Girlfriend experience

The girlfriend experience (commonly known as GFE) is a type of service a female prostitute offers which includes acting like a girlfriend to the client. [* cite web
url = http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/gfe/
title = Dictionary definition of "GFE"
work = Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary
accessdate = 2006-09-09]

Intimate service

The "girlfriend experience generally involves more intimate relations than a traditional call girl offers, and may include kissingcite news
url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=32103
author=Dan Savage
title=Savage Love
publisher=The Stranger
date=May 4, 2006
accessdate=2007-07-14] and/or french kissing, cuddling and foreplay. By contrast, many prostitutes refrain from kissing for fear of contracting herpes or because they see it as a more emotionally intimate activity than sexual intercourse without kissing. A call girl advertising the provision of a "girlfriend experience" is implying that she kisses, provides a "full service" (intercourse) experience without protection and does not necessarily strictly limit her service by time and/or ejaculation as many prostitutes do.fact|date=September 2008 Advertising a "girlfriend experience" is sometimes used by prostitutes and pimps to promote business.fact|date=September 2008

Something similar to this is shown in the Charles Bronson film, "The Mechanic". A corresponding term (used to describe a client who acts as a lover instead of merely a participant in a commercial transaction) is "BFE" or "boyfriend experience."

In popular culture

*Steven Soderbergh is set to direct the movie, "The Girlfriend Experience", about a $10,000 a night prostitute, for producers Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner and their HDNet outfit. [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992006.html?categoryid=13&cs=1]

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