Courtesan Meaning: The Word and What Survives of It
A word with four hundred years behind it, still used on listings today. Where courtesan came from, what it actually described, London's…
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Every directory sorts people into the same handful of words and no two directories mean quite the same thing by them. They are useful as a starting filter and misleading as a promise. Here is what they generally mean here.
Small build, usually under about 5ft 4in and a dress size 6 to 8. It describes frame rather than height alone, which is why a tall slim woman is not usually listed this way.
It is one of the more reliable words on a listing, because it is hard to stretch. Petite listings.
The vaguest word in the set and the one to trust least. In London it tends to mean a D cup or above, but it is applied generously and inconsistently across the industry.
Most profiles state an actual bust measurement, and where they do, read that instead of the category. The number is checkable and the adjective is not. Busty listings.
Big beautiful woman. A fuller figure, typically size 16 and up. Unlike busty, this one is used fairly consistently, and it is a category people seek out deliberately rather than settle for.
It has its own established following in London and the listings reflect that rather than treating it as an afterthought. BBW listings.
The word that causes the most confusion, because it means something different here than in ordinary speech. On an escort listing mature generally means over about 35, not over 50.
If you are looking for genuinely older, the age is on every profile and it is the only reliable guide. What mature really signals in this industry is experience rather than a number, and that is usually what people are actually after when they filter for it. Mature listings.
Exactly what it says, and the one category where the boundary is not a matter of interpretation. Everyone advertised on this site is over eighteen and verified as such, without exception. 18-21 listings.
Use categories to narrow a long list, then ignore them. Every profile here carries height, dress size, bust and age as separate stated fields, and those are worth more than the adjective at the top, because they are specific enough to be wrong.
The photographs are worth more again. A listing whose stated details and photographs agree is telling you the truth; one where they do not is telling you something too.
Worth separating out, because they sit in the same filter bar and work differently:
Petite and BBW are reliable, busty is not, mature does not mean what it means elsewhere, and the stated measurements beat every category word on the page. Filter with the words, decide with the details.
Browse around Notting Hill or Hyde Park if you want to see the range across one area, or read what high class actually buys for the one category word that describes price rather than appearance.
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