Tart Cards and a very brief history of the sex industry on the WWW

Tart Cards and a very brief history of the sex industry on the WWW

Some of my first regular sex industry clients came about after the Tart Cards were banned in London’s phone boxes in 2001. Tart Cards were advertisements the size of a postcard that usually had illustrations or fake photos and some brief details about services offered and the phone number. They were tacked to the walls of phone booths by “carders” throughout London or outside the doors of the walk-ins.

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