I was one of those people born without a filter between my brain and mouth, so before I ask people outside my group of friends (likely candidates I'll be describing in a moment) it would be nice to ask somewhere that other people might have information.
I have single friends and attached friends, like most people I'd guess. Being single myself, I usually find myself more often hanging out with my single friends. When we decide not to go out (and being in our mid-20s) we do random things like drink, play poker, watch sports, play video games, build thermonuclear weapons, whatever stupid crap runs through our minds.
One particular night that friend (if he's in your group, you know him) wanted to go to a strip club, but no one else did. It can't be an original idea, but that's when we had the idea of having a hot girl there instead of going to them. Topless, naked, all good.
None of our friends have really hot women we'd like naked around us or that we or they would be comfortable with, so no one we know would be better. We also all love women, but we thought it would be better if we weren't all trying to have sex with her. 1) I think it eliminates illegality, 2) if we split payment for her time, no one feels cheated if "Steve Smith" ends up having sex with her and then we think Steve is a douche (monopolizes time or doesn't pay), and 3) we can try to avoid potentially hundreds of dollars an hour looking within just the escort market.
I'm assuming escorts are going to want a per hour rate, and she could be used for better things. I haven't talked to any strippers. I mentioned we play poker, I've heard references (friend of a friend of a friend kind of stuff) of topless waitresses.
I just have a feeling that since I have 0 connections if I try to go about this myself I'll either asking a lot of the wrong people and waste my time or get ripped off.