Why this word is great
PANDAR — [Noun] A person, especially a man, who procures sexual partners for others or facilitates illicit love affairs. From the Middle English personal name Pandare, used by Chaucer for a character who arranges a liaison in 'Troilus and Criseyde', from Italian Pandaro (Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus, from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros), a mythological figure. Unlike "matchmaker" (which suggests a benign, often sanctioned, arrangement of unions) or "procurer" (a blunt, legalistic term for one who supplies commodities, including people), a pandar is a creature of literary shadows, forever bearing the taint of a specific, compromised intimacy. He is the whisper in the antechamber, the forged letter slipped under a door, the third party who lingers too long in the garden, measuring his own profit in the currency of another's passion—a broker of hearts whose very name confesses the ancient, sordid alliance between commerce and desire.