Do you remember...

[Pompal 09.]

I may be the Methusaleh of the "hobby." Nobody would have called it a "hobby" 40 years ago when I walked into my first MP and was startled--pleasantly--to discover the "tug."

One of my favorites later on was the studio run by Sheila Williamson in various locations in the city. And my favorite masseuse was a woman named Lorna Parker, although in latter days, Christie was a dream. Christie was still there when the studio moved to Etobicoke--and disappeared from my urban map--about a decade ago.

I'm simply wondering if anyone remembers these people, or knows what came of them. This was long before the era of the swank suburban palaces and long before the blossoming of Asian rub-and-tuggers that eventually forced prices down to less than I was paying, at age 20, 40 years ago.

I've never lost the pleasure I found in a good massage or a skilled release. And on my better days, I do send some seed a few feet in the air (does anyone remember the mocha-skinned Jasmine of a few years ago?). In fact, it's one of the few real assets of this frightfully declining city, although the rancid municipal, suburban and provincial politicians behind the decline would probably consider it part of the decline, which it ain't. Toronto's rot is between their ears, not between our legs, mates.

 

[Curtis M]

Nic, you are an inspriation to me and many other hobbyiests. Since launching the loads a few feet at 60? You da man Nic!!!

BBLACK

 

[landscaper07]

Did you ever get to see Kayko from Hawian Isles on Bloor near Keele? I got my first "tug" there over 20 years ago. She was a great Japanese lady who retired well over 10 years back...but like you, NN, that first tingle when my nuts were being lightly brushed before turning over was magic!

 

[Pompal 09.]

Kayko was still there when I visited her back in '98. They have moved away now.

 

[Jayne Savage]

I remember Sheila Williamson, and Lorna - Lorna left very abruptly after LE walked in on her getting WAY to intimate with a customer.. Sheila fired her then and there - she almost lost her licence over it, but survived, bouncing around the city, finally settling in Etobicoke on Lakeshore Blvd. She was still there as recent as 5 years ago (last time i was there), but the place is still open, although i would imagine she is just the owner/manager (if that) at this stage of the game.

 

[DNC Circle n Jerk]

Ahhhhh, Lorna. I can only wish I'd been the client she was being WAAAAAY too intimate with. If that's a crime, sign me up as a career criminal.

 

[Riddle]

I got into this hobby in my 20s back in 1988.
Back then all of the MP ads in the sun barely
took up more than one column. The more well
known MP and MPAs I remember are El Solar
near Dupont and Spadina, Melinda Page, Janet Bell, Scarbrough therapy run by Cynthia Robson.

I think it is the influx of Eastern MPAs in the early 1990s
that brought down the prices first. Asian MPAs
became ubiquitous in the mid to late 1990s. I wonder if
many of these more established MPAs were actually
driven out of the business.

El Solar run Monique Segher (sp?) was taken over
around 1995. I had fond memories of
Nancy the lady from Quebec there. A weird
experience I had there is once Monique's parents
were on a visit to the studio!! The MPAs I was
with had to warn me not to make any noises.

Melinda page closed her studio near Sheppard and Willowdale around 1990. She moved around in the North York
and Scarborough area. Last time I heard of her
she got married and quited .

I think Scarborough therapy moved somewhere in
Markham but I lost track of them.

Another memorable MPA from the ancient days is
a Italian lady Nina. I think she went by Eleanor Vic
in Toronto Sun ad. She was for a while running a studio
at Finch and Yonge. Notwithstanding her somewhat advanced age her teasing was superb .

Janet Bell disappeared in 1990-1991. Although
she offered nothing beyond a rub and tug experience with
her was always satistifactory.

I was lately shocked to learn from this board that
Maga Toth was still around. I saw her once in my first year
of hobbying. She looked way too old to me back then
and I wasn't fuzzy about age. She must be in her 60s
now. Is she actually still massaging or just managing
her studio?

 

[GRACE Q]

Kayko owns (owned) that building she ended up in on Bloor West. I actually ran into her at the Japanese cultural centre at Caravan a few years back...unmistakable ...wandering eye and all. She was singing karioke (in Japanese naturally)

 

[CAB]

At Scarborough Therepy (run by Cynthia Robson) you had to fill out a 2 pg health form including name/add/phone. The ladies wore white lab coats. Their setting was like a health clinic. All the places had use of someones RMT certificate in this case Cynthia's.

El Solar had some nice ladies. Strangely enough I dropped a attendant from El Solar off at the same strip plaza that Scarborough Therapy was in. She lived in a apartment above a store - told me her sister worked for Cynthia but she wouldn't.

It was hit and miss in those days. The more open places had been shut down after the shoe shine boy pedophile murder on Yonge St (late 70's?) - I hadn't been to a MP yet. There weren't places like HFH/SRM/IT/B&S that had all great looking ladies and consistent service. Then again they were a lot cheaper and the tip was discretionary.

There were many good memories and the 80's scene was fun but "the good old days" are now. We have it all.

V12

 

[bryanhughjr]

One of my favorites from the early 90's was a lady called Ellie Mortimer. She worked out of a private basement appartment on Cosburn called the Renaissance Studio. She was a real sweetheart. I believe she relocated to England. Does anybody remember her.

 

[Pompal 09.]

I remember 2 places on Young north of Eglington, near the grocery store, both have either closed or moved to new locations, that I use to visit on trips to Toronto. I have forgotten both names but the one had a "french" lady from Montreal who use to stop in this area on trips home and meet me for a coffee, the other had a "clinic" approach upstairs.
I've been involved in this hobby since my first trip to a rub & tug in the Hmilton area back in 1968. Have enjoyed it since and will continue to enjoy it and allow myself to continue while on visits to Toronto.

 

[Selketchina]

For all of you how have been hobbying for over twenty years and still are....WOW, i hope to be like you....

but seriously, i have a question, what were thses places like, only your simple rub & tug, or more like today with all the extras or what.

Just Curious.....

 

[so.moon]

From my experience, MPs were strictly rub-and-tug. But at the time, rub-and-tug was a covert operation and pretty exciting in itself.

One big difference is that the women who r & t'd weren't as transient as they are now. It was normal for a masseuse to stay with one studio for a year or two. You got to know them, and it was very, very sweet.

On the other hand, 20 years ago, I was paying $55 for a simple, half-hour r & t. Now I'm paying $30-$40, and depending where I am, getting a serious shiatsu massage thrown in.

Olde days or golden age, it all really depends on the individual masseuse, her instincts, her intuition, her inclination.

Right now, I'm delighted with Chinese masseuse I see regularly. But I have tremendous memories, too, from the aforementioned Lorna to more than one Caribbean masseuse conspicuously thrilled and amused by the sight of "the finish."

 

[Angelic Marie From Hell]

In the mid to late 90's, I remember seeing a MPA named Christina, she worked at a MP (forgot the name, and its closed now) on east side of Warden, south of Eglinton.

Chirstina, was an EE MPA, a mature individual probably the same age as Rosa of B&S. The greatest set of legs around and always wear the sexiest heels, as well a very nice natural set of racks.

Awesome services and I guess there's no harm in telling all since the MP is now gone and she has retired (I think). GFE, DFK, FS, DATY, Digit, anal(she loved this action), everything was bareback...and high, high mileage!!!

Very fond of Christina and wish she's still around. Best wishes to her and thanks for the great time!

 

[Pompal 09.]

I guess bareback wasn't the issue that it is now. Thing either weren't as bad or the real truth was not know yet.

 

[Mike G]

Rub & Tug was the standard but more was available. I never heard the word Body Slide but it sometimes simply happened without a discussion of cost - usually with a MPA that you had seen several times. Same with other things. If you tipped accordingly the treatment continued next time.

One of the attendants at Cynthia Robsons was the best "dirty talker" I have ever run into. I can get hard just thinking about it............mmmmmm...............sorry gotta go.

V12

 

[Andrei S]

Magda Toth (2025a Yonge St.) is still there --- she runs the studio and does still see clients - she has an older euro blonde working for her (as os 6 months ago). Her ad is in the Star occasionally...

Janet Bell was one of the great ones, and sadly I have been told she is deceased - I was told Breast Cancer - but don't know if that is true...

El Solar is now gone for good - place has been stripped to the bare walls by the landlord (closed after one too many raids)

Alas, it looks as if all the original places many of us cut our teeth on are gone...

 

[wiemercats]

Well, most are gone and one or two couldn't go fast--or far--enough.

I pungently recall my most humiliating experience. The masseuse showed me to the room and instructed me to undress. I lay there, she entered, administered 10 minutes' worth of perfunctory back strokes and said, "Finished."

"But....but....," I burbled. The word "release" pretty much didn't exist then and if it did, it represented an act so nefarious, I was too red-faced to talk about it.

She smirked. It was her barrel and I was over it. I suppose I could have knocked her block off, but even in the heat of the moment it was plain she wasn't worth it.

I left $45 poorer, stoop-shouldered, frustrated. Times are better now, thanks to ferocious competition, the Chinese, our ability to speak more forthrightly about our needs and pleasures and, of course, a massageplanet.net to get the word out via the cyber tom-tom.