Band of Gold

[ladyofthemansion]

Having watched the recent re-runs of that series it shows a dark side to sex work.

However, one of the things featured in Episode 1 was the pub full of mainly prossies all just having a drink.

Do pubs like these exist?

[Nia Hope]

I loved that series, I've got a client into washing up gloves like the client in the series, I used to drink with a lot of other lap dancers when I danced years ago in Bethnal Green but never known a pub full of hookers,

Maybe street girls have this? X

[ladyofthemansion]

Would love to drink in a pub full of hookers like the one in the programme. But maybe that's just telly. X

[Cat_BBW]

Back when this show was written (80s/90s?) I'll bet there was a much bigger 'street' sex scene than now. Even if you just look at Soho - the uBer area for sex and adult work - back in the 80s/90s (and much prior to that, back to 60s) there was a thriving sex scene; not just street walkers and walk ups and brothels, but all the other adult establishments that inahbited the area. Peep shows, strip clubs, XXX adult shops, cinemas, adult "book" shops, lots of women and lots of sexual intent within a small area, the pubs round there must have been regular haunts for pros and clients.

It's nothing like that now.

[Siorse]

In my younger days when I worked the streets there were lots of us hanging about on a certain corner, not in a pub though
as they were shut at that time lol
These days the sex-industry is a lot more private and individual, thanks to internet (I remember advertising in the Sport,
just a phone-number nothing else..,that was the only other way to do it other than work in sauna's or the street).
Maybe there are pubs where dancers etc meet up, but a pub just full of prozzy's?
I doubt it

[mature helen]

There used to be a pub like that in Balsall Heath Birmingham in the 70's and women used to sit in their front room window similar to Amsterdam.
A snippet from wikipedia re Balsall Heath

Street prostitution first appeared in Balsall Heath during the 1950s. Property values fell, attracting Birmingham's poorer migrants. By the 1970s the area was notorious for street robberies and drug dealing. Cheddar Road was the centre of a red-light district worked by 450 women. About half of the 50 houses on this road had prostitutes advertising themselves in the windows, similar to Amsterdam. It was labelled Britain's busiest cul-de-sac.[2]

[Siorse]

Good old days eh 
I do think it's a lot safer this way, but you do miss that "camaraderie", it's a lot more of a lonely job these days..
A lot warmer though lol!!
I've been doing this work from before the mobile-phone era, so you had to go out and get your punters. Or put an ad in
the local newspaper.
I grew up in Amsterdam, I never worked in the windows though, they were for the pro's lol, I was only 15, couldn't afford that

[roseanna]

I worked the streets when I started. Men are visual and when we were left alone it was quite busy. Even now I meet a lot of clients who admit it was street punting that got them started and many of them miss it. Maybe that's one reason there seem to be less clients to go around these days.

There was a certain camaraderie, but the drug scene is never far away and best avoided. There were pubs to hang out in but I was too young at the time to mix unnoticed.

[JJay1985]

I suppose nowadays the bars/hotel bars in central london are the "new pubs" where wg's hang out and potential clients scout.

[Red KB]

I watched Band of Gold a few months ago. So glad I don't have to 'operate' like that. I am aware of a particular road in my city but I very much doubt the girls who use that get together for a drink after work or band together.

[rae]

When I was a lot younger I lived down south, and worked around Soho in the peep shows.
I made some lovely friends there, we all used to meet up and go drinking in the bars around there.
That was the nineties though, I don't think any of those places are left.

[luciefate]

Well I'm watching this excellent series on YouTube as I remember some of the dialogue even though I watched it years ago. Loving it more now I'm actually working.

It reinforces my decision not to do car meets though - Gina's just been murdered. 

[StawberryFields]

We should start the trend up again! 

[Red KB]

I never thought to look it up on YouTube. Now I can watch the third season which I couldn't find elsewhere

[ladyofthemansion]

I never thought to look it up on YouTube. Now I can watch the third season which I couldn't find elsewhere

Think the third season was just called "Gold" and to anyone with Sky lots of episodes on Catchup on ITV Encore. X