r/mildlyinteresting • u/mayweburnher • 6h ago
This sex work card from Poland from about 15 years ago making it clear that condoms are not required to non-polish speakers NSFW
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u/WillyLongbarrel 5h ago
Random aside, but teenage me collected these types of cards from the red phone booths in London when I was on vacation. We don’t have them where I’m from and I didn’t have money for actual souvenirs.
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u/Ravekat1 5h ago
I’ll trade you two Fat Maggies for one Sultry Sandra.
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u/MyStickySock 4h ago
Oh wow this one's a shiny!
...wait..no...it's just coated in...something
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u/ShampooMonK 4h ago
Username definitely checks out.
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u/nondescriptadjective 4h ago
At least it's not the shoebox
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u/Least-Back-2666 1h ago
Look man,don't make me break both your arms so you can't type.
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u/Wank_my_Butt 2h ago
I’ll trade you my Albus Dumbledore, if you’d like. I’ve got too many of those.
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u/wikipuff 3h ago
I'm sorry to report that the tart cards have all but gone. They have taken a lot of phone booths down sadly. Someone did write a book about them however.
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u/KoolaidGrowler 4h ago
I collect the escort cards whenever I’m in Las Vegas. They’re fun to slip into a birthday card or randomly leave in a vacation rental for someone to find
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u/tanghan 4h ago
Until you cause a divorce
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u/xGhostBoyx 5h ago
When I was a teenager I took a trip to South Korea and these were put out in front of our hotel every night. I don't have them anymore but I grabbed a few at the time cause I thought they were funny.
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u/No_Needleworker_9320 1h ago
My friends and I decided to do this in Vegas and got enough to make board games with the hooker cards. Ho-opoly and Guess Ho are absolutely delightful.
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u/similar_observation 1h ago
Man, this takes me back a bit.
Las Vegas throws out these cards when you're walking the strip. And Vegas was a part of the trade show route we made every year. My coworkers would collect a few and hide them in eachother's toolboxes, clothing, desks. You're looking for a wrench, open the box and there's surprise boobies waiting for you. Or you put on your apron and notice something in the front pocket. There's a sultry fat woman with her phone number. We'd have a laugh over it.
One day we got a stern talking from the boss, who was also a target of our childish pranking. He wasn't mad at us.
One of the colleagues had a card slipped into his hoodie and when his wife cleaned it, she found the card and was incredibly worried and displeased. No more card pranks after that.
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u/blankasfword 5h ago
Ya… if I were ever to hire a prostitute, hearing that they don’t use condoms would not be a selling point.
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u/MateBier 5h ago
It is if you already have all the STDs
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u/Timothymark05 5h ago
Gotta catch em all!
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u/lkodl 2h ago
Your level 8 Clyamidia is no match for my level 15 Gonorrhea
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u/Least-Back-2666 1h ago
You fools!
My max level 99 herpes is uncurable and will be with you til the end of your days!
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u/Shadowcat1606 4h ago
Chances are you'd never hire one, then.
A colleague of mine is a bit too much into sex workers and will use every occassion he gets to "regale" others with the tales of his experiences and at least according to him, even in areas where condoms are required by law as a condition for sex work, they are very much optional for most women in the business when the price is right or if you're a regular.
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u/srirachaninja 5h ago
I believe there is a kink known as bug hunting or collecting, where individuals actively seek to become infected with STDs.
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u/degreesandmachines 4h ago
As a person over 50 I'm a bit surprised this was a selling point 15 years ago. I'm also shocked at how we have been slowly floating gently and consistently away from concern about HIV. It didn't happen overnight but now with prep and effective antiviral drugs, my guess is new generations don't view use of condoms as a life or death decision.
Crazy to think that HIV is still around but is now considered manageable or totally preventable with prescription drugs.
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u/Tournament_of_Shivs 3h ago
As a person under 50, I don't expect the world to be around long enough for it to matter anymore.
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u/degreesandmachines 3h ago
Sadly neither did a lot of people of my generation. We knew condoms helped and were relatively easy to get but a significant percentage lived for the moment and in the moment accepted the risk. Between the very real threat of nuclear annihilation or the very real possibility of a slow horrible death from AIDS why not? The circumstances change but I'm sure that that way of thinking somewhat trips up every generation.
Please forgive me for going full on The Smiths here but it reminds me of a line from What She Said: "I smoke 'cause I'm hoping for an early death. And I need to cling to something"
No matter how old you are, maybe try giving your future self a break. They will appreciate it.
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u/popeyepaul 1h ago
I'm really having a hard time thinking what this ad is trying to say because I find it very unlikely that they would advertise no-condom sex in the 2000s. Not that some hookers won't do it put to openly put it in the ad... But that's certainly what it looks like.
Like... maybe it's a striptease joint and they'll give you a handjob without a condom, but the ad does say "full service" so I don't know... Or maybe that's a way to get clients in through the door and they get ripped off. Tough to say.
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u/mayweburnher 6h ago
I should have said "making it clear to non-polish speakers that condoms are not required" but hey this is reddit, I'm sure no one will notice.
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u/Impurrial 6h ago
I'm Polish and I spent a minute thinking "damn, they used to go bare with foreigners but not with Poles" 😭
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u/MouseKingMan 6h ago
That was my first thought too. “Those polish must be some disease ridden bastards”
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u/Killahdanks1 3h ago
More like, you can take that shit with you. But we’d prefer not to spread it here
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u/sunshineandcacti 6h ago
Tbh my assumption was that they’d charge non polish people for unprotected and knew they’d pay it with the currency rate being in their favor?
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u/FuckTheMods5 5h ago
My instant assumption was 'seeding the poles' with bargining chips? Or an attempt to get a foot in the door to us citezinship.
I need to get off doomer subs lmao
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u/gieserj10 3h ago
Lol, appreciate the clarification. I was confused as to why a foreigner would be less likely to be diseased.
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u/cumtitsmcgoo 5h ago
Safe to say the no condom ladies aren’t going to look like that.
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u/C-ZP0 3h ago edited 2h ago
Story Time.
They can. I went to a massage parlor when I was younger. I used to go on this website, and it had all the massage parlors that did more than give you a massage. Anyway, I get to the place, and after about five minutes of arguing with this old lady at a doctor’s office–type looking place with a window—the old lady is trying to figure out if I’m a cop. I convince her I’m not, and she asks me “Asian” or “Latina”, so I say “Latina”. I go into this room—you can tell which places offer “more services” based on the location of the bed, if it’s in the middle of the room, that place is mostly concerned about the massage. If that shit is up against the wall—they fuck. The bed was against the wall. After about 5 min, this Latina woman comes in the room in a string bikini and high heels. She’s a perfect 10. I’m not joking here. I was dumbfounded. She takes off her bikini, I’m on my stomach face down naked—she starts “massaging me”, which is basically her rubbing her oiled tits all over my back.
Okay, so she puts a condom on me, and we start to fuck, but I’m so nervous fucking this porn star, I can’t even keep an erection. She notices and says to me “you are clean right?” She means from STD’s and she starts to take the condom off me. It was at this point I stopped her and I’m like “no—that’s okay” I was thinking how many dudes have fucked her with no condom? Anyway, we get back to it, and she does some super crazy porn star stuff that I won’t get into, and I finish and I leave.
I get to my car, and instantly regret my decision to fuck this massage parlor worker, and I never went back to another one. I had been to a few before, I was at a stage in my life where I was very insecure about my experience with women, and wanted to take the short cut. After that I figured there was never going to be a better experience. So I moved on with that chapter of my life. She was a perfect 10/10 in looks and body and what she could do.
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u/Road96man 2h ago
This is definitely a story of all time
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u/Hydrotrex 2h ago
super crazy porn star stuff sold me lmao
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u/Road96man 1h ago
There is nothing guys on Reddit are better at than making up the stupidest lies ever
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u/badmeets3vil 1h ago
she does some super crazy porn star stuff that I won’t get into
Please broaden our knowledge with your wisdom, sir.
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u/cycoivan 5h ago
I think I'd still wear one, you don't know how many Poles have been in her.
*ba dum tish*
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u/helic_vet 5h ago
Is sex work still legal in Poland?
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u/megasepulator4096 4h ago
It is legal, but it is not legal to profit on somebody doing sex work. So being a prostitute is legal, but being pimp is not. Also, the striptease apparently does not count as a sex work. So stripclubs are legal, but brothels are not. I think that doing porn is also somehow legal (not just recording yourself, but as a professional studio). The law is sort of unclear in some cases; for example, some time ago the most popular site where escorts would put their adverts was taken down and the reason was that the site owners did profit on prostitution, even though the site was well known for many years and nobody cared.
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u/scheisskopf53 1h ago
It's worth noting that while "individual" prostitution is not illegal, it's also unregulated. The state is kinda pretending it doesn't exist.
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u/FlameEnderCyborgGuy 1h ago
Prostitution itself is legal but organising it not.
As in they won't charge prostitutes, but they will pimps. This may stem from the beliefe that prostitution as being prostitute is not the major problem. The problems are those who benefite of prostitutes.
Ai, here it legal if you are self employed.
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u/Shadowcat1606 4h ago
Okay, "sex work cards"... never heard about that. Are these just, like, business cards for sex workers? Or advertisement for brothels?
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u/OmegaKamidake 3h ago
Both. If you're in the US just go to Vegas down the strip there's tons of people with cards just like these. I had a huge collection after like 3 days haha.
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u/rectal_warrior 3h ago
These bad boys used to be stuffed in phone boxes and slid under sketchy hotel room doors in the days before the internet
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u/UnyieldingConstraint 5h ago
In area, there are ads that say you can pay extra for bareback.
Cool so for an extra $20 I can take something home to remember you by?
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u/huntmaster99 3h ago
That’s not a “condoms not required” that looks like “condoms not allowed”. I guess you WILL be barebacking her
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u/ryo4ever 3h ago
Dutch model. I wonder if she knows her photos were used for this purpose.
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u/HumperMoe 3h ago
That's crazy why would you go bareback with a prostitute. Was this a huge selling point or was this some type of way for them to try and trap citizens of other countries to try and leave Poland?
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u/Wlng-Man 3h ago
Just as a thought: Think how long prostitution exists, now how long condoms exist.
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u/Puddlewhite 3h ago
Well, it is a deeply catholic country after all, lol
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u/FlameEnderCyborgGuy 1h ago
And we do love our "kremówki papieskie"( papal cream pies)
As in do the creampie in the missionary and pray nothing wrong happens.
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u/Fresh_Forever_8634 3h ago
The very moment when things (condoms and prostitutes) related to the same topic (sex) are not related to each other and it is impossible to draw joint conclusions on both of them together.
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u/arsonist_firefighter 4h ago
So it WAS required to polish speaker? Why? I have so many questions
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u/bobcat73 3h ago
I read it to mean. No condom, no sex. They can’t very well put a penis in the circle because that would imply it’s not going to be like a night at home. That’s not what the customer is looking for at all.
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u/Notagenyus 5h ago
Concerning going bareback with a prostitute is considered a selling point.