$3,000 a night call girls.

Factual Questions
1

Okay, watching a re-run of the West Wing last night, I was intrigued by a little sub-plot involving Sam (Rob Lowe) and a $3,000 a night call girl.

So I got to thinking (always dangerous), what does one get from a $3,000 a night hooker that you can’t get from a $500 a night hooker. I mean, is it stimulating conversation? Better outfits? Knowledge about the difference between a seafood and salad fork? A chance for your friends to see you with a really high class prostitute versus a more reasonably priced one (kind of like renting a Jaguar instead of the Lincoln)? So what does one get for the extra $2,500? 'Cuz at the end of the date, either one is a sure thing.

2

The price difference reflects the product you are renting. I hate to be crass, but that’s the way things are. For $500 you can get a hooker. You pay her for sex. For $3,000, you pay for a date for the night, a well dressed and (relatively) educated woman who only the most descerning eye will peg as a prostitute. You also get sex, and presumably good sex. She is also presumably very attractive. Not so with the $500 variety.

At the end of the night, either one is hard to justify. One thing to keep in mind, a lot of guys like paying for sex, so the more expensive the better.

3

So what do you get for $45.00 hookers? As I walk the streets of DC, I often hear them shouting into the open windows of the cars that are driving 'round and 'round.

4

While I have zero experience with $3000 call girls, I suspect what you are buying is discretion and privacy.

5

See that dark alley over there?

6

Here in Atlanta, we’re in the midst of the infamous “Gold Club Trial,” in which the owners of an upscale strip club are being prosecuted for alleged racketeering and credit card fraud. Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve read reports of patrons whose credit cards were charged in excess of $20,000, and all they ever got to do was WATCH!! By comparison, a $3,000 call girl doesn’t seem like such a bad deal! :slight_smile:

7

Hey for $500, I better get something a little nicer than a crack-ho!

8

Not strictly on topic, but 2 observations:

In the wake of the Charlie Sheen & friends hooker scandal, Heidi Fleiss was asked why some of the most attractive, famous, eligible bachelors in the world would have to pay for sex. She replied trenchantly: “They’re not paying you for the sex; they’re paying you to go away afterwards.” (Found in Steven Pinker’s wonderful book “How The Mind Works”)

In a course on negotiating strategy, Roger Dawson cites the “call girl principle,” namely that “the perceived value of any service declines precipitously once the service has been rendered.”

9

I have a 34 year old friend who is the Engineering VP of a successful software company… but he’s a geek. He works at least 100 hours a week and while he meets people every day, there is zero chance of him hitting on someone and getting involved in a real relationship. He’s just too busy and focused on his work. Kinda sad really… but that’s the way it is for him.

So what does he do? He buys dates. Now in this age of AIDS he’s not about to pick up some girl on the corner and take a chance. He’s too smart for that. So he’s found a “service” which will supply him dates whenever and where ever he wants. If he’s in Boston at a conference he calls some number and viola! a girl shows up at his hotel. But you would never know these are call girls. They are very attractive, very smart and fit in to any situation you can imagine. He sometimes uses the same girl over and over to give the appearance that he is dating when in fact it’s just a cover. He brought this one girl to the x-mas party and she was the hit of the party. She clung onto him like they were old friends and she acted the part perfectly. Only a few of us knew who she was and that she would be gone before he woke up in the morning.

I don’t think he pays cash for these women but is descretly invoiced once a month or maybe it hits his credit card instead. He pays a lot and is guaranteed a good time AND doesn’t have to worry about STD’s or pregnancies.

He has no intention of getting married in the near future and since money isn’t a problem for him (he probably makes $200K a year and lives alone in a one bedroom apartment) he can afford to spend it on women. Although I can’t say for sure I would imagine he pays $2-3K a pop for these ladies and trust me… they are hot.

10

You would be amazed how many guys will hire call girls and not have sex with them.

My understanding (and it’s limited, since I’ve never been a client, but I dated a girl once who had been a call girl) is that expensive prostitutes are basically what you’ve described - intelligent, graceful women who a man can take out with him or, if he’s got the bucks, on a business trip. You’ll find many escort agencies have travel rates.

There’s also the issue of time. Escorts usually work by the hour; a reasonably classy service will charge you $250 an hour and up. So a two-hour visit from ABC Escorts might cost you $500, but if you want someone to go out on a date with you AND go back to the hotel room and stay a long time, and you’re up to eight hours, the price quadruples even though the rate is the same. Plus, escorts will usually negotiate fees for unusual services, which, according to my date, is anything beyond oral sex and regular intercourse. So your $250 an hour call girl can become a $3000/night expense in a damn hurry.

And where do they get the women to do this (And there are a lot of them?) A surprising number are college students. Many don’t work for the escort services at all, but are freelancers who put their names through multiple agencies.

11

You get a very nasty rash.

12

I know and am neighbors with one of the $3000/night girls.

No, I’m not a client, and no, you can’t contact me for an introduction. :stuck_out_tongue:

I am her neighbor, and for reasons unknown to me, she seems to trust me, so I’ll be really careful about what information I place here.

First, she has a day job, which pays reasonably well, but isn’t a traditional 9-to-5 kinda gig. It’s a… creative… kind of job, and while it allows her to be “creative”, it’s a feast-or-famine kind of thing. Escorting fills in the gaps and allows her to live better than she would otherwise. It also allows her contact with levels of society she wouldn’t ordinarily see, the opportunity to dine at top-flight restaurants, attend sold-out Broadway productions, and generally provides a lifestyle she enjoys. She tells me that she also very much enjoys the sex, especially as the kind of clients (not all men!) she caters to tend to be good in bed. It seems that education comes with money, and educated people, on the whole, are better lovers.

What she claims to provide is intelligent conversation (Yup. She’s got that), discretion, beauty (Oh, yes. Definately got that), warmth, and very good sex (No idea, and likely will never know. Just as well). She ‘works’ about twice a week, and the scale ranges from $1500 for theater, dinner, and an evening, to $4500 for a fly-away weekend (customer pays airfare, accomodations and all expenses, in addition to fee). She’s shrewd, educated, friendly, and cautious as all hell. Weird combination. Hell, she even pays taxes on her escorting income, listing it as consultancy fees.

She’s not typical, but she assures me that she’s not an annomaly, either. She’s also mentioned an ‘acquaintance’ That bills out $24,000 per weekend, only takes weekend-long gigs, and will be retiring from the Life soon, at the dusty old age of 26. As a multi-millionare. I dunno if she’s pulling my leg, but her ‘acquaintance’ works the DC-London-Paris circuit, so I suppose it’s possible.

There you are. More than you ever thought you’d hear on the subject.

[sub]Oh, and the $45.00 gets you a social disease or a visit to the local lock-up when she turns out to be part of the vice squad.[/sub]

13

The clap.

14

I am single and I was once talking about exactly this with a married co-worker. I said “You’d have to be crazy to pay $3000 for sex. I don’t get it” and he said “what I don’t get is the guy who pays $45. I’d rather pay $3000, even if it is only once in a lifetime, and experience something I’ll never experience otherwise”. … It made me think… this guy was getting $45 sex from his wife… he could not understand paying to get the same thing… he would rather save and get the $3000 deal…

Myself… I’m both poor and cheap… but if I could get the $3000 deal on sale for $45 I think I’d go for it. Do they have sales? :wink:

There’s no way I’d pay $3000 for a job and the $45 jobs… those I do them myself and I have saved a fortune.

A guy I know has an even better system. He says:“When I’m horny, I take a $50, fold it carefully, place it on the floor and step on it with my right foot. I then jack off and when I finish and move my foot I say to myself ‘oh my gosh! I am so lucky! I just found $50!’”

15

This reminds me of a joke:

Why do engineers like to have a wife and a mistress…

So each one will think he is with the other and he can go to the lab and get some work done.

Well it was funny when I first heard it.

16

I think they like roses and chocolate, but hookers are notoriously hard to shop for…

17

A hand-job, most likely.

If she goes any further… crabs.

18

To follow up Tranquilis, I used to live in Dallas and my tax guy told me a few of his clients were SMU coeds who were the 3000 a night types. He set up bogus companys for them. They also paid taxes on the money.

19

Boy, I left myself wide open for that one. I guess it turned out not to be such a hard poser after all. I’m not going to let you guys get off any more stiff one liners & rim shots from anything else that comes from my mouth.