Igor is looking for a few good men, so he can hire them out from the male escort service he advertises in Komsomolskaya Pravda. Igor chooses his men very carefully. The ones who are too young can be immature, while the ones who are too educated are sometimes too dull for Igor`s women. What his men need is charisma, size -- "they need to be of a certain height" -- patience, good clothes and a blue helmet. The latter is a metaphor for the United Nations peacekeeping they are often required to do, he said, hinting at the capriciousness of his female clients. "They`re very difficult to find," he said, speaking of his men. And his clients? "Women are unpredictable," he said. Igor`s men can be hired for one hour or longer from the escort service he advertises in Komsomolskaya Pravda. He insisted time after time that it was bez intima, or without intimacy, and bez okhrany, or without security. So if you`re hoping to find your prince, have your life saved and get lucky in the same evening, then you`ve come to the wrong agency. The women who call are of all ages. But all of them have a certain amount of money. "You know, sometimes women are ashamed to meet their friends without a man," he explained, almost as if he were channeling Bridget Jones. "Especially when all their friends are married." The women -- and there are plenty asking for escorts in Moscow -- pay 700 rubles per hour before 11 p.m. and a higher negotiable price after that. The work is fairly profitable. Igor`s men, many of whom are married, can work one day and then take a few days off, presumably to spend more time with their families. He didn`t know if the wives knew of their hubbies` nighttime work. Weddings are a common occasion for hiring a male escort -- after all, who wants to go alone? -- although there have been no long-distance business trips so far. "The business is mainly Moscow and the Moscow region," he said, as if he were planning to advance on the lonely women of the Tver region next. Other escort agencies that offer intim have received threatening phone calls, but Igor has had none so far. Again, he insisted that his is bez intima. "That`s a dirty, dangerous business," he said. Igor went all coy when asked if he ever went out on the nonintimate and possibly life-threatening escort journeys. "You can call me a manager," he said, gently avoiding the question. And do they ever ask for foreign men? No, he said, although he added that he now had my number just in case. TheMoscowTimes