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Longer pieces on how the British male escort industry works: what the research shows, what the law does, and what changes underneath both.
18 August 2026
Why more women in Britain are booking male escorts
The demand is not new. What has changed is how easy it has become to arrange, and how much less it now costs a person socially to consider it.
11 August 2026
What the research actually says about British sex work
The largest UK survey of internet-based sex workers found a part-time, independent, and heavily harassed workforce. Very little of it matches the public picture.
4 August 2026
Why two escorts cannot legally share a flat
The safest arrangement available to an independent escort is also the one most likely to meet the legal definition of brothel-keeping. Parliament was told about this ten years ago.
28 July 2026
Northern Ireland: where paying for sex is a crime
Since 2015, buying sexual services has been an offence in Northern Ireland while selling them has not. The detail of how that works is frequently reported wrongly.
21 July 2026
How to spot a fake male escort profile
Stolen photographs, invented reviews and profiles that cannot answer a telephone. The signals are consistent and most of them can be checked in two minutes.
14 July 2026
Subscription or commission: how escort listings are paid for
The two models produce very different incentives, and the difference shows up in who owns the client.
7 July 2026
The tax return nobody mentions
HMRC taxes the profits of a trade regardless of whether the trade is lawful, and says so in print. The consequences for cash income are worth understanding early.
30 June 2026
Why longer bookings work better for everyone
The one-hour booking is the worst-value hour in the industry, and both sides usually know it by the time it ends.
23 June 2026
What clients actually ask for
The requests that come up most often are not the ones the industry advertises, and the gap explains why so many profiles are written badly.
16 June 2026
The trouble with the word gigolo
It arrived from France in the 1920s meaning a paid dancing partner. A century later it is still the word most people reach for, and it still carries the sneer it came with.