OK, so why DO men frequent prostitutes?

[YoungDemCA]

219. Gender roles and social expectations

In our culture, there is a general encouragement of male sexual behavior and aggression towards women (and other men, too). There is less investment in our culture toward developing the more compassionate and empathetic qualities that men are capable of. Indeed, compassion and empathy are not uncommonly perceived as being "weak" and/or "feminine"-which leads me to another point-women are assumed to be the weaker, more docile sex in our society, which is an assumption that is related to the subordinate role that women have played in our society for a long time.

Any social scientist can tell you-societies can and do change, and social norms are not innate; they are learned. The phenomenon of prostitution is an effect of the harmful gender roles and social expectations that both men and women experience (but differently and not equally).