outlooks on prostitution.

The brothels exist all over Edinburgh in the centre and are discreet causing no disruption to residents or businesses.

Even in this almost ideal world, there are people out there trying to close this industry down. Why? It not harming anyone. It is consenting sex between adults for a payment. The brothels are drug free, and trafficking free. Outreach organisations have access to the women, and those wanting to leave can be helped if that's what they want.

If a women is trafficked into a 'legal' brothel by an outside agency (pimp, boy friend), then the brothel owners and the other prostitutes will see this and report it. This trafficking does happen, and the ability of the other prostitutes to report their fears is a great safety net. Once all this becomes illegal you will see a horrific rise in abuse.

The legislation in Scotland, made penalties for street prostitution and for kerb crawlers, (Johns) far more expensive last year. This has been enforced in Edinburgh with the result street work now occurs in residential areas, and attacks on street prostitutes has doubled in that city in the year. Take a look at the Scottish outreach website Scotpep

Unfortunately there are large forces battling prostitution, these people equate prostitution and trafficking. These people do not understand why women and men become prostitutes, these people say they want to save prostitutes from abuse, but do they ever actually speak and listen to prostitutes.

Sex workers from San Francisco keep up your fight, don't lose heart. We our selves in the UK have a large fight before us keeping some of the freedoms we have in sex work. Not ideal freedoms as in New Zealand though.

I write this with much knowledge of the British sex industry. I work in the industry by allowing women to advertise their services for free on an escort directory

I would like to comment on this following the very recently flawed research by the Poppy organization. The Poppy organisation research into the number of Brothels in London. The intention was to estimate the number of people who were trafficked into the sex work. Very laudable.

The writers of the paper though equate prostitution as violence against women, and not sticking with the agenda on trafficking impose their beliefs through out the paper with exclusion of other research. The only time other options are mentioned it is only to argue against those opinions with out a debate. This is to be expected as the agenda of these radical feminists is to remove prostitution from the world.

At least there are some people who are not taken in by this propaganda, and we did even find in the Guardian newspaper some one willing to stand up against Mz Brindel.

My submission to the article was this.



The Poppy project does a good job in helping trafficked women. Could not the Government have funded more places rather than funding some rather poor research.

Would the Government fund similar research by organizations who work with prostitutes like Scotpep (OK problem its Scotland, and a different Government), or someone like Julia O'Connell Davidson. I some how think not, they will not get the answer they want.

What also irritates me is the lack of openness? The Mori poll, all I have seen is a few quotes from the poll, all with rather loaded questions. Where is the full unedited Mori Poll as a tax payer I have paid for.

The figures from Pentameter don't stack up very well in the support for trafficking as was pointed out in an article by Julia O'Connell Davidson. Her comments were made after MacShane's lie in parliament of 25,000 sex slaves.

When 515 indoor prostitution establishments were raided by police as part of Operation Pentameter last year, only 84 women and girls who conformed to police and immigration officers' understanding of the term "victim of trafficking" were "rescued". At this rate, the police would need to raid some 150,000 indoor prostitution establishments to unearth MacShane's 25,000 sex slaves.

The figures for Pentameter 2 don't show much more of a problem, and remember unlike the Big Brothel project, Pentameter 2 was targeting locations where human trafficking was expected.

Pentameter 2 was a multi-agency operation, led by the police. It aimed to combat human trafficking for sexual exploitation by arresting, identifying, disrupting and bringing to justice those involved in this criminal activity. The operation succeeded in recovering 167 victims and made 528 arrests. It involved visits to 822 premises, the vast majority of which - 582 - were residential; 157 were massage parlours/saunas and the rest comprised other venues such as ports and hotels.

What is not mentioned in this quote from a letter I received from the home office is the number of successful prosecutions.

Hansard does say 71 charged. 167 'victims' of which 48 were deported.

I thought we did not deport victims. So were they victims?

At the start I mentioned Scotpep. They work with prostitutes, and unlike the Poppy project survey which relied on phone calls and no visits (Have they not heard of high pitch sales men, with special offers that don't exist when you come to buy), the Scotpep workers speak to prostitutes. Thats their job. From a small research project they did amongst the Edinburgh brothels. I shall extract some snippets.

Do you think that prostitution is violence against women?

No respondent answered in the affirmative

One sex worker identified herself as a lifelong feminist and said Defining prostitution per se as violence against women, as several abolitionists have done, is patronising and misogynistic.

How do you feel about your involvement in prostitution?

Some said that they enjoyed the sex; one said that she did not experience sexual pleasure in her work, but that this absence did not bother her.

. One said that she felt empowered and was in control of both her finances and sexuality.

Another said she had never felt exploited by any customer or boss, and that while some customers could be very nice and others not so nice, this was true of any job which involves dealing with the public. This sentiment was echoed by another sex worker who stressed that she had always preserved her own boundaries and never done anything she wasnt comfortable with, preferring to lose money than be ill-treated or feel dehumanised or degraded.

Conclusions

It is always a concern when someone does not choose sex work of their own free will, whether because another person has forced them into it or because they feel there is no alternative way to address their financial needs or problems. As such, the fact that only a small minority of respondents to this survey expressed such feelings should not be glossed over. On the other hand, it would be dishonest to seize upon their answers and hold them up as representative of most workers in Edinburghs sex industry. Instead, it must be understood that an individuals experience is representative of nobody but themselves. Prostitution is not inherently violent and abusive; nor is it inherently empowering. Different people may experience it as either or both of these things, or as something else entirely. Prostitution is inherently nothing but the exchange of sexual services for money. What matters is that we listen to sex workers voices instead of putting words into their mouths. To protect sex workers from harm, we must meet the needs that they themselves identify, rather than impose assumptions onto their experience.

I want to introduce my self. I am a man who has had a good sex life and been monogonous with only one partner ever in his life. Four years ago I started working away from home. Then things went of the rail. I started visiting escorts, or sex workers. Never workers on the street, but workers in brothels, or independent escorts working from their home flat or visiting me in my hotel.

The experience for me was liberating. The sex was fantastic, the women from gorgeous to plain, but each are individual and friendly women. I now have friendships with many of these women that goes beyond sex.

I am still happily married. My wife knows that some of this has happened, but not to the extent.

I became so interested in sex workers, that now I do websites for them, and I run my own escort directory to help them sell their services. They call me at all times to discuss their problems and how to increase their revenue. Its given me a totally insite into the British sex industry, from being a punter through to being friends with the girls and their partners and husbands.