16 SEPTEMBER 1960, Page 12

AFTER WOLFENDEN

SIR,—In the last couple of years so much has bet n said and written about prostitution by such a vast number of people, yet never a word on the subject from those most directly concerned. i.e.. the pros1;- tine. She was not even represented in the House during the debate on the Wolfenden Report! Since I am a prostitute, having been in the profession a number of years, I feel qualified to offer a few com- ments- -from the 'horse's mouth.' so to speak!

The demand by men for k commercial sexual out- let is a very real one; but one of the few remaining means of communication between client and prosti- tute is about to be closed. I refer to the advertise- ment boards (I have already lost two of the three I used), which method was effective and surely in- offensive. This will have no adverse effect on my business since I rely mainly on a large regular clientele and refuse nearly all strangers, but whai will happen to the great floating male population. those who have not already established themselves with a girl, when they no longer have any soarer

of contact?

Ninety per cent. of my clients are married men. 60 per cent. sexually repressed, and 50 per cent. Per. verted, in the sense that they require slight deviation', from the normal sexual intercourse. Surely the's, facts speak for themselves? In my daily routine. ' must be part mother-figure, part friend, part psychi"' Inst. part lover, part father-confessor, but howeNer varied the individual needs of these men they i'rc most certainly rery real—but how long will it nr before this i4 recognised and accepted? your, faithfully,

KAY R0t