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[edit] Escort agencies are where lonely men find conversation partners?? Not for the most part...check your local newspaper's back page advertisements

Hi, An editor has proposed that escort agencies help men meet women for "companionship". you know, dinner together, conversation...Um, I don't think so. Glance through the back pages of a big city newspaper in North America, and you will see escort ads saying "Sexxxy ladies, eager to please, big-busted, want to give you a good time. All ages, all types", or "Satisfy your urges with Lexxtasy, 44-26-36".... I don't think that they are selling dinnertime chat over Chianti at the Ritz Carleton. The evidence in newspaper ads suggests that escort agencies offer sex worker services. I have seen newspaper articles showing that a tiny minority of escort agencies offer non-sexual "dinner and date" services. Fine, but that should be characterized as the exception, not the rule. If an editor has sources showing that most escort agencies offer "companionship", please provide it.... ThanksM.O. (talk) 00:31, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

IMO, it is important to retain a separate article that explains what an escort service is. At Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#2006 Duke University lacrosse case there was discussion about a person who was publicly identified as an "escort," but not as a "prostitute". In order to be able to describe such a person accurately, it is necessary to preserve the distinction between "escorts" and "call girls". --Orlady (talk) 22:07, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Neologism alert on "buyout"

The section begins

Some escort services offer a buyout provision if a customer wishes to date an escort privately.

The use of "some" sounds like a weasel word. The lack of any other reference to "buyout" in the context of an escort agency strongly suggests neologism. Near as I can tell, the only use of the phrase is this particular incident.

I'll also comment that this whole situation seems to be a classic example of notability asymmetry. All the escort agency stuff at Wikipedia should not be decorated with the political remains of random politicians (he isn't the first and certainly won't be the last). Instead the governor's article can be festooned with references to escort agencies. mdf (talk) 02:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unintentional (?) Dry Humour

The fragment "The arm's length relationship between the escort and the escort agency" on the main page may be a bit tongue-in-cheek (facial cheek I trust). For sanitary reasons an arms-length might well be maintained literally, not just metaphorically. Carrionluggage (talk) 07:47, 14 March 2008 (UTC)