Who Pays for Sex?
• Sex Workers
If you can't be creative there's always paying.
If you let your subscription to that lively journal, Sexually Transmitted Infections, then you've missed their new report Who Pays For Sex.
When I was a young man I always meant to hire a sex worker but never got around to it. Thought it would be interesting.
In 1990, 5.6 percent of men said they had paid for sex at some stage during their lifetime, with 2 percent saying they had done so in the previous five years and 0.5 percent in the last year.
Ten years later, the figures had doubled with 9 percent of men admitting they had had "commercial sex", with 4.2 percent paying for sex in the last five years and 1.3 percent saying they had done so in the last year.
Twice as many British men paying for sex - report
The authors of the report, Who Pays For Sex, suggest that the rise in the use of prostitutes is due to the increasing use of the internet to advertise sex, higher divorce rates and more sex tourism. ...
According to the research paying for sex was most frequent among men aged between 25 and 35 who were unmarried or divorced and who lived in London.