OK, so why DO men frequent prostitutes?

[nolabear]

98. I have a psychiatrist friend who lived at the Mustang Ranch for several months.

I've posted this before but she wrote a book on the experience. She was there for a different reason than writing a book (a study on condom use and HIV) but eventually was welcomed and got to know some of the women quite well.

According to her, the clients who came to the Mustang Ranch (now gone) were looking for several things. Either/and/or... They just plain liked being able to have sex with a woman without any strings, liked variety, had preferences that they didn't feel okay about bringing into their everyday lives, had reasons for little or no experience (handicaps, virginity, repressed lives, etc.), were lonely, and number of others.

Sometimes people had favorites and caring but strictly professional relationships developed. The women had panic buttons in their rooms and if something got out of control they could get everyone in the building there in a second. They insisted on being in control at all times and were not required to do things they did not want to do. Some had specialties that others wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole (double entendre intended).

Visiting a brothel is different from picking up someone off the street but then it can be for reasons other than sex and can be dangerous for both parties.

There were things about the arrangements that creeped me out but it wasn't what went on between the customers and the prostitutes. I'm of the opinion it should be legal and well regulated.