The London Escort Guide

Is it legal?

Selling sex is legal in England, Wales and Scotland. It is illegal in Northern Ireland to pay for it. What is illegal around it in the rest of the UK: soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, running a brothel, and controlling another person for gain.

The brothel definition catches people out. In law it means premises used by more than one person selling sex, so two escorts sharing a flat for safety are technically running one. That is a genuinely bad piece of law rather than a comment on them.

One offence matters to you directly: paying for sex with someone who has been coerced is a strict liability offence. It does not matter whether you knew. If she was being forced or exploited, you have committed a crime. That is the whole reason to book somewhere that screens properly.

What it costs

London runs roughly £150 to £250 an hour in the outer boroughs, £250 to £400 across the centre, and £400 upward in Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Park Lane. Almost none of that spread is about the person. It is rent: a W1 incall costs several times the equivalent in Croydon, and it comes out of the hourly rate.

Anything priced far below the local range is a warning rather than a bargain. It usually means the photographs are not hers.

Outcall adds £30 to £60 and usually a ninety minute minimum, because an hour of unpaid travel gets wrapped around your booking. Overnights run eight to twelve hours at four to six hours’ worth of the rate, not twelve.

The vocabulary

Listings are written in shorthand. The ones worth knowing:

• GFE: the girlfriend experience. Unhurried and personal.
• PSE: the porn star experience. Faster, less romantic. The counterpart to GFE rather than an upgrade.
• OWO: oral without a condom. Not universally offered.
• CIM / COB / CIF: where oral finishes, in the mouth, on the body or on the face. Three separate agreements, and most cost extra.
• Deep throat: about depth, not protection. A separate line from OWO.
• DFK: deep or French kissing. The term that tells you most about how an hour will feel.
• DATY: oral performed on her. One of the few terms describing what you do.
• Rimming: oral to anal, listed as giving and receiving separately.
• A level: anal sex. Among the least offered and most expensive.
• Pegging: her penetrating you with a strap-on. Filed under domination.
• Nuru: body to body on a mat with nori gel. A technique, not a category.
• Prostate massage: internal, done to you, and filed under massage rather than anal.
• Happy ending: a parlour word for a massage that finishes by hand. Not used on these listings.
• FK: french kissing. DFK is the deeper version and they are listed apart.
• Swallow: the fourth of the CIM family and the least offered.
• B2B: body to body. Nuru without the mat.
• Erotic massage: the broad term. The named styles say more.
• Striptease: a performance rather than undressing. Worth asking for.
• Spanking: listed in two directions. Establish which.
• Role play: say it on the call, not in the room.
• Domination: a booking in its own right, priced above the hour.
• Submissive: the mirror of domination. Check which direction.
• BDSM: four things in one abbreviation. Name the part you mean.
• Foot worship: widely listed, rarely discussed. Notice helps.
• Fetish: the widest heading there is. You have to name yours.
• Party girl: comfortable with a night out. Not a drugs reference.
• Couples: one companion, two of you. Agree it between yourselves first.
• MMF: two men, one woman. Settle the arrangement before ringing.
• Bi duo: the two of them involved with each other, not only with you.
• Tantric: about pace rather than technique. Ninety minutes suits it.
• 69: listed apart because OWO and DATY do not imply it.
• BBBJ: bareback blow job, an American import meaning the same as OWO. Where both appear, it is one line written twice.
• MSOG: multiple shots on goal, meaning more than one finish inside the booked hour. Rarely standard, normally priced.
• Duo: two escorts, one booking, at roughly the two rates combined. See duo listings.
• Independent: she works for herself, no agency. See independent escorts.

How a booking actually works

Call or message with four things: who you want to see, when, how long, and whether it is incall or outcall. Giving all four at once turns three exchanges into one.

You will be asked for a name and sometimes a little more. That is screening, and it exists for her safety rather than to catalogue you. An agency that asks nothing is not being relaxed, it is being careless.

Payment is cash in almost every case, handed over at the start and not discussed again. Leave it somewhere visible rather than making a moment of it.

Etiquette, briefly

Shower first. Turn up when you said. Do not haggle, and do not push for something that was not agreed when you booked, which is the fastest way to end an hour early. If you need to cancel, say so as early as you can.

Read what an escort actually is if this is entirely new, and the reviews if you want to know how a particular booking tends to go.