Probably just “variety” in the massive menu of choices to fulfill that basic need.
One unexpected beneficial side effect is the elimination of fear of encounters such as approaching a super hot chick that is way out of your league and giving her the “look”, then nailing her. So, at work for example, when there is a super hot chick at the water cooler, you are now in her league and can speak to her with confidence.
Another added added benefit is you can see other guys that are clearly trapped in their routine and are socially prevented from seeing hookers to relieve stress so they can get better sex than that they are getting at home, I don’t have that constraint so people do treat you differently because of the clear absence of this stress.
The poll is missing lots of choices. Plus, the radio buttons should be check boxes. The missing choices include human connection, just quietly hugging, mental stimulation, pain relief (massage), or “because it’s cheaper than marriage”, and therapy.
The TedX talk was a bit of a hoot. Only a woman could make such a talk, because the business and social model for men being sex workers that women would pay for does not exist. Yes, men have such emotional needs that can be met far better by a sex worker / slash / therapist. She’s a hot little number that looks like she would be fun in the sack. She forgot to say her rates.
She didn’t specify the hours and amounts she made off repeat clients and display the empirical data that typically goes along with supporting the theory that a sex worker makes a fabulous therapist (where apparently, no training in the therapy field is needed). This to me is a bit like the fox telling the hens in the house how much better off they will be by continually contracting from said fox, various unspecified much-needed services.
if you go by reading perb, few guys ever find “the” magic provider that provides all their sex AND emotional needs, so that hiring other workers is no longer necessary. That is what being married is like (perhaps cheaper if the cost of a divorce is factored in)
Paying the hoes is more like having choices, like what food to eat, picking a different restaurant to go to, such as fast food at McDonalds, sushi ordered in via skip-the-dishes, Chinese, you name it. Blow job one day, have a girl over for tacos and sex overnight another day, Netflix beer and anal, a slippery 2-hour nuru massage, a 3-way, just visiting and listening to music and hugging. A bad day at work is instantly remedied by a good quick romp in the sack for 30 minutes, not having to worry about the overhead of “conversation”, then off to home to the wife and kids and the three-legged dog.
Each person has a different quality that fulfills a different area of need for a particular day. If you listen to the 400-year old writings of Miyamoto Musashi from Kumamoto, such pursuit of selfish pleasure is not a recipe for happiness. Bandaging actual holes and treating it with sex is probably like going to a quack chiropractor that fixes you just fine for a month, but you have to keep going back for more adjustments.
Back the TedX sex worker talk, and she throws in the bit about the murders and suicides. My bet is those individuals are not the ones that have $200/hr to give to a hooker to relieve their stress. Quite possibly, these sorts of individual that sex workers who do have therapeutic skills plus great sex skills may not want the really messed up people as clients. Plus the messed up guys can‘t afford a decent providers rates.
My experience is it the women that are the ones that ”need” the connection aspect far more than men. Extremely rarely do I encounter someone interesting enough to talk to (that I can afford) that I would devote the remaining 15 minutes of my hour to have deep personal conversations with. The girls that realize they can set their price are the ones who have figured out how precisely how to attract quality individuals who have the financial means. There no school for that as there is for therapy.