London Contacts Issue 68 | Page 9

The Real Girlfriend Experience These days, when a man pays for a high-priced call escort, he wants more bang for his buck. Escorts are not known for kissing their clients, but today men are paying for high-priced escorts who are willing to kiss them, “date” them, and be their pretend girlfriends. It’s called the “girlfriend experience”, and escorts are no longer called hookers, prostitutes, whores or hos; they are now called “providers”. Customers, previously known as punters, or Johns, or dirty old men now refer to themselves as “hobbyists”. When men call up and want the GFE, (or the girlfriend experience), they ask for “a nice girl” which is escort code, since they don’t want to describe over the phone what sexual activity will be exchanged for money. This usually means that they want kissing and unprotected oral. It’s code for paying for things a girlfriend would do with her boyfriend such as foreplay, non-rushed sex, and cuddling, a concept interesting to any woman (and believe me there are many) who have had sex for free with no foreplay, two minutes of penetration, and zero cuddling. It’s also a trend explored by Steven Soderbergh in his 2009 film The Girlfriend Experience. The GFE starts with dinner at a nice restaurant followed by making out on the sofa back at her place - often her own flat, where the sexual menu generally includes - DFK (deep French kissing), BBBJ, (bare-back blow job), DATY (dining at the Y), mish (missionary), doggie, and if she’s really a good girlfriend A level (anal sex.) Between £200 and £1,200 buys you a dream girlfriend who is an eight (“totally hot”), a nine (“model material”), or even a ten (“I can’t believe it’s a service!”). Reading the provider reviews assures that you’ll never get a four (“only if you’re drunk”), a three (“homely”), a two (“ugly”), or a one (“I was really scared”). Many say that the girlfriend experience is popular because the men requesting it “want an intellectual and emotional connection”. For those aspiring to try a new “hobby” give the GFE a go! 7