An Escort is a Prostitute

those Escort agencies in the phone book are prostitution services in most cases.

LOL the news does stories on them every year during sweeps.

Same thing with massage parlors.

Yes their are legitamate Escort agencies of the "classic" (no sex) definition - but those are a distinct minority in RL.

At one time you were expected to bring a date to many functions - thats not exactly necessary these days. This is where the calssic Escort started out.

As for the company no sex - IRL they always just sell company - becuase selling sex is illegal. The sex is always "consensual and unplanned"

Um im really surprised people are this niave about RL , let alone SL.

There is a slight diffrence in semantics, but:
1) Escort services are stereotypicly used as a front for prostitution IRL
2) In SL, the term "escort" is used in place of prostitute, often wrongly, because most SL escorts aren't providing company, just av sex.

An escort is an escort. If they sell sex, then they stop being an escort and become a prostitute.

You can escort, go with people as a date, etc, without selling sex.

Its the selling sex that makes you a whore.

I have a good freind who worked as a stripper (topless only) at Club Expose'. I honestly believe none of the girls there sold sex.

I have escorted people around my island before.

Does that make me a prostitute? And if so...am I a suger-coated one?

Ok I will bite...
I do not agree with you.. I think escorts and prostitutes are very different...
Prostiutes will do anything for money, they are very low class and also known as street whores...
Escorts on the other hand as they may provide sex for money but they are of a higher class and the type of person that will present themselves as such, someone you can take to a dinner party or to the opera... you know?
ok done, I am already bored with this =/

<detects a soap box rant cloaked as a question>

i prefer the term sex-worker myself

hehe, this is so gramaticly flawed.

escort does not = prostitute. why? well because escort = escort and prostitute = prostitute

its like asking if being a baker is like being a butcher cause they both sell food *rolls eyes*

i'm an escort, never particularily enjoyed my clients overly, but they arnt bad either. i get money from it and thus get to spend money.

personaly dont think prostitution is a bad thing, maybe if it were not illegal, prostitutes might not be in such a bad situation with abusive pimps and such. since they could you know, get legal help to overcome harsh discrimination and such.

No no.. she is NOT splitting hairs, you are, Vola.

Thing is, you say that charging more money going to a swanky hotel with a nice posh bed to give a blowjob makes her different than the women in the ally dealing out Blowjobs for $50?

Thing is here, hon, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, smells like a duck, deficated like a duck... it's a duck no matter how much the difference in the amount of money they make or the type of hotel room they choose to do things in.

Second Life forbids the term prostitute thus Escort will do.

*shrugs*

[edit: if only I could type better with less typos]

Escorts get paid to dance, be eye candy, etc. They do not take money for sex. A prostitute, however, does.

BY DEFINITION

hmm well if you were escorting someone around an island then I guess you are an escort but not the same one im talking about. Im mean escort as in:

"Club SOmething or Other is Hiring Dancers and Escorts..."

Escorts of the fetish variety. Yes I understand that originally escorts were not the same as prostitutes in RL but it slowly became that way almost entirely. In SL ive never seen or heard of an escort service that wasnt about sex. But hey im not here to tell you its wrong (that should be obvious) Im just here to understand what ppl think about it.

Oh yeah and this is post number 100 for me..

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I saw this Escort late one night turning tricks:

yes you do, otherwise you would not bring in the part highlighted above. give it a rest, street walkers/hustlers/escorts/prostitutes/etc have had people banging bibles at them for thousands of years. a tip for you: in las vegas, when you see a asian massage parlor, it's a fancy word/cover for the girls wanting to do sexual acts along side the massage!

Actually...dancer or stripper either one is really the same basic thing. You are up there getting paid to move your body to music so other people can watch your body in what is typically a very sexual manner. Both the stripper and the non-nude dancer are selling the same product...just packaged differently. Both sell sex appeal.

So trying to say you are somehow different from a stripper when you are up there gyrating sexually to music and selling sex appeal for money or tips the same as the stripper is is a matter of very, very fine semantics. Saying otherwise puts you in as much denial as an escort who thinks they aren't a prostitute.

In effect you are a sugar coated stripper...

Oh, I wasn't being naive. I totally understand what you mean, but I was trying to stay apart from the drama this thread is causing. Let's face it... in SL, it's not real sex anyway, so who gives a damn what people call themselves.

A cover doesn't change the definition. If they sell sex, they are a prostitute. I have said this to peoples faces.

One of them is actually a freind of mine. He's male, too.

ok, you do have a point there.. But than its almost like saying that a car is a car is a car.. right?

I agree completely.

And if they are dancing to sell sex appeal for tips, they are and erotic dancer. Doesn't matter if you keep your clothes on or not. You are selling sex appeal and the cover doesn't really effect that at all. Dancer, stripper, they are all erotic dancers in the end.

OMG some people are so pent up lol.

Anyone that seriously thinks they'd never take money for sex has some serious issues.

I mean really...orgasms for fun and profit? Where do I sign up?

By the way I'm not an escort...or a prostitute...I'm a vampire dentist....but I'm pretty sure you can find something wrong with that in your big book of lies too.

Hmm thats true dancers and strippers both sell sex appeal, its just strippers specialize in well stripping. And there is a difference or else you wouldnt see ads like.

"Club Something or Other Hiring Hosts, Dancers, Strippers, Escorts..."

If they are hiring dancers and strippers then someone sees a difference. Quite honestly I dont care if you sugar coat it. I dont get mad that people call em escorts instead of prostitutes. Its like how I dont get mad when people call me A Caucasian instead of calling me white. Either way is fine with me.

That's not strictly true.. it's advertised as no sex because advertising prostiution is illegal.

Vampires, dentists, doctors, lawyers, politicians...all the same thing. Just sugar coated ways of saying "Blood-sucker".

I have serious issues, but none relating to sex. And I refuse to have sex for pay - its against my principles.

I've known several escorts - men and women who are witty, intelligent, charming, mannered, with decent wardrobes and decent-to-good looks. Their entire reason for being an escort: They were paid well to accompany young men (and sometimes women) on social dates, lunch dates, dinner dates, opera, company outings, awards events - any place where the client wanted a companion but did not want to have to roll dice and/or did not have time for / could not get a "steady" social companion to accompany them.

Whether the client's in town for a few days for a convention/awards dinner/presentation - and knew no-one in town - or simply wanted / was expected to have someone in a chair next to him/her to ensure their social standing in their corporation - or just wanted someone to talk with who will /listen/ and /engage/ instead of discussing sports/politics/job (gag me).

Five I can recall their names. One of these - a woman - enaged in/engages in sexual favours - if she /genuinely is attracted/ but not if she's merely solicited. The other four (two of which worked through a specific agency, two of which were independents) have occasionally been solicited and they not only stop the meet but also never meet that client ever.

There are very many prostitutes who call themselves "escorts" in order to skirt prostitution laws.
Stop helping them redefine the term to mean "prostitute".

LOL!