I know a bit about this business (from my former life as a NYC journo). You would be surprised how 90% of the high-end girls really aren't that great looking. (You wouldn't pay $2K unless that is what you earned an hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year.) Their main attraction is their availability and the fact that they leave, no tears, no law suits, no demands, no excessive conversation. And you can get two or three at a time without begging. The top 10 percent go for super-rich Arabs or Silicon Valley IPO-rich (even Wall Streeters are pikers in that market) until they get kept F/T by a rich guy. And they often are stunners. I saw a pair a couple of IPO-rich techies pulled about 10 years ago, and man ....