The question below about the real meaning of upscale got me thinking.  We need a dictionary for reading escort ads.  Here's a few definitions

18 yr old: I've been 18 yrs old since 1969 and I'm available 24/7
Actual photos / Guaranteed me: It's amazing what a pro can do with photoshop
Available 24/7: There's a sucker born every minute and I try to cater to all of them
Classy: Relative to my thuggish driver that is
College student: See 18yrs old
Cute: If I may say so myself
European: Eastern European to be precise
Exclusive: See upscale
Exotic: I couldn't think of a good word to describe how I look
I enjoy what I do: The money's great and I love the look on your face after I've ripped you off
I work alone / no driver: I have the meanest looking driver your neigbors have ever seen
Independent / Not an Agency: The reputation of our agency sucks so bad that we better keep it secret
Mature: I couldn't go on forever with the 18yr old shtick
Model: See porn star
New to the business: See 18yr old
No games: See available 24/7
Open minded: I'm always willing to try a new scam
Porn Star: I once made a unpayed appearance in an obscure video
Real GFE: I don't know what it stands for but I heard it increases business
Selective: See upscale
Unforgetable time: You'll remember that I ripped you off for a long time
Upscale: Expensive or conceited or both
VIP only: I don't care if you're a janitor so long as you can afford my astronomical rate

ha, ha. your post was very funny. man, you must have had some bad experiences. use ter, it screens some of this stuff.

and everytime I look at ads on Eros I'll be sure to refer to it.

you forgot the word courtesan

Pre Edwardian (term coming from further back of: courtisan or courtesian) deflowered woman of no virtue to be wed- who must sell her cooter in order to influence status in society circles. They all know shes hookin it. But shes too dam wealthy and fun for anyone to fck with . Especially since she literally holds the keeyhonees of some of socities  most notable officials kings and or policy makers in her little kit gloves..
Read the following for coffee cup discussion next week on Oprah

The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco
Memoirs of a Courtesan 19th Cent Paris
Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour  
Encyclopedia of Mistresses by Dawn B. Sova

tee hee dam its good to be bad
xo
mo

A little more on Veronica Franco: Legendary Woman

Veronica Franco


No more words! To deeds, to the battlefield, to arms!
For, resolved to die, I want to free myself
from such merciless mistreatment.
Should I call this a challenge? I do not know,
since I am responding to a provocation;
but why should we duel over words?
If you like, I will say that you challenged me;
if not, I challenge you; I’ll take any route,
and any opportunity suits me equally well.
Yours be the choice of place or of arms,
and I will make whatever choice remains;
rather, let both be your decision….

Come here, and, full of most wicked desire,
braced stiff for your sinister task,
bring with daring hand a piercing blade.
Whatever weapon you hand over to me,
I will gladly take, especially if it is sharp
and sturdy and also quick to wound.
Let all armor be stripped from your naked breast,
so that, unshielded and exposed to blows,
it may reveal the valor it harbors within.
Let no one else intervene in this match,
let it be limited to the two of use alone,
behind closed doors, with all seconds sent away….

To take revenge for your unfair attack,
I’d fall upon you, and in daring combat,
as you too caught fire defending yourself,
I would die with you, felled by the same blow.

O empty hopes, over which cruel fate
forces me to weep forever!
But hold firm, my strong, undaunted heart,
and with that felon’s final destruction,
avenge your thousand deaths with his one.
Then end your agony with the same blade.

-Veronica Franco (1546-1591), from Capitolo 13, excerpted from Terze Rime c. 1575, subtitled “a playful challenge to a lover”.

Veronica Franco was born in Venice in 1546. At the end of her arranged and loveless marriage at the age of 20, she was to become what was then called piu honorate cortigiane, or what we would today call “whore” (the more congenial English word being courtesan). So skilled was Miss Franco at her chosen profession she was listed in the Il Catalogo di tutte le principale et piu honorate cortigiane di Venezia, which I imagine translates to mean “The Top Sluts of Venice” or something to that effect. In her lifetime, she survived giving birth to six children, three of whom died while still in infancy, managed to escape the bubonic plague when it hit Venice from 1575-77, and even stood before in Inquisition on charges of witchcraft (many of the citizens of the city turned on their once-celebrated poetess, believing the arrival of the plague in Venice to be a divine punishment for their former indulgences). I find her to be one of the more fascinating women of history and a remarkable wordsmith.

And the less freedom we have,
the more our blind desire, which drives us off the path,
will find a way to penetrate our heart;
so that a woman either dies from this
or moves away from the restricted life that we all share
and owing to a small mistake is led far astray.

-Capitolo 22, Terze Rime