# Explain the allure of hiring a prostitute?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 5, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-allure-of-hiring-a-prostitute/614795 "2012-03-05T06:26:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-allure-of-hiring-a-prostitute/614795/96 "2012-03-07T22:52:10Z")

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> [@grude](#):
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> It is **difficult to imagine the person so absolutely lacking in any personality or charm or physical attraction** that their only option for sexual relations is to pay for it.

With all the discussion in this thread to date, and despite the tangential side-tracks, I think the OP is answered. OP can’t imagine getting it up for a whore, and his only picture of a prostitute is the sleazy street-walker whore standing on the corner (from the OP). The answers to his question, to summarize, are:  
– No, not all prostitutes are like that.  
– Many males have a really powerful urge to get laid.  
– Yes, Virginia, there really are many males that simply can’t get any, for various reasons.  
– Yes, **Grude** , among such males there really are:  
– – (a) Many who really want and will only accept a relation that has something more than bare naked pussy to it.  
– – (b) Many who really want a relation that has something more than bare naked pussy to it, but failing that, will get that B.N.P. however they can, often by bare naked $$$, and yes they can get it up for that.  
– – (c) Many who really aren’t all that insistent on having a real relation, or who don’t care for that at all (witness **Polar Bear** ) are are quite content to get all their needs bought with bare naked $$$.

At the risk of being redundant (all the above having been thrashed out in this thread already), I wanted to add this, with the following quote:

Yes, there really are plenty of people “so absolutely lacking in any personality or charm”. Here’s one perception of such a person:

> [@Ladies, do you find Rick Santorum sexy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-do-you-find-rick-santorum-sexy/354825/10):
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> Rick Santorum looks like that guy in high school who… well, you couldn’t put your finger on it. He didn’t have some awful skin disease. He wasn’t shunned as a nerd. He didn’t have horrible coke-bottle glasses, his mother didn’t cut his hair with an upturned bowl, you couldn’t smell his breath at twenty paces, he didn’t chew with his mouth open, and he didn’t snort when he laughed. And yet, and yet… _he couldn’t get a date to save his life._
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> Not unattractive, but not even in the same zip code as sexy.

But wait, you say! Even THAT guy somehow got married and had a family. Well… There are plenty others who simply never manage anything like that.

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