‘It’s an equal opportunity profession’

 Men with ‘respectable’  9-to-5 jobs moonlight to ‘satisfy’ lonely women in city

When someone mentions escort services, it is assumed that girls are the service providers and men are the clients. Police officers who have busted escort rackets in the recent past say that assumption is a myth.

“An escort service usually involves a massage for your client. But sometimes the client demands sex,” says Rahul Kapoor, a 25-year-old employee of a prominent multinational corporation, who has been working as an escort for the last one year.

“I have good looks and a sexy physique and by using it if I can earn a huge amount of money then what’s the harm?”

But why do women call him? “They want sexual satisfaction which they are rarely getting these days due to hectic lifestyles, busy husbands and boyfriends,” he says.

“They pay me Rs1,500 to Rs2,000 per hour and I fulfil their demands.” His logic for moonlighting as an escort is quite simple.

“This is a profession where I get everything from money to physical satisfaction. I don’t know why people have a problem with people like us when it’s a mutual understanding between me and my client,” he says.

Talking about the new trends in his ‘business’, Rahul says, “Earlier, only high society women would contact us for one night stands. But now even women from middle-class backgrounds are ready to spend money for a better sex life. Most of my clients are married women who are not happy with their sex life. We always go to her place and not to any hotel because it’s a  little risky.”

Rahul is a ‘lone wolf’ in the profession. He doesn’t have an agent - read pimp - and prefers to work through social networking sites.

Some organised escort services are also operating through these sites. “I work on an individual basis because when you go through agencies you have to give a certain percentage of your income to them,” says Rahul. 

On the possibility of emotional involvement, Rahul is clinical. “I am here to earn money and not to make relationships. I always tell my clients that if they want my services they can call me,” he says. “Many times women do get involved and they want to meet again and again I don’t mind it as far as they are paying me.”