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Call GirlA 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 cute 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 and to try to not draw the attention of law enforcement agencies. For these reasons, there is no cross-over between call girls and street prostitutes. A growing trend is for college women to work as call girls to pay for their college expenses. For such women, they view it as a way to make a lot of money for a little amount of time. Since call girls work during the evening, this enables them to attend classes during the day. Most are recruited by other coeds who are paying their way through college as call girls. Most quit being call girls after graduating to leave that life behind them and start a new life with their career. Others simply continue to work as call girls until either they get married (though some continue even after getting married) or feel they're too old thus unattractive to get the best-paying clients. Non-sex work Not all clients of call girls hire the women for sex. Some clients simply hire the call girl to chat. This is most commonly done by 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. The call girl will still get paid the same for the chat as they would if they were to have sex with the client. It is also not unusual for these "chat" call girls to receive big tips and even be included in the wills of these elderly customers. Another type of clients that hire call girls without requiring sex are men wanting 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. The call girl becomes an actress in these situations. Clients seeking this will tell the escort service that they're wanting to hire someone for a class reunion. It is common that the man will be very specific in the type of woman he wants to play the part of his date/girlfriend/wife. Usually, the client will have a meeting with the woman before accepting her to play this role. During this initial meeting, the man is not only evaluating the woman's appearance but level of intelligence, education, manners, speech, and ability to pull off the deception. Commonly, the man will have the woman read and memorize his resume and have a discussion about his past, her fake past, and their fake relationship so when she is asked by others at the event, she doesn't make a mistake that would reveal the truth. Almost always, the man will promise and give a big tip if everything goes well at the class reunion and she impresses all his old classmates. A growing trend is for women to hire male escorts to do likewise for them at their class reunions. 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 isn't uncommon for these men to eventually develop romantic feelings for these call girls, but the feelings are rarely returned. 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. In the Netherlands this has been done since 2004; although acting as a call girl or pimp / escort agency in the Netherlands, like being a client, is not illegal per se, until now in half of the cases the prostitute was a foreigner illegally staying or working in the country. The operation also serves to check the age of the prostitute: if he or she is below 18, the escort agency violates the law. To avoid entrapment 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 busted. 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 favor as far as the law is concerned is that they're out of the public's sight. The public almost always dislikes the sight of 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 over telephone and now the internet, the public rarely ever demands law enforcement to go after them. Those trying to legalize prostitution commonly use this sentiment to their advantage by telling the public that the best way to get rid of 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 properties. External links
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