Yet somehow towels aren’t personal and it’s okay for a hotel to offer bath towels? Aren’t flannels exactly the same thing, but smaller? Cultural differences strike again. I’d still just prefer if flannels were offered at all hotels worldwide.

I did find flannels in a drugstore and I bought one for me but no way could I buy enough for clients.

XX

I know you’re long-gone from Britain now, but I had to pop up with this. I learned it when I lived in Britain (for 4 years), a while ago.

My local friends explained to me that they regarded their “flannels” as strictly personal items, as personal as a tooth brush they said (or — I’ll add — perhaps as personal as Linus’s security blanket). You don’t share your flannel any more than you would share your tooth brush; and you take your own flannel with you while traveling just as you would take your own tooth brush. Clean person A’s flannel, and then let person B use it? Unthinkable!

Obviously, you no longer need to know where to buy them in Britain (fortunately for me, because I don’t remember buying or replacing my wash cloths — or towels — while I was there!). But I thought you might find this unexpected-by-Americans British viewpoint interesting, even now.

RSRD

Compared to the US, there are still way more professional male escorts (for women) in the UK. And of course those who know how to market themselves are going to get the attention! Naturally! Though the scam sites for newbie male escorts is deplorable. Scam sites for female escorts operate a bit differently.

The US is starting to catch up with a new crop of male escorts — but the lag here is about women, not the men. That lag exists in both cultures. Time and media attention will change that.

XX

The concept of male escort, although not new, it is still in developing stages at least in the UK. The trend in London is growing, but ultimately most of the business goes to just a few male escorts who have the right marketing power.