Alternatives to SkipTheGames

Often, due to the opaque nature of the sex industry, escort services have operated as an open secret. Both the legal and social stigmas surrounding sex work made it a cloaked practice: Escort services could be obtained “just by calling in on one of the telephone numbers advertised almost openly in a daily newspaper.” Yet, as attitudes toward both sexuality and what the individual can do with their own body have shifted, escort services have grown into a legitimate profession, requiring new laws and regulations to protect escorts from not only the scorn but also the desperation of others.

Once sex work began to be regarded as a matter of personal choice and empowerment, the new guardian of society’s morals, the government, sprang into action. Although it hadn’t shown much inclination to protect workers doing more honest labor, it found renewed enthusiasm when it came to protecting sex workers. While federal law disapproved of sex work, it treated the worker involved as just that: a sex worker, not a woman, and issued a slew of laws designed to keep her off the street, (more or less) unharmed by either hard drugs or the taxpayer’s money, and securely locked away, biding her time until she could look forward to the marvels of uterine cancer, along with cops and kidnappers running the full gamut of force against Free Women.

Diverse Escort Categories

Escorting has faced some innovative disruption, too. One of those is the diversity in its categories. There are now male escorts who cater to both female and male clients, both for companionship and other services. There are also transsexual escorts, perfect for people who are intrigued by transgender individuals. More labels have surfaced, but it does show that society is progressing to accept people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

Specialized Services

The file of more-than-traditional escorting we mentioned earlier is also growing as sensual massage and domination/fetish play join the fold. Sensual masseuses provide relaxation and pleasure with the incorporation of intimate touch and other services. Domination/fetish providers help those fetlife-inclined explore power dynamics as well as respectful fetishes in an environment they can define as consensual. These specialties broaden and deepen the up-to-date conquests of the world's oldest profession.

SkipTheGames and other platforms

SkipTheGames is an adult classifieds-style directory used mainly for escort and companion listings, typically browsed by city. It is not the only place people look, but the two names often compared with it — Adult Friend Finder and CityXGuide — are not the same kind of site, and one of them is no longer operating.

1. Adult Friend Finder

Adult Friend Finder (AFF) is an adult hookup and social network, not an escort classifieds board like SkipTheGames.

• What it actually is: A large adult dating/hookup platform (FriendFinder Networks) for casual encounters, swinging, chats, and cams. People search profiles, not city-by-city escort ads in the classifieds sense.
• Overlap with escorts: Some profiles may be providers or may solicit paid meetings, but that is not the product. Treating AFF as an “escort directory alternative” mixes two different models.
• Membership: Browsing is limited; messaging and full use generally require a paid membership.
• Limits: Heavy ads, fake or bot accounts, and scam reports are common. It is a poor substitute if the goal is a local escort listing with contact details.

2. CityXGuide

CityXGuide should not be listed as a current alternative.

• The original CityXGuide.com was seized by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations on June 19, 2020.
• Owner Wilhan Martono registered related domains right after Backpage was taken down in April 2018. In 2021 he pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution and reckless disregard of sex trafficking (FOSTA) and to a racketeering-related conspiracy. In November 2022 he was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit more than $15 million.
• Federal filings described the site as a major marketplace for commercial-sex ads after Backpage, and investigators identified trafficking victims in its listings, including minors.
• Clone or lookalike URLs may still appear. Those are not the original site and are high-risk.

Safer framing for the conclusion

SkipTheGames remains one of the better-known U.S. escort classifieds-style directories, but “top choice” is an opinion, not a fact. Adult Friend Finder is a hookup network, not a like-for-like directory. CityXGuide is a shut-down, prosecuted platform — not a site to recommend. On any adult platform, listings can be fake, illegal activity can be mixed in, and users should verify age, avoid anything involving minors, and treat safety as non-negotiable.