Honestly, I can’t recall anything in a sexual encounter (also with prostitutes) that I would consider gross. Mishaps and the like can be laughed off just as easily as well.
Also, in most cases you are just having sex with young women. The whole “pro” thing, often doesn’t mean that much.
Perhaps I should clarify about grossness. I don’t mean the act itself. I mean did you find the idea of putting it where dozens, perhaps hundreds have been before off-putting at all? Did possible STD’s cross your mind, perhaps afterwards? Any guilt or regrets?
How is this different from just picking up a woman at a bar?
Heh, back in the day, that could have been said about me.
I’ve never been bothered about the amount of sex partners the girl has had, in the setting where I see the girls (clubs) I typically can even see how many she has had that day. Unless it is someone I know to be affected by how busy she is, I don’t care. It is actually quite common to recommend girls to men you know/talk to. It is also quite common to have a whole group of friends go with the same girl during the day… although some clients can be jealous and some girls might even decline to go with friends of a regular (most probably to be sure there is no jealousy).
STDs… I guess they happen, but the chance of catching something is not really high (especially if you are safe). Definitely not something I think off much at all.
ETA what about the number of women I’ve been with? I don’t consider myself to be physically or sexually defective (or ill, I get tested) after sex with so many women.
Back in my misspent youth when I was living somewhere that it was legal and regulated I partook a few times. I found it to be mechanical and cold. Better than masturbation but much worse than being with someone who wants to be with you. It would never be something I would do in place of real sex or something I would break the law for.
You should have reported her to the Better Business Bureau.
K and L are far too close on the keyboard, Right Gato? Just sayin’ 
Casual sex with a non- prostitute is more likely to result in an STD than sex with a sex worker.
The difference is it is less of a health risk. (streetwalker demographic notwithstanding).
What’s the old joke about you don’t pay for the blowjob, you pay for her to leave after it’s finished?
You don’t know panache45 very well, do you?
Maybe she was a madam?
Try reading Chester Brown’s Paying For It, a graphic novel about paying for it (at age 40, after several romantic relationships).
I love Chester’s earlier stuff, especially Ed the Happy Clown, but this one struck me as dull and depressing, just as I imagine sex with a hooker would be.
I seem to be the only woman responding.
I talked it over briefly with a male friend, one who I’m quite sure had no experience with prostitution himself. One concern he had was my physical safety, which I find amusing compared to going on a date.
It was OK and accomplished the intent. The only thing off-putting was the brevity of oral on his part and the somewhat aggressive move by him for reciprocation. Then again, I didn’t take the buyer’s prerogative of demurring. He brought his own condom and put it on without prompting. He started to chat me up afterward (I assume that most female clients like this) but quickly complied when I said that wasn’t necessary or desired. As aptly stated upthread, the straightforwardness is the advantage, before and after. My immediate previous encounter basically amounted to, “Jeez, just get here and fuck me before I completely lose interest.”
No interest in repeating. My one regret is that that was my last sexual encounter. Then again, better then the previous.
Thanks for the responses. I was looking at it from the perspective that a man in a somehow unsatisfactory relationship would have (like the famous people who have been caught) and not as a substitute for a one-night stand.
Shaking someone’s hand is much more gross from this point of view. Think of all this hand has touched. Presumably it was very recently used to whip the person’s ass. It has been in contact with genitals more often than the inside of a vagina has been. And the next time you kiss a woman romantically, don’t forget that this very same mouth has sucked cocks.
You evidently move in circles different than the ones I do.
Him. Actually, him and him and him.
I’m not sure what you are saying with these two quotes.
My response was to the question of “I mean did you find the idea of putting it where dozens, perhaps hundreds have been before off-putting at all?”
Picking a girl up at a bar has the same idea, really. Who knows how many people she’s slept with?
When I was living in Carson City I came across a guide to Nevada brothels in a bookstore. Curious, I flipped though it to Lyon county which had four right across the border on the east side from CC. One, the sketchiest-looking of the bunch, was described as the McDonald’s of brothels: Fast, cheap, and you know what you’re gonna get.