Duke It Out: Call Girls vs. Mistresses

By Lauren H

[It's pretty obvious that the average CollegeCandy reader has some very strong opinions. Opinions that she likes to share with everyone on the site. We love a strong woman, so we thought we'd give her a real forum to discuss her thoughts, feelings, and perspectives. Every Friday I'll be featuring a hot topic (like whether we're too celeb obsessed!) and leaving it up to you, the readers, to duke it out. So, read it and get your debate on in the comments section below!]

With Tiger’s ladies coming out of the woodwork (seriously Tiger, where did you find the time?) and Ashley Dupre telling everyone who’ll listen that call girls – *ahem*, escorts – save marriages, it seems like everybody is weighing in on infidelity – and we are not about to be left out!

Now admittedly, I’m a monogamy person, but I do get that some people just don’t want to/can’t cut it that way and I give them a little slack. And I have to say, if I were to find out that my guy was sleeping with someone else, (after I finished grinding his man-parts into the floor with my pointiest shoes) I’d probably feel better about him seeing an escort than just some other woman – at least with a call girl, it’s just sex. And I will also admit that call girls tend to be classier about the whole things than mistresses – you don’t see nearly as many of them trying to cash in on sleeping with a celeb. There’s something to be said for being professional about the whole thing, after all, escorts make their living on being discreet and have a lot more clients to lose if they’re seen as blackmailers.

But that same logic that makes an escort seem like a better option might also make it worse. After all, with a mistress, there’s at least some kind of emotional attachment; there must be some level of caring or interest beyond the purely sexual, or else why not just pay for it? Would it hurt less if your man went crawling to someone else for nothing more than a little bump and grind? And if you were on the other end of it – if you were the other woman? Well, I’d definitely rather be wanted for me than for my body (as cool as The Girlfriend Experience made it look). And while it may seem wrong that all these women would cash in on sleeping with a celeb, at the same time, I can understand why they do it. For some I’m sure it’s the money, the fame; but then most of us have at some point had a break up where we just wanted to see the guy squirm. If you had that kind of ammo, if you could make the whole world see him as a jerk, can you really say you wouldn’t have even thought about it?

As the idea of being a call girl becomes more and more opened up with movies and TV shows about it, is it possible that the taboo is turning? Are mistresses the new prostitutes? Or will sex always be dirtier than relationships? Which position would you rather be in?  And what do you think these ladies should do?

So many questions.
Duke it out girls!