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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Advice
7 piecesMassage Parlour, Agency or Independent: Which to Book
Three ways to book the same evening in London, with genuinely different trade-offs on price, certainty and who you actually meet. An…
Is Paying for an Escort Legal in the UK?
Yes in England, Wales and Scotland, no in Northern Ireland, and with one offence that carries no defence of ignorance. A plain…
What High Class Actually Buys You
The most overused phrase in the industry, attached to everything. What genuinely separates a high class booking from a standard one, and…
Petite, Busty, BBW, Mature: What the Listing Words Mean
Directory categories are vaguer than they look and vary from site to site. What each word tends to mean in London, and…
What TS Means on a London Escort Listing
TS, TV and CD appear across London listings and are used loosely by people advertising and misread by people booking. What each…
Booking an Escort in London for the First Time
What actually happens on the call, what to have ready, and the handful of things that go wrong for people doing this…
Services
2 piecesPornstar Escorts in London: When the Performer Is the Escort
Not the same thing as a PSE booking. What it means when an actual performer takes bookings, what it costs, and how…
Couples, Threesomes and Duos: Which Booking Is Which
Four different bookings that get described with the same three words. What a duo, a couples booking, an MMF and a bi…
Massage
12 piecesSoapy Massage in London: What to Expect
A Thai import that arrived in London with its name intact and its format changed. What a soapy massage involves here, how…
Four Hands Massage, and What Two People Actually Do
Two masseuses, one table, and a booking most people misunderstand before they try it. What four hands massage involves, why the synchronisation…
Thai Massage in London, and the Happy Ending Question
Traditional Thai massage and the thing people actually mean when they search for it are two different bookings. What real Thai massage…
Yoni Massage: What It Is and Who It Is For
The counterpart to lingam massage, and a far bigger search than most of the trade realises. What it involves, where it comes…
What a Happy Ending Massage Actually Means
The phrase everybody knows and nobody defines. What a happy ending massage is, what it is not, where the term came from,…
Naked Massage in London: What Nude Actually Means on a Listing
Nude massage is one of the vaguest words on the market. Who is undressed, what it includes, and what it does not…
Prostate Massage in London: What It Is and Who Offers It
One of the most searched massage services in the country and one of the least written about. What a prostate massage actually…
B2B Massage: What Body to Body Actually Means
Three letters on half the massage listings in London, standing for something simpler than people assume. What b2b involves, how it differs…
TS and Trans Massage in London
A small, specific corner of the London massage market. What TS massage means, how it differs from a standard booking, and how…
Nuru, Tantric or Erotic: Which London Massage Is Which
Three names used interchangeably by people advertising them, and three genuinely different things. What separates nuru, tantric and erotic massage, and which…
Lingam Massage: What It Is and Where to Find It in London
A tantric technique with a Sanskrit name, widely advertised and rarely explained. What a lingam massage involves, how it differs from an…
Outcall and Mobile Massage in London
What mobile massage actually means in London, why it costs more than going to her, and what a therapist does and does…
Working
2 piecesEscort Jobs in London: How Agencies Actually Hire
What the hiring process really looks like at a London agency, what gets asked, and how to read an advert before you…
How to Become an Escort in the UK
The practical version. What is legal, what it pays, what an agency actually does for its cut, and the questions worth asking…
Domination
4 piecesBooking a First Domination Session in London
The practical version: what to say on the first contact, what to expect on the day, what it costs, and the handful…
BDSM Meaning: What the Four Letters Actually Stand For
A compound acronym covering three overlapping things that get treated as one. What each pair of letters means, and why the distinction…
Submissive Meaning: What the Word Actually Describes
One of the most searched and most misunderstood words in the language. What submissive means, what it does not mean, and why…
Dominatrix and Mistress Bookings in London
What separates a professional dominatrix from an escort offering domination, what a session costs in London, and how to book one without…
London
2 piecesThe Nationality Mix in London Escorting
London escorting is more international than any other city in Europe. Which nationalities are actually well represented, why, and what it does…
Does London Have a Red Light District?
Short answer: not in the way Amsterdam or Hamburg do, and not any more. What Soho actually is now, what replaced the…
Prices
1 pieceWhat London Escorts Actually Cost, Area by Area
The honest version of London escort pricing: what the hourly rate really buys, why the same hour swings by £400 across the…