Do you think men seeing escorts is common?

I'd guess so. Hard to know since most wouldn't admit to it, and most wives would be ashamed to tell anyone too.

then again why would they even agree to even take part in the original survey to begin with, especially if they are already being busy with x,y,z etc ?

@Trilateralcommission2 if anything people are more likely to be honest during confidential surveys than when asked normally.

Facts are it’s rare. 1/4 using paid sex workers at all means the vast majority of men have never used one, even less will use one regularly

but then the research could be flawed to begin with especially if people dont admit to using the services to begin with,

@Underworld2 a variety of people using escorts isn’t the same as it being common though

factually it’s rare for men to see escorts, even rarer for it to be a regular occurrence

To my knowledge, I don’t know anyone who has ever used a prostitute, although it wouldn’t surprise me about a couple of men I know.

A friend of mine, years ago, worked supporting street prostitutes in Manchester. Their ‘rush hour’ was 5-7pm, when on their way home from the office, popping in before getting back to the wife.

what would you say the common reasons people use the services are ?

I actually know two escorts/sex workers. One is an attractive late 20s female who has a mixture of clients with some admitting to being married but most being high earning single men. The other is a M2F trans sex worker who is preop. The majority of the clients are men who claim to be straight. Of those ‘straight’ men, my friend says about 90% of them are married to women. And a surprising amount of the clients of the trans friend claim they follow a particular religion which is known for being somewhat anti LGBTQIA+

@Annacondas yeah I get your point...I suppose for me it's just the amount of people I see from all different walks of life as in old, young, rich , poor, single, married....whatever. I guess there are some people out there who wouldn't consider it though...

yeah I get your point...I suppose for me it's just the amount of people I see from all different walks of life as in old, young, rich , poor, single, married....whatever. I guess there are some people out there who wouldn't consider it though...

@Underworld2 and by what measure do you consider it common?

You must realise being one yourself your view will be heavily influenced by your experiences. Just like Dentists believing people with bad teeth are more common than they are in reality

Factually it’s rare

so no, I don’t think it’s common because I bother to research instead of taking anecdotal evidence

I'm an escort and I can assure you it's very very common. They don't all come across as letchy or seedy either...most of them very normal....

Yep. I’ve always worked in male dominated industries, and I can tell you ‘nice’ men most certainly do use prostitutes. I’ve seen it all and it ain’t nice. Married, every one of them.

No, I think it is very uncommon

How would we possibly know? It's not like people would talk about it openly. Although men possibly might to each other

I’m saying the percentage of men who use/have used prostitutes is low - numbers from 1% to 12% have been quoted in this thread - and of those, the most common reason (in my opinion) will be virgins who are keen to lose it. Most of the sex workers will be kept in business by a tiny overall proportion of men because even if it’s 12% then that means that more than 7 out of 8 men don’t use them. And of the 1 out of 8 who do, not all will be married - I guess most wouldn’t be. So to answer the OP’s concerns - no, most married men don’t use escorts, and most men of any type don’t either.

Id say its more common for men with zero game and ability to pull a woman - not including the 'lads banter' in amsterdam that teenagers do etc. I know some very highly sexed males who have never ever paid for anything sexual because they simply dont need to. A number of the men im thinking of would be able to scroll their phonebooks to get an easy shag, go to a bar and definitely pull a woman, jeez i know one who can go to a house on a call out job, take the womans number and secure sex with her pretty soon after. I have many male cousins and friends and also had a bar as a business, ive heard many a conversation over this subject and its never the handsome guys with good game, its the opposite. Maybe with the exception of a guy who wants to cheat but hasnt got time outside his relationship to faciliate it / too scared to have a woman who will want to text etc because his partner will find out.

You think the majority of men who visit prostitutes do it to lose their virginity?

That's a particularly implausible thing to believe. Where on earth did you get that idea from?

There are sex workers all over the world, and thousands across the UK. There's an entire industry that wouldn't be sustained without significant numbers of customers (and certainly wouldn't survive as a one-off virginity taking service).

As others have commented, naivety and ignorance abounds regarding these issues. It's estimated that 12% of UK males have visited a sex worker. If you think that those 12% are concentrated in a demographic category of men that you're sheltered from by your social status, you are mistaken.

I have some knowledge of this area, cutting to the chase there are a lot of middle class men who do this on business trips etc, but I’d be surprised if it was more than one in ten or even as much as that.

exactly, they are hardly going to brag,

THIS! honestly, the naivety is unreal.

@wellhello24 would most men admit to it? 1% is bullshit!

It's very common.

Most men on Tinder can barely get a date though, they'll find it easier to just use escorts. It's whether they have the moral fortitude not to.

It's 1000x easier for women to get sex than it is for most men, which creates the demand.

chances are majority would usually keep such activities secret or only a select few