Party Vibe

I know the area he lives in and would agree totally – often that area is full of detectives and if not neighbours log the movements of the girls and punters and pass this info to cops as part of neigbourhood watch.

I would not advise he approaches them on his own as a single male – even if he was with a girl it wouldn’t help as cops would think she was a also a prostitute and if he was with a group it would probably panic the girls who would think you are vigilantés.

also da monkey, like myself, is Asian and the obvious racial sterotypes are going to kick in here when locals or cops see him.

at least with cops you may be able to explain away what you were doing, but feelings run high westside and there is a growing vigilanté culture, another thing to beware of would be locals bricking your windows or worse attacking you as you are “encouraging the vice trade”.

You and I know how fucking expensive housing is in our city. that house would have been affordable for a reason…

TBH though they are making enough in cash terms to afford a cup of tea if they wanted to buy one and probably are not feeling the cold as class A drugs actually mask the cold (go down broad street and you will sometimes see crackhead aggro blokes dressed in summer clothing in the middle of winter!)

but I agree that young people have no right to judge them particularly not young males.

They are there because of the sexually liberated society of today where there is no shame and nothing is taboo, as well as the unregulated drug culture the rave scene introduced in the early 1990s…the urban music scene and the sex trade are closely linked (particularly UKG) – a lot of prostitutes are ex-rave girls who got too much into drugs and became addicted to class A or made bad relationship choices (look in our heroin thread for examples)

Worse still, more recently young men (including those in relationships) have lost any shame about using prostitutes – before it was a “sad dirty old man’s” pastime. It is a reaction to online adult material giving people unrealistic ideas of sex and relationship – with darker overtones of a backlash against womens increasing power in society, as it is a way where men can regain power over women.

unfortunately it seems to appeal to a lot of the insecure immature boys around these days who think they are hard.

Also the man reason many of these girls are on the streets is because one or more men has already used and abused them and left them with a kid to raise or an addiction, and they eventually think that if men are going to treat them like that they might as well try and make some cash out of it.

TBH I would leave the “do-gooder” stuff to the professionals who are trying to get these girls off the streets, off drugs and into stable independent lives (and there are people trying to do this – if you want I will try and find out how you could support them).

USE – Reading is now pretty much “outer Londonistan”.

people don’t interact with their neighbours unless they have to, so all they go on is stereotypes.

If monkey monkey was a middle aged white woman and not a young Asian lad there would be no problem (other than being propositioned by would be punters looking for a more “mature” experience!)

if you talk to them I’d definitely suggest making sure you don’t have any pot, rizlas or anything incriminating on you and perhaps proof of ID and that you live locally!