When I was 18 A group of us 'lads' went to Soho to errrmmmm you know how it is....
Well we did a peep show which had a nice looking girl in some lingerie sitting in a room reading a magazine having a fag - that was interesting (yawn) Then we did another horrible place with smelly booths (the memory still lingers) but in which there was a woman in there using a vibrator on herself - which at the time was almost breathtaking to us 18 year old testosterone saturated cash rich country boys.
Finally though we decided on a live sex show!!! cool or what! We payed our 2 quids to go into a dimly lit room. Some ladies were on a big bed in the corner of a room chatting and smoking with each other clothed in just normal attire (jeans sweatshirt type tops etc legwarmers - well it was the early 80's)
We got asked if we wanted drinks we said "no thanks"
To which we were told no drinks no show! Well we each bought a coke to be billed for on leaving. Then 2 of the ladies came across and said we must buy them drinks if anything was to happen,
We realised now that this was going no where fast so we thought we would leave. Not before being charged £12:50(early 80's remember) each for a plastic disposable coffee cup full of coke!! We started to complain bitterly, but out came 2 very large foreign 'gentlemen' shoutimg at us in a foreign language. We looked sheepishly at each other and left quickly.
The worst thing was being 18yrs old we dissappeared to covent garden had lots of beers got up dutch courage to go and have it out with the guys to this club. And, promptly got nicked by the Police. Who, laughed like drains on hearing our stories and escorted us back to Victoria station to get a coach home.
It was a really crap expensive day out for 4 lads trying to get laid in london!