Because they can

It's not exactly a mystery why more men are turning to prostitution:

Last week, a report revealed that 1 in 10 British men have paid for sex. Find that shocking? Then try this for size: the same report, pulled from a total of over 6,000 men aged 16-74, also found that those most likely to have paid for sex in the last five years are single men aged 25 to 34.

The research – conducted by University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections – led lead researcher Dr Cath Mercer of UCL to conclude: "The picture that emerges does not necessarily fit the stereotype of the lonely older man … men who pay for sex are more likely to be young professionals."

There are a whole combination of factors at work here:

1.  Postchristian society removes any moral sanction on men preferring prostitutes to amateurs.
2. The sexual liberation means more women offering their charms to fewer men.
3. Feminism and obesity making women less attractive to men.
4. Porn causing men to be bored by the appearances and conventional sex practices available from average women.

I was surprised that the number was only one in ten.

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