Women, as also evidenced in this thread, are generally more opposed to brothels than men. Why? Few things.
Men need sex more than women do. Both genders like it, but more men consider that they need it than women do. Likewise, generally speaking, and evidenced by thousands of surveys, it's easier for women to get casual sex for free than it is for men. Dating sites have a 1000:1 ratio of men to women at worst.
Now, roughly based on that, sex, or the possibility of sex, has always been a form of a currency for women. It is power. They offer compansionship and the chance of sex to a man, and a man is willing to do just about anything for the woman, including providing for her economically even for the rest of the woman's life.
Prostitutes are direct competitors to other women. They offer sex without any hassle and without any confusion on how much it will actually cost. The price will be fixed, and there will be no hooks attached. Prostitutes devaluate the price of sex. If there were no prostitutes, women would have more power over men and could name their price more freely. This is why many women intuitively dislike prostitutes, and like to label men who use them as pathetic. Yet a lot of guys, married or otherwise, will testify that if they had used prostitutes all their life they would've gotten cheaper sex than they got with their actual relationship.
To each their own. Some might have a perfectly happy and financially equal relationship where both partners get as much sex as they want, and all their fantasies are fulfilled. Most people however don't, because people are very different. Judging others based on their relationships, no matter how casual they might be, is the only thing pathetic in this discussion.
Being in a committed relationship, living a life of servitude for wife and kids, being bossed around all day and denied sex unless gifts - manly man
Limiting interactions with females to the bare minimum, pay for sex and go your merry way without any obligation - Pathetic.
Why? Because reasons.
Edit: Could it be that females are so opposed to Brothels because they know they are a cheap alternative to THE ONLY BENEFIT a male gets from a relationship, and that most women can't function without a man to take care of them?
I tend to think less of those who utilize brothels and think it's pretty gross.
for a small price you get all the good out of dating. and none of the ''spending time'' shit. Bitch let me raid!
Reasons being (partly) that we tend to think being in a loving relationship and having intimacy with someone who wants you is something people want - and so we think higher of those who are able to make that happen. There's also the effect of "this man is loved and wanted, thus must have some good qualities" vs. "this man is unloved and unwanted, thus must be undesirable"
If someone genuinely wants to be alone and genuinely prefers paying for sex rather than having sex with a someone who wants them back, fair dues, but that's not the norm.
And yet you don't deny the existence of such outliers (understandable outliers even). She still extends the "sex is easy to find" (and the pathetic part) to those outliers anyway. Do you think they would visit brothels if that was the case? Do guys in wheelchairs have some thing for being in "lovely" neighborhoods full of drunks and junkies that I'm not aware of?
Exactly.
Typically if a woman is mad at you, she wouldn't have sex with you.
Why, what's the problem ? There shouldn't be any connection between the two.
Except that there is, the woman is using the sex to punish you and to prevent you from doing the same thing in the future. If you could go to a prostitute, this power is lost.
Back in the 1890s child labor was a big problem in the US and there was much abuse. Women organized, even though they couldn't vote at the time and got child labor outlawed. After that women went after prostitution and got that made illegal, then they went after alcohol and got that made illegal, drugs too. Basically anything that was fun women organized and made it illegal.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
I think it makes total sense for some people and it's up to them.