Thursday, February 28, 2008

Trying Berlin

I put out the feelers: does anyone have any tips on working in Berlin? Advertising boards, etc?

Not much came back, just an email from a friend of a friend warning me that the going rate was sure to be much less than whatever I usually charged, work for non-German speakers was even less profitable, but yes there is a lot of kink in town. Also a recommendation for Hydra, which i plan on checking out today. I just might have to get their logo tattooed on me.

Craigs list is pretty dead here, one to two postings a day, almost all in English. I tried it anyway, after about three days I had two responses, one of whom followed through with my response but balked when I quoted him a rate.

I did a search for escort and agencies and found this beautiful site: A Muse Tonight. It appeals to many of my adolescent fantasies of elegant, high-end sex work. Plus, the ladies are HOT. So I emailed Ms. Brentano asking if she had any interest in a mono-lingual travler from the States.
I haven't heard anything yet, and my hopes aren't high.

Some other impressions of sex life and sex world here:
Two of the first things I noticed while taking the bus into town from Tegel airport were the plethora of Thai massage parlors and at least 4 giant sex mega stores. The massage parlors looked much like those in San Francisco from the outside; small and ranging from cute to garish, presenting a coy glimmering of sexuality. The sex stores struck me as very L.A., each one was about the size of a Walgreens, the facades took up about a third of the block. Cheap looking lingerie and stripper clothes backed by neon and maybe some porn video covers mad up the majority of the window displays. They had names like "Love Sex Dreams", with the L, S and D light up in huge neon, and "Erotic Spot". I got the feeling that some sort of front, a trompe d'oeil was being played, after the fourth of these huge-seeming stores in about eight blocks, I couldn't believe that upon entering they would really be as large and full of erotic delights as promised.

So far I have a hard time imaging the Berliners having sex. My assumptive image before arriving included intense stares and a lot of leather, hard looking Daddies and strict, beautifully cruel ladies and maybe a few plump and luscious defiantly open young women. Definitely lots of blondes (which I are generally my least favorite, as far as aesthetics and lust go, though I make plenty of exceptions.) The truth is, that standing on the U-Bahn platform yesterday, waiting for the train, I looked around and felt a strongly non-sexual vibe. Perhaps it is the chill weather, the winter cloaking, the public forum. But in their dark clothes and stoic expressions, I just couldn't even picture them sweaty and fucking, or grabbing beating each other.

I hope day two to present me with more of the throbbing pulse of sexuality in this city, but these are my very first impressions.