The concepts of prostitution and escort
service do not always cover each other, because not all escorts are
prostitutes. Prostitution always involves paid sexual activity between a client
and a sex worker, but escort service in its literal sense does not always
involve sexual activity. In the original sense of the word, an escort is a
person who provides a company on a typically social occasion (e.g. a business
dinner), and the purchase of an escort does not necessarily mean the purchase
of her body and her sexual services, just her time and her company within the
purchase time frame. Apart from the pleasant appearance, it is also expected that
an escort should be able to do decent and pleasant social interactions as well,
that is to say, to communicate well with people, make a pleasant impression,
and if not the centre of the given company, she should be at least its
adornment. Another important distinction between prostitution and escort
service is that while a traditional prostitute sells her body to carry out sex
act on, an escort sells escort time with a list of favourite sexual services that
are available during the purchased escort time if she agrees to carry out the sex
services chosen by the client.
However, the escort service that is restricted
to giving only an escort company does not involve sexual activity, so from this
point of view these workers cannot be called prostitutes at all, though if
there is mutual sympathy between the escort and the client, the requested sexual
service can also be implemented with the escort’s consent. Whether this can be
called to be prostitution depends on the fact that sexual services are provided
at a separate tariff, i.e. they are not included in the corporate bill. If mere
sympathy is the main motivation for subsequent sexual activity, then we cannot
talk about prostitution, because the sexual act would take place anyway in
other contexts. If sexual intercourse based on sympathy entails a separate
tariff, then a special case for prostitution is proclaimed, because besides her
company, the provider also puts up her body for sale. It is special because it all
depends only on the escort prostitute, whether she is willing or not to engage
in a sexual act with a guest, which, to be honest, is highly unusual in the
world of prostitution. In traditional prostitution, it does not depend on the sex
worker’s mood whether she is willing or not to carry out sexual acts for a
guest, although in extreme cases the prostitute may refuse it (if the visitor
is obviously ill, drugged, unclean etc.) Therefore the difference between a
prostitute and an escort is enormous, because if an escort happens to offer her
sexual services or only the opportunity of having some private time with the
client based on mutual attraction, it is just as similar to the natural
interpersonal then sexual act of a man and woman that, in this case, we cannot at
all talk about prostitution. Of course, in case of a separate tariff for each
sexual service that the sex-worker has carried out on the client constitutes
the notion of prostitution, but the significant difference that the sex worker
has her/his own will to do or refuse to do the sexual act creates a special
subtype of prostitution in the group of escort services.