

The history of male escorts is really a history of how society feels about women’s desire. Paid female companionship has been documented for centuries, yet men offering the same to women has often been hidden, mocked, or written out of the record. This is a researched look at how male companionship evolved, from early paid […]

Last updated: July 2026 TL;DR Selling sexual services is not a crime anywhere in Australia, and most Australians now live in a state that has gone further and decriminalised it. The shift happened state by state because law reform bodies concluded that criminal law was making people less safe, not more. Queensland’s reforms commenced on […]

Ask most people what a gigolo is, and you will get a picture stitched together from old films: a smooth, well-dressed man living off a wealthy older woman. The real meaning is more interesting than the stereotype, and the distance between the old gigolo and a modern male companion says a lot about how much […]
