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`Yahoo Entertainment' the ad proclaimed in the classified section of a tabloid. The photograph accompanying the ad was of a white female striking a pose (may be the whites should sue us for racism and our portrayals of all white women as loose). The escort ad assured ``Hi-Fi, elite class, broad minded, educated, English speaking, modernised, smart, young models'' - translation... girls in jeans who would fulfill all you sexual fantasies and more and may be utter sweet nothings in English.

The names of the escort agencies were indicative of the services - Blue Divine, X Dream, Royal, Gold Girls, Mumbai Queen... There was even a very 80ish Sweety Friendship Club - does the fact that it offered ``high society, Gujarati, Marwadi, Punjabi, anywhere good entertainment', have anything to do with the traditional name.

The ads for `hot fun, masti' were all one possibly needed to understand the sexual fantasies of the average heterosexual Indian male. While for a wife, he (more likely his parents), would advertise for a `fair, educated, homely' girl, when it came to escorts it was 'high society' Indian, European, Russian girls. Come to think of it when did you guys last see an ad for a `hi-fi' wife.