Call girl
A call girl is a prostitute who is not visible to the general public, like a street walker, who does not usually belong to an institution like a brothel. One must summon her, usually by calling a telephone number -- hence the name call girl. Often, call girls advertise their services in small ads in magazines, although an intermediary such as an escort agency, pimp or a pander may be involved.
Call girls are commonly perceived to an elite amongst prostitutes, far more skilled, able to pick and choose amongst their potential clients and therefore demand higher prices for their favors. In practice, a call girl may be the same woman whom the customer or john saw soliciting on a street corner only moments before.
Call girls can work either "incall", where the client comes to them, or "outcall", where they come to the client.
Sometimes the police carry out a sting operation: a police officer, posing as a client, summons a call girl to a hired hotel room.
In the Netherlands this has been done since 2004; although acting as a call girl or pimp / escort agency in the Netherlands, like being a client, is not illegal per se, until now in half of the cases the prostitute was a foreigner illegally staying or working in the country. The operation also serves to check the age of the prostitute: if he or she is below 18, the escort agency violates the law. To avoid entrapment the police do not specially ask for a foreign or very young call girl.
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