There are so many great words to describe the female form that we thought we’d share a few of our favourites, who knows if this will become a regular feature but today’s word is just too good to not share. Without further ado, the escort word of December 16th, 2011 is Callipygian.

Not something you hear everyday, but totally relevant to elite escort agency Girls From Paradise. The term comes from an epitet inscribed on a Hellenistic era statue of the goddess Aphrodite and combines the Greek words kallos “beauty” + pyge “rump”. Taken together it means… you guessed it: having beautiful shapely buttocks.

The original bronze statue is thought to have been created in 300BC. You gotta hand it to the ancient Greeks, they were so dedicated to their sensual pleasures that this statue was only a small feature of a much larger temple dedicated entirely to “Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks” which was founded by a pair of peasant girls who had married into enormous wealth purely by virtue of their irresistibly beautiful buttocks.

While we’re not likely to see a monument dedicated to “J-Lo of the Bubbalicious Booty” erected anytime soon, callipygian goodness abounds in London, and Girls From Paradise has an abundance of escorts whose backsides exemplify the ideals of Aphrodite’s callipyguos posterior. Plus, complimenting a woman on her callipygian prowess is so much classier than “Damn, you’ve got a fine bum” or “that’s some serious badonkadonk you got going on” and you’ll get to show off your knowledge of classical Greece.