A couple guys have said they would not pay for sex even thought they don't morally oppose it, just because they do not think sex is as important as the other aspects of a romantic relationship or because they do not want to cheapen their perception of sex.
Okay, to these guys: You've masturbated to porn, right? Yanking your dick while watching some other guy have sex with a woman and fantasizing that you are having sex with her? If so, your positions seem inconsistent.
Sex with a prostitute, to me, is basically masturbation for the guy. I mean, people keep looking for ways to make masturbation seem more like sex. From XXX porn, to fake vaginas to blow up dolls, to going to a peepshow where you jack off while watching a girl strip, to essentially doing it over an internet peep show. It would see that, to these guys, if you designed a robot that exactly felt and acted like an attractive, lusty woman (an automated sex doll), they would have no problem "masturbating" with it. But if you make the imperceptible change of making the girl real instead of fake, now it becomes something that cheapens sex?
Anyway, if you masturbate, that shows you are desiring pure physical, sexual satisfaction. And it feels better if it is some one else's hand, not your own. Or better, their mouth or vagina.
So, anyway, to me prostitution fills the exact same need in guys as masturbation. It is like "Masturbation Plus." Again, my only problem with it (when I'm single) is the cost / hassle / risk factor compared to masturbation.
And for girls, have you ever bought a dildoe? Have you ever used it and wished you had the rest of the male body there to better fulfill the illusion? But of course male sex dolls are not at all real... Yet, theoretically, if there was a Ken Doll 3000 that was a robot in the form of a life size, very attractive man, operated by batteries, that could get hard and thrust and gyrate and basically have sex just like a real guy...well, wouldn't that be a "super vibrator" that lots of women would want? And would pay for? So in what sense are they not paying for sex if they pay for this robot sex doll? It seems to me it is because they don't have to deal with a real man (germs, disease, dirty, possibly smelly, unpredictable, risky, of uncertain physical attractiveness since pictures can be doctored and don't always show the "whole" package, and uncertainty of climax since who knows what the guy will do, for how long, etc, and women are harder to make cum than guys). Anyway, I can see where women would have much more deterring factors than a guy on finding a "live" version of the perfect sex doll robot. But I don't think it is as much a moral high ground as either (1) not feeling the desire for purely physical sexual satisfaction as often or strongly as men; and (2) bigger deterring factors, including danger and just not enjoying the experience.
~psychoblast~