to ask if you would hire a male escort for the evening?

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A male friend has given up his full time job so he can share custody of his 2 DD's - still working but not earning as much as needs to be around when DD's stay with him.
He has come up with the idea of hiring himself out as a dinner companion / 'plus one' for anyone who wants a bit of company without any romatic / relationship conotations - or a corporate or family thing where they want a companion rather than go solo. Strictly nothing sexual.
So - would you ever consider hiring a chap for the evening and how much would you be prepared to pay?

How deeply unpleasant that someone takes advantage of such women by charging them for sex, which is also illegal.

Amazing, people with disabilities and mental health issues can get sex without having to use prostitutes!

x posts takemehome.

i don't really care if someone has a disability to be honest - sex is not a 'right', and I still think prostitute use by either sex is deeply immoral.

Or what expat said, put far more articulately (is that a word?) than me.

To me it's immoral because it exploits people, that's what prostitution does.

No. I would rather use the money to hire a cleaner and go to events on my own.

Lots of women who have physical disabilities or mental health problems feel much more comfortable in hiring an escort than they do in "hooking up" in the socially accepted "normal" way.

so do you find it acceptable for a woman in that 'category' (hate the word, but what else can i call your phrase) to have to pay for company? i'm horrified if you do!

LOL that this guy felt he was providing a service to people! How benevolent.

Yes I would. I have a wonderful DH but if I ever found myself in the position of being alone and had a function to attend, I would consider it.

I'd look into hiring the fittest escort and show him off as my own (lol)

I wouldn't want the whispers and looks of being on my own so I would try to stop that by hiring an escort :)

God no.
If you need someone so badly to be your plus one, wouldn't you want someone who knows you? What sort of 'boyfriend chat' would he have with elderly aunts at a wedding say, if he doesn't know what you do, your hobbies or even mutual acquaintances.

Though I suppose he could use the not having sex time to study a dossier on your habits and personality.

No fan of anyone paying for sex. That way exploitation lies.

Whispers and looks?
Really?

Dh is frequently away and if I do get the chance to go out (babysitter willing)I take it. I've been to weddings/corporate events solo and never given it a second thought.

Never in a million years. Am I missing all these events that you simply can't attend on your own? If my husband is away or doesn't want to come to a work event or a wedding, I just show up at stuff- is everyone really gossiping about me being on my own, I very much doubt it.

Plus, whether he offered extras or not, obviously drunk desperate women of the paying type probably would come on to him and I can imagine it could get messy.

Being physically disabled is a red herring, if you read the relationship boards, there are plenty of so-called non-disabled people who can't find nice partners, I don't think any of them should pay another human being to sexually service them.

x posts with wordsonapage, obviously we have been missing all those 'whisper and looks' (perhaps they are wondering where our husband are?)

Yuk - never. If it was a work do then I would be there networking and if it were a purely social thing then the hosts would know I was single anyway. I might take a male friend to something but pay - no way.

he's not going to do very well without giving it up in fairness.

I'm with whoever said they'd rather spend the money on a cleaner.

I would certainly hope that were I single and in a high-powered job, I'd have the confidence and cajones to go it alone at corporate events. Can't imagine I'd have great self-esteem if I felt it necessary to have a paid male companion, despite being respected professionally.

Only if he was gorgeous and put out.

Haha! at lequeen.

Yes you might have to speak to some good-looking albeit plank thick bloke about such subjects as football or pimp my ride.

And who gives a bollocks if someone whispers and looks if you are at an event on your own?

I am normally so surrounded by a flock of admiring men that I wouldn't notice anyway that is a lie

And there is nothing more DULL than having to take your partner to corporate events. You have to talk to them and everything to stop them being bored as they know nobody and don't get the (admittedly hideously unfunny) corporate in-jokes.

Does anyone remember that programme about male escourt-prossies with that man who drove about servicing clients in his shag-van?

Fab.

Not in a million years

If I needed company or moral support at a posh do and I had a plus one - I'd take a friend.

If I was lonely and wanted male company I'd do internet dating

If I wanted a shag I'd go and find someone who wanted to shag me

"Lots of the people who booked for social events were women with extremely busy lives who wanted or felt that they needed to have a man with them at these events. The majority had powerful well paying jobs. "

Amazed at this. Powerful women who need to have a man along - any man? 21st century ahoy? It's nice to have someone along with you, but why is a stranger who you brought along any better than the bunch of strangers who are already there?