A Greencastle, Indiana, caller is bothered when his colleagues talk about servicing a customer–and with good reason. Servicing a client has long been associated with prostitution. Serving a client is a better phrase. This is part of a complete...
Lena, a physician in Oceanside, California, asks about medical pimping: the ritual of a senior doctor quizzing a student, intern, or resident with questions that often get harder until the trainee misses one, sometimes in front of peers. The term...
porn slapper n.— «Porn slappers hand out little booklets offering services for ladies of the “evening.” Or was it the ladies of the afternoon, or morning? Anyways they are promoting prositution.» —“Las Vegas forum: OK-what’s a porn slapper?” by...
Mike from San Diego asks about stingaree, a name once used for part of the city’s red-light district and later revived by a swank downtown nightclub. The word could refer to a stingray, but it also had seedier slang senses: a shortchanging con game...
Net walker n.— «More broadly, the Internet is changing prostitution. In recent years, thousands of prostitutes have posted their own Web sites, including their pictures and contact information. They are called Net walkers. The Internet, they say...
rub and tug n.— «They can be seen walking the streets, are hired at brothels, and there are, of course, those extra treats offered through thinly guised massage parlours, commonly known as “rub and tugs.”» —“Is it OK to play if you have to pay?”...