Gigolo in Charleroi

A city with a bad press and a second life

Charleroi spent years on the kind of lists no city wants to make. Anyone who comes now notices something else: empty buildings that have been repurposed, street art on a large scale, and city walks along the industrial heritage that get real attention.

It is still a city that does not try to be pretty. For some people that is off-putting, for others a relief, because nothing is being faked.

About the language

French is the language here, and I do not speak it, apart from a few pleasantries. Dutch, German and English I do. English gets you through Charleroi fine. If you want an evening in French, I am not the right person, and I would rather say that now than later.

What we can do together

The Bois du Cazier, a former mine and World Heritage site, where the 1956 disaster killed two hundred and sixty-two miners. Powerful and heavy, and not for every mood. The Musée de la Photographie, the largest of its kind in Europe. And the terrils, the slag heaps you can climb for a view over the whole valley.

Quieter: the Sambre, and the woods south of the city toward Chimay.

Who I come here for

For women who are married and have long missed what no longer gets said at home. For women starting over after a divorce with no manual. Widows, who feel guilty for wanting something again, which there is no need for.

And plenty of women from the towns around here, where everyone knows everyone by sight and where this kind of thing does not get discussed. That is exactly where a city of two hundred thousand helps.

Couples can just as easily. What is all possible you can read under my services.

Where we meet

Usually in a hotel. Charleroi has plenty, partly because of the airport, and among the business travelers and vacationers a guest who stays one night stands out to no one.

Your place works too. Then we agree beforehand how I arrive, where I park and what I say if someone asks who I am.

Practical

Three hours from Amsterdam. What those kilometers cost in travel you know before anything is set, and nothing gets added afterwards.

A night costs the same as an afternoon of equal length, weekend or public holiday included. Booking as a couple does not change the price. Plan a week or two ahead.

What it is not

There is no organization behind me. No catalog of men, no middleman relaying your preferences, no file with your name kept in it. The person on the other end of your first message is the same one who rings the bell later.

It is also not a performance where you have to prove something. There is no standard your body or your age has to meet, and what you want you do not have to defend with me.

An evening or a stay

Three hours of driving for a couple of hours together does not sit well for either of us. If the meeting runs on into the morning, or we make two days of it, that travel time disappears completely behind the time that is left.

You notice that difference too. The first hours are an adjustment for almost everyone, and those hours are a good deal more pleasant when there is no return trip behind them that you are quietly counting on.

When in doubt, take the longer option. Stopping earlier is always possible, extending at the moment it is just getting good rarely is.

About money

Before anything is fixed you know what we are doing, how long, and what it comes to all together, the trip here included. Afterwards no item appears that you did not see coming.

Surcharges do not exist with me: not for the evening, not for the night, not for a Sunday. Only for a stay of several days do I ask for a deposit, because by then I have already booked accommodation myself.

What women often say afterwards

It is rarely about sex first. What comes up more often is the calm: that no one was looking at their phone, that nothing was rushed, that a question about how she was really doing was not meant as an opening to something else.

And after that, almost without exception, that it took months before she dared to send that first message.

This is how it starts

Let me know your town, and when it would suit you. In Dutch, English or German.