Call girl
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A call girl is a prostitute who is not visible to the general public, like a street walker, and who does not usually belong to an institution like a brothel. One must summon her, usually by calling a telephone number—hence the name call girl. Often, call girls advertise their services in small ads in magazines, although an intermediary such as an escort agency, pimp or a pander may be involved.
Call girls can work either "incall," where the client comes to them, or "outcall," where they come to the client.
Call girls are commonly perceived to be elite amongst prostitutes, far more skilled, able to pick and choose amongst their potential clients and therefore demand higher prices for their services, and are more attractive, educated, and youthful than street prostitutes. An escort service will not take on any woman that is unattractive, has a visible drug problem (such as needle marks from injecting drugs), or has an overly negative persona. Unless they specialize in tattooed women, escort services will usually not take on any women that have anything larger than a small tattoo. Escort services seek to establish a reputation for offering desirable women and know that their customers only give them one chance. If an escort service sends an undesirable woman to a client, the client will very likely not use their service again. Also, many escort agencies do criminal background checks on applicants to weed out those that have been arrested for street prostitution. This weeding out is done to reduce the chances of being accused of being sellers of prostitution, trying not to draw the attention of law enforcement agencies. For these reasons, there is rarely any cross-over between call girls and street prostitutes.
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Non-sex work
Not all clients hire call girls for sex. Some simply do so to chat. This is most common in elderly rich men that simply enjoy the company of a beautiful woman. Escort agencies try to determine if this is what a client wants and if it is, the agency will try to send their most educated and polite women to this customer. It is not unusual for these "chat" call girls to receive big tips or even bequests from clients.
Another type of clients who do not ask for sex are those who want to impress others by having an attractive woman as their date, if not pretend to be their girlfriend or even wife. This is most commonly done by men with low self-esteem going to a high school or college class reunion or a social event at their office. Clients seeking this will tell the escort service that they're wanting to hire someone for a class reunion. These clients often specify in detail what kind of woman to play this role. The client may have a meeting with the woman beforehand to evaluate the woman's level of intelligence, education, manners, speech, and ability to pull off the pretence as well as her appearance. They would go over his past, her past (often fake), and their fake relationship. This way she does not give away the truth when questions come.
Call girls and celebrities
Male celebrities and rich men commonly hire call girls for dates and usually sex afterwards simply to avoid what they view as hassles of dating women. For these men, call girls enable them to have fun without the fear of rejection and/or commitment. Both parties understand their respective positions and do not go beyond it. Some of these men are even open about what their date is to those they're partying with, though some call girls request they not be. These "dates" can include flying by private jet to Las Vegas, staying at in a luxury hotel suite, going to the finest restaurants, dancing at the hottest nightclubs, and gambling at the casinos. Usually, the men will first hire the woman for a short date to determine if he wants to do longer ones (such as the one just mentioned) with her. Here again, the woman's appearance, intelligence, manners, socialibility, and education comes into consideration. Interestingly, it is relatively common for these men to eventually develop romantic feelings for these call girls, but the feelings are rarely returned.
City tours
In Europe, the system of City Tours is getting more and more popular, in cities such as Paris, Rome, Amsterdam or Zurich. Eastern European call girls, from countries such as Russia, Hungary, Romania or Ukraine are brought by agencies for short stays not exceeding two weeks. The agencies book a room in a business hotel for them, where they receive customers all day long. This system takes its toll on the call girls, who are relentlessly exploited during their short stay in Western Europe, and they rarely make more than three or four of them. For the customers, also called punters, this allows to have available an ever renewed supply of fresh girls.
Internet
Most call girl agencies and independent call girls are now online, and the Internet has become the main venue for a customer to find his match. Generally, the picture of the girl is provided, and sometimes, the type of sexual services she is willing to offer. Because offering sexual services in exchange for money is illegal, this is rare. Certain code words in the subculture of sex work have emerged to communicate in lieu of description of explicit acts. For instance GFE, an acronym for "girlfriend experience" usually implies that an escort will have a warm personality, be willing to kiss the client, and perform oral sex without a condom barrier. Some agencies also propose for a high fee people of special interest, such as twins, former porn stars, B-List models, prodommes or even submissives.
The Internet is also used by punters/hobbyists to provide evaluation of the call girls they have met and rate them, on their aesthetics, behavior or sexual performances. For the readers of these evaluation web sites, the rating of the call girls is often a determining factor in their selection.
This has led some customers to blackmail call girls by threatening of a bad rating in order to obtain more sexual services or a discount on the rate. Some call girls also cheat by logging stellar evaluations of themselves on these sites.
Sting operations
Sometimes the police carry out a sting operation: a police officer, posing as a client, summons a call girl to a hired hotel room, or as a call girl, summons a prospective client.
In the Netherlands this has been done since 2004: although neither buying nor selling a call girl's services is illegal per se, until now in half of the cases the women have been a foreigner illegally staying or working in the country. The operation also serves to check the ages of the service provider and the receiver: if one of them is below 18, the escort agency breaks the law. To avoid entrapment allegations the police do not specially ask for a foreign or very young call girl.
In India this was done in May 2004: for the first time a prostitution ring using Internet to solicit customers has been raided. A decoy client ordered two call girls to a hotel. Three pimps were arrested under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA).
Public perception of call girls
One thing that call girls have in their favour, as contrasted with street prostitutes, is that they're out of public sight. In some countries the public dislikes seeing street prostitutes in or near their communities and usually actively campaigns for local law enforcement to arrest these women. Since call girls try not to draw attention to themselves and conduct their business beyond public sight, the public seldom call for law enforcement action. Those trying to legalize prostitution commonly use this sentiment to their advantage by telling the public that the best solution for street prostitution is to legalize prostitution arranged over the telephone and/or internet. This "out of sight, out of mind" argument carries the most weight with the public that opposes street prostitution due to it driving down the value of their real estate. (See also NIMBY)
External links
- Escort Services In A Border Town: Transmission dynamics of sexually transmitted infections within and between communities - study regarding Windsor, Ontario, with also sections on prostitution in Nevada and the Netherlandsda:Callgirl