The porn star experience, or PSE, is a service offered by sex workers in brothels or by escorts, which implies they’ll perform the kinds of sex acts seen in porn movies. The porn-star experience usually means more sexually extreme acts are on the menu – I don’t know about you, but some of those heading towards the extreme end would have me eating in different restaurants. I’m admittedly a little old-fashioned, but I prefer my paid-for sex with a touch of feigned intimacy as a minimum. For me, the pornstar experience has absolutely nothing to do with romance, companionship or your feelings, faked or otherwise.  So, you might reasonably ask, who needs or wants their sex served up this PSE […]

Let’s declare our unqualified support for sex between consenting adults.  One of life’s truly mind-altering experiences.  Ah, ‘me too’ please.  And it’s free!  But I hear you say, that’s not what they told me down at the Cherry Tree Garden brothel last night… When you visit a brothel it’s free in one important way – free of hang-ups and worries from an embarrassing phone call the next day about that promise you made, or those three little words you unintentionally uttered in the throes of passion to that girl from the office, or the one from the bar you found yourself in.  And, importantly, those issues of “consent” are unlikely to be challenged. Potentially, a high price elsewhere. As many […]

One thing I realised early-on in my brothel visiting days is that all brothels are not equal. Far from it. I expect most people can remember their first visit to a brothel, and the idea that some may be less equal than others isn’t what’s front and centre in your mind at the time. That first time can be nerve-wracking. I recall forgetting my earlier dreamy thoughts of having the best brothel experience in Melbourne that my mate promised me at this place; the first time it was all just a bit other-worldly and intimidating. But, having garnered a bit of courage, I rang the doorbell – that point of no return. The door opened and suddenly I felt scared […]

One of the biggest mysteries in the world of relationships is why do us men in serious and committed relationships stray when we can get sex right there in our own backyard.  For those who are fascinated by this seemingly self-destructive behaviour, we could study the work of psychiatrists like Sigmund Freud, who thought it was a symptom of what he called the “Madonna/whore syndrome”. Freud was the pioneer of psychoanalysis and a man driven by theories of unconscious childhood urges lurking just beneath our veneer of social morality. He proposed the answer lay in the way men divided women into two types: the wives and mothers of our children (picture-perfect angels of purity), and the raw, lust-filled prostitutes who were […]

‘It’s just seedy with a lot of sleazy types hanging out in the corners in the dim lights’.  This may be the response you’ll get if you ask for someone’s perception of the adult entertainment industry in Melbourne, at least about the strip clubs, movie houses and brothels. I’d be the first to agree this stereotype still exists in some of these venues, but it’s one the adult entertainment industry in Melbourne is working hard to dispel. The first point to make is that “Adult Entertainment” is a politically correct term for a wide-ranging industry encompassing strip-clubs and karaoke bars, brothels, shops selling toys, pornography, some movie theatres, men’s magazines and many others, both legal and illegal, particularly as related to […]