# Call girl > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Call_girl > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Call_girl.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_girl > Source revision: 1351049444 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Type of sex worker}} {{other uses}} {{redirect|Escort girl|the film|Escort Girl (film)}} {{pp-semi-indef}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox occupation | name = Call girl | image = Phone box prostitute calling cards 1 crop.jpg | caption = [Tart card](/source/Tart_card)s for call girls in a British [phone box](/source/Telephone_booth) | official_names = Call girl, female escort | type = [Prostitution](/source/Prostitution) | activity_sector = [Entertainment](/source/Entertainment), [sex industry](/source/sex_industry) | employment_field = [Escort agency](/source/Escort_agency) | related_occupation = [Courtesan](/source/Courtesan), [sex worker](/source/sex_worker) }} A '''call girl''' or '''female escort''' is a [prostitute](/source/prostitute) who (unlike a [street walker](/source/street_prostitution)) does not display her profession to the general public, nor does she usually work in an institution like a [brothel](/source/brothel), although she may be employed by an [escort agency](/source/escort_agency).{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/27/most-sex-workers-jobs-health-education-charities-survey|title=Most sex workers have had jobs in health, education or charities – survey|first=Diane|last=Taylor|date=27 February 2015|work=The Guardian}}[https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7819984.stm "Is the number of trafficked call girls a myth?"]. [BBC News](/source/BBC_News). (9 January 2009) The client must make an appointment, usually by calling a [telephone number](/source/telephone_number). The typical age of call girls ranges between late teens and mid-twenties, and on average they have a higher level of education than street prostitutes.{{cite book|title=The Prostitution of Women and Girls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FSNB0G7f4CsC&pg=PA54|first=Ronald B.|last=Flowers|publisher=McFarland|date=1998|isbn=9780786404902|chapter=Chapter 8: Call Girl Prostitutes|page=54}} Call girls have traditionally had a number of routes available to advertise their services, including [classified advertisement](/source/classified_advertisement)s in magazines and latterly via the Internet.{{cite newspaper|first=Diane|last=Taylor|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/11/gender.uk|title=Nice and sleazy does it|newspaper=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)|date=11 May 2000}} The use of online classified advertisement websites such as [Backpage](/source/Backpage) for this purpose has increased during the 21st century.{{cite journal|journal=International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology|title=The Marketing of Female Escorts: A Gendered Perspective of Online Companionship Advertisements|first1=Natalie M.|last1=Snow|first2=Dana|last2=Radatz|first3=Trisha|last3=Rhodes|volume=66|issue=10–11|date=26 April 2021|doi=10.1177/0306624X211010284}} An intermediary advertiser, such as an escort agency, may be involved in promoting escorts, though they are not normally handled by [pimp](/source/pimp)s. Call girl prices are typically significantly higher than those charged by brothel- and [street prostitutes](/source/street_prostitutes). Call girls may work either '''incall''', where the client comes to them, or '''outcall''', where they go to the client. Some [porn stars](/source/porn_stars) are known to escort as well, as a result of the financial decline of the [U.S. pornography industry](/source/Pornography_in_the_United_States) since the mid-2000s.{{cite magazine|title=When porn stars become escorts: Lucrative new trend could also be risky|author=Dickson, EJ|date=23 February 2014|url=https://www.salon.com/2014/02/24/when_porn_stars_become_escorts_lucrative_new_trend_could_also_be_risky/|magazine=Salon}} ==Internet== Many call girl agencies and independent call girls have their own websites. The internet has become the main medium through which customers find their desired escort.{{cite news| title = Sex Trade Monitors a Key Figure's Woes |newspaper = [The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) | date = 17 June 2008 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/us/17erotic.html | first=Matt | last=Richtel}}{{cite web |url= https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10879309|title= A consumer guide to prostitutes is a click away|access-date=11 April 2010 |work= NBC News |date= 20 January 2006}}{{cite web |url= https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10896432 |title= Several comfortable steps ahead of the law|access-date=11 April 2010 |work= NBC News|date= 20 January 2006}} Generally, a picture of the woman is provided, and sometimes, the type of sexual services she offers.{{Cite news|author=Quenqua, Douglas|title=Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist|newspaper=The New York Times|date= 17 April 2009|access-date=17 July 2017|url=https://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/fashion/19craigslist.html?referer}} ==Notable call girls== {{Multiple image | total_width = 320 | align = right | direction = horizontal | image1 = Brooke Magnanti at Leeds Skeptics.jpg | image2 = Portrait of Xaviera Hollander looking naughty.jpg | footer_align = left | footer = Call girls [Brooke Magnanti](/source/Brooke_Magnanti) and [Xaviera Hollander](/source/Xaviera_Hollander) }} * [Anette Dawn](/source/Anette_Dawn), Hungarian make-up artist, ceramist and professional sex worker * [Ashley Alexandra Dupré](/source/Ashley_Alexandra_Dupr%C3%A9), American call girl and entertainer involved in the [Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal](/source/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal) * [Suzy Favor Hamilton](/source/Suzy_Favor_Hamilton), former Olympic athlete who was revealed in 2012 to have been moonlighting as a high-end call girl * [Xaviera Hollander](/source/Xaviera_Hollander), Dutch former call girl, madam and author * [Jillian Lauren](/source/Jillian_Lauren), American writer and former call girl for [Jefri Bolkiah, Prince of Brunei](/source/Jefri_Bolkiah%2C_Prince_of_Brunei), about whom she wrote the memoir ''[Some Girls: My Life in a Harem](/source/Some_Girls%3A_My_Life_in_a_Harem)'' * [Brooke Magnanti](/source/Brooke_Magnanti), British writer and call girl whose blogs and books were adapted into the television programme ''[Secret Diary of a Call Girl](/source/Secret_Diary_of_a_Call_Girl)'' * [Mary Millington](/source/Mary_Millington), English model and pornographic actress ==See also== * [Courtesan](/source/Courtesan) * [Delivery health](/source/Delivery_health) * [Geisha](/source/Geisha), a class of female Japanese performance artists often confused with [sex worker](/source/sex_worker)s. * [Girlfriend experience](/source/Girlfriend_experience) * [Internet prostitution](/source/Internet_prostitution) * [Male prostitution](/source/Male_prostitution) ("call boy") * ''[Punternet](/source/Punternet)'' * [Sugar baby](/source/Sugar_baby) * ''[The Erotic Review](/source/The_Erotic_Review)'' ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://nymag.com/nymetro/nightlife/sex/features/12193/ "The $2,000 an-Hour Woman"] by [Mark Jacobson](/source/The_Lampshade%3A_A_Holocaust_Detective_Story_from_Buchenwald_to_New_Orleans), ''[New York Magazine](/source/New_York_Magazine)'', 18 July 2005. {{Prostitution}} Category:Escorts Category:Gendered occupations Category:Prostitutes by type Category:Sex industry --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Call girl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_girl) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_girl?action=history)). 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