Health and Safety Practices in Professional Companionship
Health practice is one of the clearest dividing lines between professional operations and everything else, and it is worth understanding what normal looks like.
Protection is standard
Barrier protection is universal practice among professionals and is not a matter for negotiation. This is not squeamishness — it is the basic condition of doing this work sustainably, and anyone serious about it treats it as non-negotiable.
A listing advertising otherwise is telling you something important. Not primarily about health risk, though that is real, but about how the operation is run generally. An operator cutting that corner is cutting others.
Testing
Regular testing is routine among people who work in this industry professionally, typically at intervals of a few months. Greece has accessible sexual health services, and the licensed framework requires health certification for registered premises.
What not to ask for
Do not ask to see test results. It is intrusive, results are a snapshot rather than a guarantee, and it substitutes documentation for the practice that actually protects both people. Consistent protection is the protection.
Your own responsibility
It runs both ways. Regular testing is sensible for anyone with multiple partners, and disclosing anything relevant is basic decency. Turning up unwell — even with something ordinary — is inconsiderate to someone whose income depends on being able to work.
Personal safety
For companions, safety practice means screening, telling someone where you are, and keeping a check-in arrangement. Working through an established agency provides screening that independent work does not.
For clients, the equivalent is booking through verifiable operations rather than anonymous listings, which removes nearly all of the practical risk.
Alcohol
Moderate drinking is normal; heavy drinking is the single most common cause of bookings going badly. Judgement, communication and consent all degrade, and most companions will end a booking with someone significantly drunk. That is a reasonable boundary.
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