What Kind of Men Go to Prostitutes

[pdogg]

About guys who patronize Western hookers:

 

 

What Kind of Men Go to Prostitutes?

 

Megan Gannon, News Editor

 

When the Kinsey report on male sexual behavior was published in 1948, it revealed among its then-scandalous findings that up to 69 percent of American men had paid for sex at some point in their lives.

 

Since then, the notion of the "john next door" has been perpetuated in pop culture, and even in some recent studies. But new research drawing on a large-scale nationally representative sample of men shows that frequenting prostitutes is not actually all that ordinary in the United States.

 

About 14 percent of American men said they paid for sex at some point in their lives, but just 1 percent said they visited a prostitute in the past year (2010), according to the study, which is, in part, based on data collected as part of the General Social Survey by researchers at the National Opinion Research Center.

 

 

"While it is noteworthy to recognize that the 1 percent of adult men who paid for sex in 2010 still result in a large number of customers, there is no credible evidence to support the idea that hiring sex workers is a common or conventional aspect of masculine sexual behavior among men in the United States," study researcher Christine Milrod, of the University of Portland, said in a statement.

 

The researchers also found that the average john doesn't look all that different from the average man who has never paid for sex — clients are more likely to have served in the military, only slightly less likely to be married and white, and only slightly more likely to have a full-time job and be more sexually liberal. [The 10 Most Surprising Sex Statistics]

 

More distinct characteristics, however, emerge among avid customers of prostitutes who self-identify as "hobbyists" and post on message boards that review call girls. A survey of men in this online community revealed that a substantial portion of them are married, white, earn over $120,000 per year, have graduate degrees and think about sex more (and feel less guilty about it), compared with other groups of men, including those who have been arrested for hiring prostitutes on the street.

 

Men of this more privileged class that cruise the Internet instead of the sidewalks for sex also have different views about prostitution. Compared with men who have been arrested for soliciting a prostitute, the "hobbyists" are more likely to say that prostitution should be legal, that they would marry a prostitute and that prostitutes enjoy their work, the researchers found.

 

Whereas the authors of the new study argue that hiring prostitutes is not necessarily an ordinary behavior, they say there's also little evidence to show that it's inherently deviant or linked to psychological deficiencies. That's in contrast to findings by some anti-prostitution groups.

 

A small-scale study presented in 2011 by the nonprofit Prostitution Research & Education, based in San Francisco, compared 101 men who had bought sex with 100 men with similar age, race and education level who had not. The sex-buying men were recruited through ads in newspapers and on Craigslist, and they were more likely than non-sex-buyers to have a prior criminal history, to say they would commit rape if they could get away with it and to have coerced non-prostitute sex partners into sex.

 

There are undoubtedly some johns who act violently toward call girls, but the new study found that most sex-buyers were unlikely to buy into so-called rape myths that have been linked to violence against women (such as the notion that most women report a rape to get back at a man).

 

The results suggest "john schools" that try to educate men who have been arrested for buying sex might be misguided for assuming that these offenders need to be treated for anger management and sexual addiction.

 

"The emphasis on teaching about 'sex addiction' and 'healthy relationships' to arrested men further supports the notion that customers of street prostitutes are endowed with some form of psychopathology that needs reorientation toward more accepted forms of sexual relations," Milrod said. "The focus on treatment fails to separate paying for sex and being psychologically impaired."

 

The research was detailed March 22 in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

 

http://www.livescience.com/28169-men-who-use-prostitutes.html

 

 

[redrock]

Interesting article.  I'm quite in agreement with the profile of a "hobbyist".  It sums up a lot of us I'd imagine.  I certainly don't think I have any underlying psychological motives, other than shagging the ass off some sexy young man in a frock.  Perfectly normal behaviour I'd say.

[azza33]

EVERYONE pays for it in one way or another.  Married guys, engaged, or in long-term relationships - it all costs.  And I don't just mean in cash...  Costs can be emotional, physical, spiritual, costs to your available time, and so on.

 

Personally, I like being single and finding what I want, when I want, and not having to deal with someone else's bullshit

 

We are on the same page - couldn't have written it any better!

 

Whats that old expression.... if it flies, floats or fucks, its cheaper to rent it than own it

[Tomcat]

men are not programmed to be with one woman for life and will always look around and i notice that at trade shows many businessmen leap at the first chance to get in the go go bars.. and most are married and dont care

 

an old friend of mine was a male model in London and a string of girlfriends and ex wives but still could not resist the seedyness of the hooker

[guydesavoy]

strangely enough, tonight reading these topics I've been listening to random songs on http://www.radioparadise.com

 

Now playing Led Zep, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

 

Sign of the times TC

[cobber32]

To route67, may I say what an outstanding comment, or rather set of comments.  The only other thing I can say, in answer to "what kind of men go to prostitutes?", is that all kinds of men do, and I'm not convinced that any of them (me or us) need treatment to be set on the right path; after all, who is to say what is right for any/every individual?

[KenW]

What kind of men go to prostitutes?

 

Aged, lonely, drunken, blotchy skinned, fat bellied, grumpy, with Shane McGowan mouths of gore and venom, jowelly, wild eyed, with big fat rarely utilised things in their trousers called their wallets that open far too readily and too fluidly for bullshit filled darlings of the night, who like a little sumthun that ya caint get at home, who get a chuckle out of the way money talks, rendering all or most of the above attributes irrelevant for that short time period of bliss on Earth when a little joy cums into the world and peace, like Kid Sampson, rains all over.

[Woofer1]

Oldest Trade in the World.

Goes back Thousand years guys.

Why, because Maybe, Just Maybe, our Dearly Beloved Wife, Girlfriend, Associate or whatever you may call him/her doesn't deliver the Goods or are in Sync with our Kinks. Guilty we are for not making them known for sure, however Routine getting boring, there is lack of "Excitement" at home, and we The Dogs need to Breed in different ways.

[KenW]

Dearly Beloved Wife, Girlfriend, Associate or whatever you may call him/her doesn't deliver the Goods ... Routine getting boring, there is lack of "Excitement" at home.

 

The Vietnamese have a saying:

 

"O nha binh tuong anh com, chan, di ngoai duong an my"

 

It translates literally as: at home we normally eat rice, when that's boring, we go outside in the street and eat noodles.

 

The euphemism is of course exactly as Woofer says: you fuck the wife till it's boring, then you go find a girl of the night.

[Stealth007]

The Freedome fighters that dont give a fuck what others think or talk abouth them because it`s there own free choice , and i am proud to be part of this Elite Gentelman Club......

 

 

Greetz , Stealth

[Woofer1]

Right on KenW

[Foggy]

Not everyone wants a wife or regular girlfriend in their live's just so they have the 'free' sex thing covered.

 

Loving my freedom, I personally love the fact that ( especially in Thailand ) hot and different  LB's / GG's are available all through my life even though the price may vary.

 

I dont fancy any of my Mum's friends so I wont be marrying any time soon and if I want company I'll buy a Dog.. woof woof