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It's hard to decide what to talk about when your mind is a million different places at once. But I thought I'd talk about a debate I recently listened to. It was about the morality of paying for sex.
The old joke is that you always pay for sex, and I think that's true, however the debate centered on the issue of prostitution. This is a dry post so I'd skip it if I were you.

At one point a speaker asked the question "If prostitution can be a fulfilling role for a person why aren't more men being pimped out? Don't you think they're missing out?"

While I usually don't answer rhetorical questions, especially to people who aren't near, this one provoked some thought in me. There are some areas where a man can be rented but they aren't nearly as prevalent as places to get women.

I think it might just be a problem of supply and demand. Basically there are more men who want sex than there are females to provide it. The world population ratio is evidence for that. http://www.geohive.com/earth/pop_gender.aspx There must then be greater supply of men than women demand.

However even in areas where this isn't as true say in the United States there is a historical case for having multiple females to one male whereas there aren't as many cases of multiple males to a single female with the exception of the sex industry. Men have been seen as providers (this is changing) women haven't historically had as much in liquid assets to afford the services of male sex workers.

There is also the problem of societal roles males have been taught to engage in seeking behavior whilst women aren't pushed to do the same. So we have social stigma against the receiving male and the dominant female.

In any case these factors lead me to believe that the market just can't support male sex workers and that the shear demand for sex keeps the institution alive when it comes to females.

However in the interest of Science I'll say in this post for anybody who wishes to prove me wrong that I know plenty of guys who'll go for this.