# London brothel menu from 1912
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 3, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939 "2013-03-03T21:25:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/1 "2013-03-03T21:25:40Z")
Just in case anyone feels a little randy and wants to take a time machine back to 1912, [here’s a handy price list](http://www.thedollymoppfiles.co.uk/blog/2013/03/london-se1-escort-blog-borough-london-bridge/)so you’ll know how much cash to bring.
Something for everyone! And they’re very clear about exactly what you’ll get for your money.
I wonder how it compares to today’s prices.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/2 "2013-03-03T21:28:48Z")
What were the prices for Happy Hour, and did they have a “Two-fer Tuesday” special?
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/3 "2013-03-03T21:42:50Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> I wonder how it compares to today’s prices.
It should be pretty easy to compare. Especially as the kind folks back in Edwardian London were far sighted enough to use both very modern language _and_ decimal currency :smack:
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/4 "2013-03-03T21:51:18Z")
Yeah, it looks US–only the blogger was from London–but the language seems very modern.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/5 "2013-03-03T21:52:11Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#):
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> It should be pretty easy to compare. Especially as the kind folks back in Edwardian London were far sighted enough to use both very modern language _and_ decimal currency :smack:
Good catch.
Fake.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/6 "2013-03-03T21:53:38Z")
Aw, it’s a fake?
Bummer. I thought it was kind of neat.
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/7 "2013-03-03T21:54:11Z")
Nice that they served refreshments, though I don’t know what juice goes best with finger fucking.
Bob cocks and flat pricks?
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/8 "2013-03-03T21:57:14Z")
It took me about five seconds to realize that it was a fake.
Good catch by **Tapioca Dextrin** to prove it.
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### Author:  [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/9 "2013-03-03T22:02:20Z")
I dunno, Pinkey’s Special looks like a steal…
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/10 "2013-03-03T22:05:56Z")
> [@bobkitty](#):
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> I dunno, Pinkey’s Special looks like a steal..
Are you fingering what I’m fingering, Pinkey?
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/11 "2013-03-03T22:15:23Z")
Brits say “arse,” not “ass.” And they definitely don’t use the dollar sign.
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### Author:  [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/12 "2013-03-03T23:31:11Z")
> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Are you fingering what I’m fingering, Pinkey?
Bwah!! 😃
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/13 "2013-03-04T03:46:27Z")
Assuming it’s real, I’d be curious as to why “Pinkey’s Special” is five times more expensive than the next priciest item on the menu.
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### Author:  [@The\_Lurker\_Above](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lurker_Above)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/14 "2013-03-04T03:54:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Assuming it’s real, I’d be curious as to why “Pinkey’s Special” is five times more expensive than the next priciest item on the menu.
To make the other items look like a steal?
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/15 "2013-03-04T04:01:10Z")
It doesn’t actually claim that the brothel was in England. It could be a genuine old American brothel.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/16 "2013-03-04T04:27:48Z")
One reason why I’m pretty sure that it’s fake is that before about 1960 it was generally believed illegal to print the word “fuck”. Even a printer for a brothel would have insisted that they use some other word so that the printer would not be prosecuted. This legal doctrine was ended with the publication of D.H. Lawrence’s _Lady Chatterley’s Lover_ in 1960, and the unsuccessful prosecution of the publishers (Penguin Books).
(I know a bit about the law on obscene publication of that era because I was the editor of a student newspaper in the mid 1960s, and I read up enough on the law at that time so that while I was editing it we stayed on the right side of the law. Other editors from that era did not, and were prosecuted.)
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/17 "2013-03-04T04:40:34Z")
The font is way too new and tidy. It’s laser printed.
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### Author:  [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/18 "2013-03-04T04:44:12Z")
I don’t care if it’s fake but a bunch of those cracked me up, like this one: “Wanking furiously whilst observing the rules of snooker.” Even though I have absolutely no idea what the second part of that sentence is supposed to mean.
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### Author:  [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/19 "2013-03-04T04:50:32Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> I wonder how it compares to today’s prices.
Twenty Dollars, same as downtown.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/20 "2013-03-04T05:28:42Z")
The “no discount for cash” line is another anachronism. A hundred years ago, cash would have been pretty much the only means of payment used.
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