“Norwegian sex customers are getting organized and are taking dramatic steps to ensure that they get what they pay for. One advanced web site with prostitute ratings and discussion groups for sex clients has 3,300 registered users, newspaper Dagsavisen reports. Norwegian ‘johns’ are tired of paying a lot of money and not feeling fully satisfied and are creating their own consumer guides on the Internet. Dagsavisen studied one of the leading web sites where prostitutes were rated on a scale from 1-6. The ratings were organized geographically and users anonymously discussed their experiences in detail. Other features included a search engine for checking prostitute ratings, illegal ads linked to the purchase and sale of sex and a discussion forum where prostitutes and clients could discuss how business should be conducted. Travel guides for sex buyers and searches for special requests were among other site services.” —Aftenpost (Norway)

(Thanks to alanr for the link.)

Being a prostitute is difficult and often demeaning work, so it’s hard to blame those hookers who get surly attitudes, rush the encounter, or otherwise provide poor customer service. But still, to be a hooker is to be a business, a kind of store where you stock the shelves with your most intimate body parts, and nothing frustrates shoppers more than subpar customer service. That’s why hookers who provide GFE — GirlFriend Experience — are so highly prized by johns, notwithstanding the irony that these same johns are cheating on their girlfriends and wives. (What do they expect from their significant others — HE? Hooker Experience?)

It’s not just Norwegians who have organized web sites for rating prostitutes — they’re out there if you look for them — and a large part of the motivation behind them is simply to assure the johns that they get what they’re paying for. Are the girls attractive? Pleasant? Professional? Do they deliver what they promise? Or are they scam artists who pick your pocket?

While on one hand this may sound like it’s giving a leg up to the johns, at the same time it has to improve prostitution all around. The more the johns trust the ladies, the more pleasant and professional the johns will be too. Norms will evolve — how much to tip, what lingo to use, how to treat a girl in order to get that GFE. And while it should come as no surprise that the nicer you treat a hooker, the nicer she’ll treat you, there is still a benefit in having johns frequently remind each other of this. Some johns even describe how they bring flowers or little presents to the girls they see — and if you’re seeking a girlfriend experience, it probably goes a long way to act like a boyfriend or even a gentleman.

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