Synonyms for prostitutes.

[Perry Lassiter]

Here are directions to today's selection from Delancey Place. Not titillating, but approaching scholarly.

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[Slava]

Yes, an interesting article. Yet it does pass over a more modern take on the subject. Is not a gigolo a prostitute also? Do we have any euphemisms for the male side of the oldest profession?

[Perry Lassiter]

Male prostitute is the only one that comes to mind. Isn't a gigolo not an overt prostitute, but a guy who cuts a swath through the society matrons with a view to living off them?

[Slava]

Isn't a gigolo not an overt prostitute, but a guy who cuts a swath through the society matrons with a view to living off them?

Ah, as opposed to a courtesan?

[Perry Lassiter]

I almost said that.

[bnjtokyo]

rent-boys, hustlers, models, masseurs But 'nuf said

[Philip Hudson]

Boy toys.

[Perry Lassiter]

I thought a boy toy was a playmate for a cougar.

[Philip Hudson]

It is, Perry, but a price has to be paid by the cougar. Boy toys don't just grow on trees.

[Perry Lassiter]

I only know what I see in the movies. But I suspect said boy toys often stalk said cougars.

[Philip Hudson]

As do ladies of the night stalk Johns.

[Slava]

Oy, I be a weak-minded Agoran. How could I have forgotten cicisbeo? A pox upon me.