'Widows a speciality, spinsters delighted': Business card from 'Percy Long Prong' offering services for 10 shillings an hour - including 15 shillings for 'three strokes' with a whip as extras - is found during house restoration

 A business card from a 'Percy Long Prong' offering services that will leave spinsters 'delighted,' at a cost of 10 shillings an hour has been found during restoration work on a house.

The card, which was posted on Reddit shows how he charged customers up 50 shillings a night - and they'd also get their money's worth, with 'two times guaranteed'.

But buyers beware - Percy offered a strict 'cash before mounting' policy. 

Filled with a list of his services and a section on 'extras' the X-rated card promises to give 'extra attention to neglected married women.'

However, widows appear to be Percy's 'speciality'. 

While the source of the find is unknown, the card lists a variety of services including 'saliva exchange,' 'whips and scourges,' and the mysterious 'bubble shake'. 

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A business card belonging to 'Percy Long Prong,' was unearthed from beneath the floorboards of an old house last week. It guarantees satisfaction and describes widows as a 'specialty' - but customers are warned to pay cash 'before mounting'

Percy Long Prong's list of 'services' - with some offerings that have left the internet stumped 

Percy's calling card has a list of services which has left internet users scratching their heads over their meaning.

Although some are obscured by what looks like paint, there are a selection that are clearly visible.

If you're in need of vaseline, Percy's willing to provide, but it will set you back five old English pennies.

Mr Long Prong was willing to bring whips into the bedroom, but three strokes cost 15 shillings. 

For sharing of saliva - maybe kissing - Percy charged a flat rate of two shillings.

And French ticklers - a ribbed condom - cost the same. He also offered a bubble shake for nine pennies. 

Despite an internet searching, the phrase doesn't seem to have survived the digital age, with social media users posting a number of X rated suggestions for what it could mean.Posting the card on image sharing website Imgur, an unnamed user wrote: 'Friend works as restorer. Just found this under floorboards of old property he’s working on.' 

Potential customers are guaranteed satisfaction, but it would cost them 10 shillings for an hour - or 15 for the whole night.   

Percy's card also pledges: 'Maidens treated gently,' and 'spinsters delighted.'

Social media users were delighted with that pledge, as one wrote: 'That’s a male prostitute with class.'

Vaseline, 'if needed,' would cost 5 pence, while there are specific services that include the words 'caress,' 'positions,' and 'insertions'.

Adjusted for inflation, Percy's top price of 50 shillings for a night alone looks to be worth around £50 in today's money. 

The comical card may not be all it appears though - as it jokes 'Percy gives Green Shield stamps,' a sales promotion scheme dating back to the 1950s. 

Responding to the picture, which has also been 'liked,' more than 18,000 times on Twitter, one person wrote: 'I also love the idea of buying a blender or something with green shield stamps from Mr Long Prong.' 

Another said: 'Green shield stamps too. No wonder my granny had so many.'

Given the reference to Green Shield stamps, and the use of old money, the card appears to date between 1958 and 1971 - when Britain converted to modern currency. 

Despite that, it boasts that Percy treats offers all customers a 'satisfaction guarantee'.  

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A night with Percy would set a customer back about 50 shillings, which amounts to roughly £50 in today's money - but there were more charges 'extra attention' such as whippings, a 'saliva exchange,' and vaseline of...

More than 133,000 people have looked at Percy's services since it was shared online last Friday. 

Given its bizarre content and lack of contact details there are questions over whether the card is authentic, with some suggesting it is an old joke from the 1960s. 

One user looks to have discovered the card's origin, writing on Imgur: 'This is a joke card. Friend made “Rent-A-Scandal“ cards and left them around.'

Friends was a 1960s magazine, designed as the British equivalent of Rolling Stone. 

Some were confused by the pre-decimalisation money listed on the card, others by some of the services on offer. 

One person asked: '...what is a bubble shake?'  

Another commented: 'As a spinster librarian, I'm intrigued.'

Among plenty of questions over the bizarre find, one read: '"Plain and Fancy" does that refer to the women of the type of service?' 

One husband wrote: 'Today I learned I should be charging my wife A LOT of money.'

A dog owner declared: 'Our Dachshund, Percy has a new addition to his name.'

Did you find Percy Long Prong's calling card? Email luke.may@mailonline.co.uk. 

From despised 'gigolos' to a competitive market - demand for male escorts grows in the UK  

One of the first published uses of the term 'gigolo' was in the 1920s, when American writer Edna Ferber described the profession as 'a man who lives off women’s money'. 

Claiming the term came from France, she wrote: 'For ten francs or more, or even less, would dance with any woman wishing to dance on the crowded floors of public tea rooms, dinner or supper rooms in the cafés, hotels, and restaurants of France.'

Piccadilly Circus in London was once a well-known spot for meeting male escorts, along with other prostitutes.

Today male prostitution is common in the UK, a 2017 study found the UK offered the fourth-highest amount of male escorts for women in the world, only behind Mexico, Brazil and the United States.

A worldwide study found the number of professional women seeking sex soared threefold between 2012 and 2017, with the average hourly rate in the UK being £150, while some are prepared to pay thousands if the escort stays for the whole weekend, the study found.

Professor John Scott, of the Crime and Justice Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, said: 'It is assumed that men are the primary market for male escorts, and while it is true that most escorts target male clients, our survey suggests a significant emerging market for women who pay for sexual services from men.'