phone club
n.— «There exists truly in New York what’s known as a phone club and you simply call up and say, “Are you free tonight?’ The other individual on the other side says “Yes,” and they say, “Fine. Plaza Hotel. 11 o’clock in front of the Blue Boy painting.” It’s about A-type people who also need their pleasure. They want their intimacy but their privacy and they don’t want a relationship. And they don’t want their lives interfered with (by) the complications of love.» —“Hugh Jackman Exclusive” by Stax IGN May 2, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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