This article was published more than 12 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. Despite the glut of porn, sex and escort services available online, geeks with inadequate social skills have discovered that a void remains: a girlfriend.
Since affection from an actual girl is sometimes out of reach for this cohort, web entrepreneur Cody Krecicki has set up GirlfriendHire. For just five bucks, insecure guys can pay a woman to send a racy text, post something suggestive on Facebook, give fashion advice and perform other "girlfriend services" β even up to doing a guy's homework, Buzzfeed reports.
Modelled after the online marketplace Fiverr , GirlfriendHire promises to help lonely guys PayPal their image problems away. Meanwhile, it empowers women, according to Mr. He describes the website as a way "for girls to be their own bosses and guys to have something fun β a tool to use, if you want to call it that.
Launched last year, Fakegirlfriend. Another site, cloudgirlfriend. Unlike the competition, however, GirlfriendHire presumably involves a lot of interacting with a real woman one who clearly doesn't value her time if she's willing to do someone else's homework for a measly five bucks. On the site, SweetEmma offers to send the purchaser hot photos of herself "so that you can show me off to your friends as your girlfriend.
LilithX, a self-described fetish expert, offers to teach "all of the words and safety techniques needed to have a fun sexy kinky time.
