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The Skip The Games Glossary

Twenty-six terms you will bump into scrolling ads, plus what they actually mean in practice. Not a dictionary — a working translation from someone who has read a lot of these.

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Every one of these shows up in ads on Skip The Games and on every other post-Backpage classifieds site. If you have never booked before, read the first-time escort guide after this and you will save yourself a rookie mistake or two.

Incall: The provider hosts. She books an apartment or hotel room, tells you the address once the appointment is confirmed, and you go to her. Cleaner logistics for her, cheaper for you (no travel time built into the rate), and it means she is on her own turf.
Outcall: You host. Your place, your hotel, your car if you are unlucky and out of options. Rates are usually $50 to $150 higher than incall for the same time because she is eating travel time and gas. Some providers keep a private hotel blacklist and will not visit certain properties for safety reasons — do not take it personally.
GFE (Girlfriend Experience): Ad shorthand meaning the session is meant to feel like a real date rather than a transaction. Dinner conversation, kissing, physical affection, the kind of pacing you would expect from someone you have actually been seeing. GFE providers usually charge more and screen harder because the format asks for more of her.
PSE (Porn Star Experience): The opposite framing of GFE. Higher energy, less small talk, more explicit. Some providers offer both and let you specify when you book; others only do one. If the ad does not say, ask before assuming.
BFE (Boyfriend Experience): Rarer term. Used almost exclusively by male companions marketing to female clients. Same idea as GFE but with the genders flipped.
DFK (Deep French Kiss): In an ad, this signals whether kissing is on the menu. Not every provider offers DFK — some list it as a hard no because of hygiene, some because of personal preference. It is the kind of thing you never push on if she has said no.
Screening: The vetting process a provider runs on you before she agrees to meet. Ranges from name and phone number, to a work email that matches a LinkedIn, to a reference from another provider she trusts. If she asks for screening info, provide it. If she does not ask, do not assume she is not screening — she might just be doing it silently through P411, Preferred411, or a private list.
Reference: In screening, a provider you have seen before who can vouch for you as a normal, respectful, non-time-waster client. Usually she needs the reference's screen name and contact so she can message her. Not every provider takes references — some only trust their own vetting.
P411 / Preferred411: A membership service that screens clients once so they do not have to hand over ID paperwork to every provider they see. Being P411 approved is a fast-track past most screening. Widely respected in the space.
Donation / Roses: Euphemisms for the rate, used because explicit money-for-acts language is what makes something legally solicitation. The donation is paid for her time and company. Whatever happens between two consenting adults after that is a separate matter. This is why you never negotiate rates in a message and never spell out what a specific dollar amount is buying.
Deposit: A partial payment sent in advance to confirm the appointment. Legitimate providers who require deposits usually ask for 20-40% via CashApp, Zelle, or crypto. Scammers ask for 100% via gift cards and then vanish. If someone you have not spoken to before wants a Steam card deposit, that is not a real provider.
TOFTT (Take One For The Team): Old hobby-board slang. Refers to being the first person to see a new provider and report back with an honest review. Less common now that verification and reference systems replaced the need for pioneering.
No-Show / DNS (Did Not Show): Client cancels last minute, ghosts, or literally does not show up to the appointment. Providers keep shared DNS lists in private group chats. Your phone number ends up on those lists faster than you would think. Two DNS marks and you will find every provider in your market is suddenly unavailable.
Lists (Bad-Date, No-Show, DNS): Private, provider-only Discords and Signal groups where names, numbers, and license plates get shared. Not something you can appeal off of. The way to stay off them is to not do the thing that gets you on them: confirm appointments, show up, do not renegotiate, do not push against a stated no.
LMT (Licensed Massage Therapist): Ad code used in massage-adjacent listings. Sometimes real LMT, sometimes not. If the ad emphasizes LMT credentials, it is usually because the service is genuinely closer to legitimate massage with an optional add-on. Read carefully.
Provider: The current preferred term for the woman offering companionship. Replaced older, cruder labels a decade ago. Using this word signals you have been in the space long enough to know the etiquette.
Hobbyist: A client who books regularly, usually several times a month, and treats it as a discreet hobby the way someone else might treat golf. Hobbyists are the backbone of the marketplace and providers usually give them faster replies because they know the flow.
Companion: The more formal term some providers prefer, especially at the higher end of the market. Emphasizes the time and companionship framing over any physical component.
Duo: Two providers, one client, one appointment. Usually more than the sum of two solo rates because it requires coordinating schedules and hiring a bigger space. Some pairs advertise as regular duo partners; others do it ad hoc.
GFE Dinner Date: Longer-format booking, usually two to four hours, that starts with an actual dinner. She meets you at the restaurant. Rate covers the whole block of time. Dress code applies. Do not book one of these if what you actually want is a 45-minute incall.
Rate Card: The provider's published price list, usually broken out by duration (30 minutes, one hour, 90 minutes, overnight). Some publish it in the ad, some send it after screening. The rate is the rate. Trying to talk her down is a fast way to get blocked.
Screening Reference Codes (BP, TER, Eccie): Historical hobbyist review boards. TER (The Erotic Review), BP (Backpage), and Eccie were the big three. Backpage is gone, TER is legally hobbled after 2018, Eccie has faded. Some providers still recognize old handles from these boards as a form of soft reference.
Sponsor / Sugar Arrangement: A longer-term financial arrangement between an older client and a younger partner. Skip The Games does not run a sugar dating section — that is a separate category with its own dedicated sites. Some providers cross over, but the framing and expectations are different.
Verified (on Skip The Games): Means a live selfie holding a government ID is on file with our moderators, matched against the photos in the ad, and dated within the last 12 months. That is a specific, checkable claim — not a vague trust badge. If a site says verified and cannot describe the process behind it, it is decoration, not verification.
Kraken / OF Model: OnlyFans-adjacent creators who occasionally advertise in-person meets on classifieds boards. Not automatically a red flag, but the rate is usually much higher and the availability much narrower than a full-time provider.
Extras: Anything beyond what the ad explicitly offers. Asking about extras in a message is the fastest way to get blocked. Whatever happens in the room is between two adults; on the intake side, we do not discuss it and neither should you.

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