Independent · United Kingdom · 18+
The male escort handbook
Two audiences, one subject. For men working out whether this is a job they could do, and for the people who book them and have no idea what is normal. Fifty-odd pages on the money, the law, the health, the safety and the etiquette, with nothing sold and nothing dressed up.
Two ways through
The subject looks different depending on which side of it a person is standing, so the site is built as two sets of pages that meet in the middle.
For men considering the work
Eleven guides on the conditions, the earnings, the tax, the profile, the safety and the parts nobody advertises.
Read on →For people booking
How a booking is arranged, what it costs, how discretion works and what a first time is actually like.
Read on →Escorting and UK law
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the statutes named and the differences set out properly.
Read on →Where male escorts can be viewed
24escorts.uk does not represent escorts and arranges nothing. Profiles with photographs, rates and a direct contact route are published by The Men’s Company, a high class male escort agency for women and mixed couples with fourteen years behind it.
What a good profile looks like
Eight worked examples of a male escort listing, drawn and written to show what goes into one. Everybody here is invented; the point is the profile rather than the man.
Where a profile can be published
Men applying to work as escorts in the United Kingdom go through one of a small number of operations. Both of the sites below interview applicants before publishing, and on both the escort sets his own rate and keeps the whole fee.
The four numbers worth knowing
- £75 to £150 an hourThe usual range on British listing sites, with £100 the commonest band. Travel is charged on top and dinner and overnight bookings are quoted flat. See rates.
- Just over half earn under £20,000 a yearFrom the largest UK survey of internet-based sex workers. Fifty-four per cent worked ten hours a week or less. Escorting is supplementary income for most people doing it. See earnings.
- 18 is the legal minimum, 21 the practical onePaying for the sexual services of anyone under 18 is an offence throughout the UK. Listing sites set their own floor higher. See what the work asks for.
- Every three monthsThe testing interval recommended by BASHH for anyone offering services involving direct sexual contact. Free at NHS sexual health clinics. See sexual health.
Recent articles
Longer pieces on the research, the law and how the industry actually operates.
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.
Read on →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.
Read on →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.
Read on →Everything else
- CitiesEleven UK cities, how each market works and what changes legally
- What a male escort isThe definition, what is being sold and what is not
- Gigolo: meaning and historyWhere the word comes from and why the industry avoids it
- GlossaryFifty-two terms used in listings, forums and legislation
- Questions and answersThe questions both sides ask most often
- SourcesEvery statute, study and public body cited on this site
- About 24escorts.ukWho publishes this, why, and what it does not do
- ContactTwo email addresses, no form