The Language of Luv

Vocabulary lessons from the Eliot Spitzer affair and related peccadilloes, by way of New York magazine (warning: may offend dainty sensibilities):

GFE: Girlfriend Experience. What "#1 escort service" NY Confidential offered clients ("The $2,000-an-Hour Woman," by Mark Jacobsen, July 10, 2005). According to Jason Itzler, NY Confidential founder and self-described "King of All Pimps," "GFE is about true passion, something genuine. A facsimile of love." (Translation: mouth-kissing permitted.) At the time of the interview, Itzler was six months into a two-and-a-half-year sentence on Rikers Island for money laundering and running a house of prostitution. Itzler's current claim to fame is that he put Spitzer's tootsie, "Kristen," into the business.

PSE: Porn-Star Experience. What most escorts have.

DATY: "Dining at the Y," a synonym for cunnilingus. ("Secrets of the Megapimps," also by Mark Jacobsen, in the March 24, 2008, issue, which has a crude but effective cover).

BBBJ: "Bareback Blow Job." Ibid.

The Luv Guv: Nickname for Eliot Spitzer.

Big Spit: Ditto.

More Spitzeriana here.

And just to prove that if you can make it there, you can indeed make it anywhere, here's a quote from Real Life Romance, San Francisco Chronicle gossip columnist Leah Garchik's amusing compilation of overheard-in-the-Bay-Area quotes:

"I can't believe you pay for sex but you think popcorn is too expensive."

-- Movie-lover to movie-lover, at multiplex cinema.

Comments

[Jon Carroll]

You have merely touched the tip, you should pardon the expression, of the available acronyms and euphemisms in the sex trade. Two more I remember are CBJ ("covered blow job") and DFK ("deep French kissing," which is apparently part of the GFE).

There are also vivid expressions, like "pearl necklace," which I leave to your imagination. And others that I do not feel like typing.