A great many women, it seems, have a kryptonite-like aversion to being held to their own standards. In a famously memed text exchange, a woman demands to evaluate a potential date with his height and income. The man responds by demanding to know her weight, at which point she erupts in rage. She’s not alone: plenty of screencapped dating profiles show decidedly, ahem, ‘Rubinesque’ women, often jobless and with multiple children by multiple men, who apparently fancy themselves such desirable catches that they demand the 6-6-6 rule. “Six feet, six figures, six inches.”
Yer dreamin’, sweetheart.
Such feminine double-standards don’t end there. Despite plenty of women-only business clubs and girls-only schools, still men’s clubs and boys’ schools are demanded to ‘open up’ and let the girls in.
Then there are the websites, apps and social media groups like Tea and Lulu, where women can anonymously rate men. Yet, when a men-oriented website allows customers to rate sex workers, women erupt in fishwife screeching.
The Punter Planet website has been operating for 15 years and offers a nationwide directory of brothels, escort agencies, independent sex workers and massage venues, and a forum where users can anonymously review sex workers.
So, like Yelp for hookers. Big deal?
Punter Planet currently has 259,841 members. Its review forum is described as a space “where all the bad boys (and quite a few bad girls too) gather for lots of online action”, with the thousands of independent reviews “written by punters for other punters just like you” […]
“The things they write are vile, they’re disgusting, they’re really graphic,” sex worker Dallas Rayne said.
Girl, you’re quite literally a whore. By what light do you get to lecture anyone on morality?
Another signatory defended Punter Planet. “So reviews for any other business/service is fine but for SW [Sex Workers] it’s different? Silly hypocrite,” ILove wrote.
To be sure, there appears to be some gross stuff on there, but, out of over a quarter of a million users, they found… three creepozoids?
In screenshots seen by the Age, members discuss how to pressure sex workers into having sex without condoms. As part of a post about an “attractive young new fresh sexy teen keen to play”, user Kennedy1987 wrote: “New one at Carina house. No natural sex though. We will see how long that lasts.”
A user calling himself Conan The Impaler replied: “That will have to be the first time anyone has used a condom at the Carina house. Let’s hope she feels out of place and offers BBFS [Bare Back Full Service] soon. Guys don’t book her until BBFS is on the table.”
In another post, a user posted a negative review of a sex worker because she did not agree to choking or having her hair pulled.
What the first two comments in fact expose is that a great many brothels and prostitutes are offering these services.
Not least because, thanks to governments, they can. When prostitution was legalised in Australian states, one of the key parts of the laws was that safe sex practices and STD testing were mandatory. In recent years, often at the behest of groups like Scarlet Alliance, Vixen Collective and prostitute-turned-politician Fiona Patten, sex work laws have been liberalised. Part of this liberalisation was the repeal of the 1994 Sex Work Act in Victoria, which had mandated safe sex practices in licensed brothels. The Sex Work Decriminalisation Act 2022, the outcome of Patten’s lobbying, specifically repealed the ‘safer sex practices’ and ‘infected sex worker’ provisions of the old law.
Sounds like you got what you asked for, ladies – and it didn’t turn out the way you liked it. Probably shouldn’t have laid the sugar on the table if you didn’t want ants.
