Inside Baseball
By: William, Dollar Bill
Tags: How To, Escorts, Culture, Education, Sex Work

Inside Baseball

Knowing the other guy’s language or vernacular is paramount

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All occupations have their special lingo. Like with Action Mag, we used to refer to the different ad types (outcall, incall, fetish, she male) as classes of trade.

Or with selling ads for the Village Voice, a “run” was an ad that ran the previous week and would continue the next unchanged. A “pick up” had run previously at some point — but had not run in the last issue. A “twenty-eighth” was a minimum size display ad. For Backpage, a “sponsor ad” was the terminology used for that stupid box on the side that never worked for the advertiser.

Anyway…you get my drift. An old buddy used to refer to all this as “inside baseball” meaning…nobody would know what the hell you were talking about unless they too were part of the clique.

Knowing the lingo of somebody else’s job generally serves to ingratiate you — just as knowing how to speak another language puts you in good standing with people who speak that language primarily.

If you see a Spanish girl and say something in the throes along the lines of “me gusta tu chocha. Es bien suave y apretada,” she’ll be a lot more receptive than if you say the same thing in English. Especially if she doesn’t speak English.

Like one time when I was a cabby, I got stopped by a cop in front of Penn Station who was obviously going to give me a ticket for the crime of being a cab driver. (Cops did that routinely when I drove. There was no place to drop passengers legally and so, it was easy to cite schmucks like me who had no choice).

So when the sergeant came up to me I said “Damn! I knew you were on ‘summons duty’ but what could I do? I can’t drop a passenger with heavy bags a block away!” And guess what! Because I knew the term “summons duty,” which is some inside cop lingo…he let me go!

So anyway…to the point: Escorts — like people in any other occupation — have their own lingo. And it follows that if you know some of it, they’ll feel like you’re one of their own — and treat you accordingly. Want better sessions? Here goes with some of that lingo you can use to accomplish the mission:

1. TO BREAK is a term all escorts use when they see their first customer of the day. So if some girl tells you “I haven’t broken yet”…or “I finally broke 4 hours into my shift,” you now know what she’s talking about. Say you’re a salesman and you’re telling the favorite object of your lust that you were having a bad day. You could say “I couldn’t sell shit yesterday until I finally broke with some old lady who bought the most expensive sofa in the store.” Guaranteed you’ll get a favorable reaction.

2. A BIG WILLY is not a super endowed guy. It’s a guy who has lots of money and spends it on a girl. So when an escort refers to a guy as a “big willy,” she’s talking about his wallet! Let’s say a girl tells you she saw a guy for 3 hours. You could respond “Oooo! A big willy, eh?” She’ll think you’re down — or (excuse me) — she’ll find you informed.

3. RATCHET simply means anything low class and negative. “That chick is ratchet” means she’s a skank! If your girl is ragging on some woman she hates, you simply respond “Word up! That chick is as ratchet as they come.” Points, baby. You’ll be in — all the way in if you get my drift!

4. OFFICIAL (I just learned this one) is a way of saying some girl is very attractive. If a woman is “official,” that means she’s certified hot and worthy.

5. MAD is an adjective that is generally used as a substitute for the word very — or just describes a superlative. Thus, you could say “That chick is mad beautiful”…or “she got mad booty.” Either way, the girl is a mind-boggler!

6. A DOUBLE occurs when two girls are booked at the same time by one guy. If Bertha and Maude are doing a double, they’re in the room with one guy for the duration.

7. RENEGADE is an adjective describing a situation during which a pimp’s ho sheds her shackles and leaves her slave driver. As in “Where dat bitch Lexus,” asked a plaintive waif from low on G Money’s totem pole of babes. Answer: “She went renegade and now he’s lookin’ to fuck her up,” responded Money’s bottom bitch.

8. Which brings us to BOTTOM BITCH. A pimp’s bottom bitch is his favorite ho in the stable. She gets the preferential treatment. Usually, it’s his biggest money-maker because she’s the best looking of the bunch.

9. FLOOR GIRL — Big places will sometimes have phone girls, managers, maids, or kitchen mommies in residence. The “floor girl” is the girl who actually goes in the room with the customers and provides the vital service. The aforementioned ladies are support staff and thus, not floor girls even if they rarely hover in mid-air while they’re working.

10. The TRACK or STROLL — is the street where girls sell their wares. If a girl queries “where’s Porscha” and somebody else answers “she’s on the track”…or “she’s strollin’”…that means she’s walking the streets in search of customers. Similarly, a known place where women of this career path congregate would be called “THE TRACK” or “THE STROLL.”

11. TURNED or TURNED OUT — This expression has a couple of meanings. “Turning somebody out” means either a) introducing the girl to a life of being an escort or b) satisfying somebody sexually. Examples: “How’d Mercedes get into the business?” Answer: “Her college roommate turned her out when they both needed money for the rent.” Example 2: Frat Boy Frank tells one of his brothers “I fucked that girl’s brains out at our house party last weekend.” If Frat Boy Frank knew the lingo of the subculture, he would say “I turned that b…. out at our house party last weekend.”

Obviously, I don’t know a lot of the jargon — or I’m forgetting what I know right now since I can only come up with 11 expressions. Still, you get the idea. The more inside baseball you know…the better.