Prostitution 2.0: The Call Girl

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Firstly, a “call girl” is a glorified prostitute, who take clients by appointment on the telephone. In Prostitution in the Digital Age: Selling Sex from the Suite to the Street by R. Barri Flowers. Flowers describes a call girl as a college education, attractive, business savvy young women. Call girl’s are described to give to give the ‘girlfriend experience,’ but unlike a sugar baby there is heavy emphasis on the sexual side. Unlike a sugar baby, where sex isn't mention as a necessary part of an arrangement, an escort goes into the interacting knowing that sex is highly likely. Flower describes the difference between prostitute and call girl is, "...appearance, money, and class." While prostitutes and female escorts both engage in sexual acts, …show more content…

In the 21st century, the internet has become a tool that’s helped the call girl provide their own advertisements and get clients. In “Prostitution 2.0: The Internet and the Call Girl” by Scott Cunningham and Todd Kendall, they examine the effects of the internet on female escorting. Cunningham writes, “...the amount of information that can be published is substantially higher than what is possible during a brief encounter on the street or in pre-internet media such as newspaper.” As a result of the technological advances of the 21st century, it’s easier for call girls to be more active in screening and communicating with clients. Additionally, it’s become harder for law enforcements to police sites that display advertisements for female escorts. For example, Craigslist, a site where anyone can upload advertisements in a variety of different sections like jobs, resumes, and personal, the site even has an “erotic services” section where these ads can be visibly seen by the public. Additionally, there is a website called TheEroticReview.com, that allows clients of prostitutes and call girls rate their experience and define their physical …show more content…

The increasing amount of sugar babies on college campus reflects the unachievable and the unaffordable amount that college prices have become. And, in turn have, effectively put a price on a girl’s education where she’s forced to turn to nontraditional ways to obtain money. For 700 and 800 dollars for just one meeting where you impress an older man with compliments and praise, instead of trying to manage 2 jobs while continuing to keep up your school work and extracurricular activities. Sugaring is probably the easiest way to make money, and as a result, one 9-year-old girl now aspires to become a sugar baby. Call girls also enter sex for economic reasons. In New York City, working for an escort agency charge from $200 to $1,500 per hour, and for call girls that go on an out call, where the call girl will go to the client for as long as he choose, can bring in thousands of dollars. One escort can made 29,000 for a weekend escorting with her client, and another was flown to New York and her client wrote a 16,000 check for her. Young women, in need of money to financially support themselves sugaring and escorting are two viable options. Natalie McLennan, former top escort, talks about why she got involved in escorting. She says, "I was a struggling, a starving artist, living in Manhattan, trying to succeed." Add prostitutes into this

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