Courtesan Class

[Karl-G]

A Home of Her Own

 

I, too, enjoyed Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman very much; she was an exceptional person. Whenever I go to Washington, I stop in the National Gallery, Post-Impressionism, and sit on the sofa facing Van Gogh's "White Roses." Pam had this painting hanging above the mantle in her bedroom for many years. She donated it to the National Gallery when she died. The whites and creams of the rose petals must reflect the satin and pillow cases of her bed. I imagine all the other gentlemen who have enjoyed the painting and Pam.

 

Courtesans always own their own house or apartment. They entertain regularly and frequently, giving dinners and soirees to which the most powerful politicians and greatest minds of the day are invited. And they all come with delight. Aspasia was hostess to Pericles, Sophocles, Socrates, and the other great luminaries of Athens. Pam was hostess to the great and powerful politicians, writers, musicians, artists, philosophers, and businessmen in her homes in Georgetown, New York, Paris, and Milan. The presidents of France, the U.S., Italy, the prime ministers of England, Spain, Germany etc. were all delighted to attend and participate. The Venetian coutesans of the 17th and 18th centuries, and the Parisian courtesans of the 19th century, did the same.

 

I don't think any of the boys emulate or aspire to any of these activities. Some of them just charge higher prices.

[Guest john1927]

Courtesans indeed.

These girls have come a long via the internet.

I started consuming quality meat at Kelly's Bar in New York City, where the operative euphemism was "hustler". In the fifties Clients were called Johns, but hustlers were never called ####. Even back then we used fantasy names to sweeten our experience and make the price easier to swallow.

In those days I loved muscle meat (before steroids), but was so busy I didn't have time to troll for freebies.

Muscle meat is so common today, that I now a prefer a softer meat product with massive bone.

[Luv2play]

RE: A Home of Her Own

 

The next time I'm in Washington, I'll have to look up that painting in the National Gallery. It symbolizes the style and grace that Pamela Harriman embodied. Amazingly, she was no great beauty;rather a plumpish, blondish lady with good skin, so typically an English girl of good breeding. I suspect her major talent was making her man (of the moment) feel like a lion in the boudoir and a genius in the drawing-room. Male courtesans, if there is such a breed, do not have the same stage on which to perform in our society.

[xanthus69]

RE: A Home of Her Own

 

The cocktail hour on Thursday evenings in the Polo Lounge of the Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida is the contemporary venue of which you speak: the unannounced Gentlemen's Night on The Island affording mature gentlemen of means to bask in the company of beautiful, and, attentive Bugatti Boys. Ask for the table favored by the Duke and Duchess of Windor in the course of their sojourns in the establishment.

[Luv2play]

RE: A Home of Her Own

 

Speaking of whom, who was that rich American playboy that the Duke of Windsor was said to be attracted to, oh I remember, Jimmy Donoghue. I think he was a regular in Palm Beach as well. The Duke seemed to be attracted to strong-willed women and gay boy-toys. Oh and Nazis as well. Fortunately for England he gave up his day job. :+

[AdamSmith]

Searching for something else entirely, just chanced across this thread from Way Back. Were we all on acid?

[Griffin Donavon]

I find some of the post highly interesting and very true.

[Traveler North]

Marco Rochelle now goes by the name StefanoXXX. Saw him when still called Marco and also recently. He is still as hot as ever.

[Traveler North]

The several guys I see regularly I would class as courtesans. They are not only great in bed but they are considerate, intelligent, great companions and able to carry on conversations on a variety of matters. I like to spend several days them when possible because they are great guys tho very different from each other.

[desertguy1954]

I agree with Ron, I want the real guy there fullfilling my fantasy.

[AdamSmith]

Here is an interesting distinction... Renaissance Venetian society recognized two different classes of courtesans: the cortigiana onesta, the intellectual courtesan, and the cortigiana di lume, lower-class prostitutes who tended to live and practise their trade near the Rialto Bridge.[1] Veronica Franco was perhaps the most celebrated member of the former category, although she was hardly the only onesta in 16th-century Venice who could boast of a fine education and considerable literary and artistic accomplishments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Franco

[robberbaron4u]

http:http://www.rentboy.com/Listing.aspx?lu=sigourney

[TruHart1]

Marco Rochelle now goes by the name StefanoXXX. Saw him when still called Marco and also recently. He is still as hot as ever.

 

+1 in agreement about Stefano XXL! A true Italian Renaissance man (cortigiano onesto-thank you Adam Smith) and one who has aged to even more perfection like a fine wine.

 

TruHart1:cool:

 

http://www.stefanoxxl.com/home.html

[+ bigjoey]

Nick Gruber owns this thread!

 

Seriously, Nick may make Calvin a happy man but he is not what I would call a "courtesan" in the sense that socially, he does not fit in and screams "boy toy". A courtesan fits in socially and intellectually with the man of the moment. It takes great skill and intelligence to do so.

[Griffin Donavon]

Did you know, Brad pitt was a house boy for years before he made it big.. To have that man do my chores.... YUMMY

[+ WilliamM]

Leland Hayward's wife, Slim Keith, wrote an autobiograph, which was published after her death from lung cancer in 1990. She was married to director Howard Hawks before Hayward. Leland Hayward produced very successful Broadway musicals starring Mary Martin ("The Sound of Music") and Ethel Merman ("Gypsy").

 

According to Keith, New York society women looked at Pamela Churchill as a joke because she could never get any of her lovers to marry her. Keith even asked Pamela Churchill to look after her husband while she took a lengthy European vacation. When Keith returned, she realized her huge mistake. Pamela Churchill may have moved into the big time with her marriages to Hayward and Harriman, but few women liked her and the children of her powerful husbands usually hated her.

[TruHart1]

Here is an interesting distinction... Renaissance Venetian society recognized two different classes of courtesans: the cortigiana onesta, the intellectual courtesan, and the cortigiana di lume, lower-class prostitutes who tended to live and practise their trade near the Rialto Bridge.[1] Veronica Franco was perhaps the most celebrated member of the former category, although she was hardly the only onesta in 16th-century Venice who could boast of a fine education and considerable literary and artistic accomplishments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Franco

 

Interesting in regard to this old resurrected thread is the fact that Devon Hunter identifies himself as a courtesan in the mold of Veronica Franco, the Venetian Renaissance courtesan AdamSmith references above. I can attest to Devon’s being another excellent cortigiano onesto from my own personal experience with Mr. Hunter!

 

Check out this entry in his blog from 2011: http://www.devonhunter.info/archives/2701

and also, from March of 2013: http://www.devonhunter.info/archives/3464

 

TruHart1:cool:

[AdamSmith]

Interesting in regard to this old resurrected thread is the fact that Devon Hunter identifies himself as a courtesan in the mold of Veronica Franco, the Venetian Renaissance courtesan AdamSmith references above. I can attest to Devon’s being another excellent cortigiano onesto from my own personal experience with Mr. Hunter!

 

Fascinating! I enjoy Devon’s blog but did not remember those entries.

 

A bit off to one side, the marvelous but these days under-appreciated (almost forgotten in fact) humorist Peter de Vries had a novel The Tents of Wickedness wherein a character struggling to become a poet produces all manner of pastiche of existing greats. Another character, an editor reading her stuff, remarks at one point:

 

“And it really took a bit of something or other to produce this homage to Wallace Stevens, which she titled ‘The Courtesan Takes Cortisone’:

 

Perhaps

Her paps

Were not what was expected."