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"This guy is so handsome he turns heads and so chivalrous he acts as a human shield between you and life\u2019s harsh realities. He doesn\u2019t mind the silly pet names you call him, and he never complains about anything. The words, \u201CAs you wish,\u201D fall trippingly off his tongue, and he compliments you like clockwork every 15 minutes.\nIs this the world\u2019s most perfect boyfriend?\nOh heavens no, honey. You\u2019ll have to pay for this dude. And, basically, he\u2019s a rental.\nSee also: 8 Hot Startups That Want to Hire You\nA startup in San Francisco called ManServants aims to give every woman exactly what she wants: a man who does exactly what she wants. The company, founded by two advertising copywriters, wants to unleash your inner lady of leisure by providing you with a gentlemanly tailored-to-order mashup of butler, bodyguard and cabana boy.\nBut this is not \u2013- repeat, not -\u2013 an escort service.\n\u201CIt\u2019s completely PG,\u201D said co-founder Dalal Khajah, who works at ad agency AKQA. \u201CWe have a very strict code of conduct and a very rigorous training process.\u201D\n\nImage:  ManServantsAmong the written rules for ManServants: \u201CA ManServant keeps his penis in his pants and out of the lady\u2019s face.\u201D In other words, minds out of the gutter, everyone.\nManServants, which has been in beta test for months, launches in the fall. As an introduction, Khajah and her business partner Josephine Wai Lin called in favors from their advertising friends in the Bay Area to make a commercial that they will readily acknowledge looks like a skit from Saturday Night Live.\n\u201CEveryone who watches it thinks it\u2019s a parody,\u201D Khajah said. \u201CEven the name of the company sounds like a joke. But it\u2019s not.\u201D\nThe idea for ManServants sprung, partly, from a colleague who insisted that her bachelorette party be male stripper-free. Khajah and Wai Lin said they never understood where that modern tradition came from anyway, since so many women think it\u2019s awkward and unsexy.\nInstead, they envisioned a service that would send a pressed and polished man to do a woman\u2019s bidding at such an event, serving drinks, cleaning up, making witty small talk and fawning over the guest of honor. All without a tear-away shirt in sight.\nManServants may also become personal assistants/errand boys, if that\u2019s what the customer wants, because, as Wai Lin points out, \u201Cevery woman\u2019s fantasy is different.\u201D During testing, for instance, one woman asked for a sassy gay best friend who could give her pointers to spice up her marriage. Another wanted a bodyguard at her office to screen all her visitors. \nAnd yet another wanted to be served food while the ManServant sang tunes from The Little Mermaid.\u201D (There\u2019s no judgment, but songs will cost extra, according to the company\u2019s website).\nThe service isn\u2019t intended to compete with existing Rent-a-Hubby and other handyman-for-hire companies, she said, but rather fill a void where no entrepreneurs have yet gone. ManServants is open to men, as well, but the founders think they\u2019ll draw mostly women as clients who want to treat themselves or their friends to some testosterone-fueled pampering.\n\u201CIt\u2019s kind of our dream to annihilate the male stripper industry,\u201D Khajah said, \u201Cbut really we just want to flip the script and provide another option.\u201D"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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