Are men who pay for prostitutes more likely to be violent towards women ?

Link to the source please.

I guess what it said is more of an opinion then, here is the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution#Violence_against_prostitutes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_prostitutes

I’ve been with a prostitute before and I have no history of real violence towards women or anyone. I was a horny guy that was away from home, that’s it. The claim sounds bogus.

This is only my opinion and not based on any scientific research. I would guess that men who pay for sex (prostitutes), have a tendency to view women as mere products and therefore, as lesser human beings. They don’t view these products/prostitutes in the same light as they view girlfriends, wives, mothers, or sisters (which are real people that they know) That being said, it’s easier for people (men in this case) to be violent toward people who they view as being less than human. I’m not saying that all men who engage prostitutes are violent, but the view of prostitutes as being less than human, just makes it easier to justify violence towards them.

No, I can imagine many of them being shy and even withdrawn. B O G U S

Finally something @Blackberry and I agree on, gadzooks get my defibrillator. I would have to concur; many just find it as an expedient way to score some tail. No movie, playing to be interested, going out for dinner, having drinks, you just bypass all of that. Not because you hate women, have bad breath or is a loser. There is no fall out unless you are cheating on your spouse.

Sounds very strange to me and terribly general and generic. I think a man who has gone to a prostitute could be just about any man. When I broke up with my first husband, (well, he was pretty screwed up in the first place….) but he went to a prostitute shortly after our breakup and basically just cried on her shoulder. I´m just glad she was nice to him and that I knew her.

From what I’ve read, a lot of them are unable to actually get with women who are not sex workers and need intimacy and attention so they’re not more likely to be violent. OTOH, sex workers are at a higher risk for violence.

@Hypocrisy_Central Word :)

I actually felt a little bad, but the job is already there and they are useful. I enjoy the company of women and I like being with them: they smell great, they’re attractive, and we choose them for life partners lol. I actually hugged and kissed my prostitute when we were done, I didn’t just climax and toss some money on her naked body and leave lol.

Oh yeah, let me also say that it wasn’t a street prostitute (sorry, but I find that more dangerous). I was at an actual establishment in a country where it’s legal.

People do understand what statistics are, right? Anecdotes are fairly irrelevant, unless we get enough of them to take a randomized sample.

I’m willing to bet there’s a correlation, basically because of what @Kardamom said. How strong a correlation, I don’t know. Our culture as a whole treats women fairly badly, so maybe not that strong.

Wait, wait…. you guys are talking about a majority of men who visit sex workers, I think it´s a minority of men. Shall we count how many women are beat by boyfriends and husbands and even killed???? Statistics people. Women, regardless, are at risk of violence from men.

@incendiary_dan I agree, there’s a difference between a guy that frequents prostitutes, and a guy that uses the service sparingly because he feels he has to at that moment.

While I wouldn’t doubt its possible, I would need to see some kind of study to back it up.

I think it´s possible that a certain amount of men, who frequent prostitues (and aren´t building a relationship, even a professional one with one or two in particular, because, lets face it, if it´s a habit, some men won´t take potluck and are going to have a regular.) So, a portion of men, who may even be beating their kids and wife at home, go to a prostitute and it makes it easy to dehumanise her and he beats the shit out of her. Yeah… I can see that, but I don´t think it is ´most men´ who frequent prostitues. Some men probably feel there won´t be any recourse because, as a prostitute, they can´t go to the police or are reluctant to do so. It makes them an easier target for the arsehole´s agression.

The entire Wikipedia article was helpful to point out that prostitutes face dangers from serial killers who target them specifically, as well as from their pimps. I’d suggest that between those two parties, “client violence”, while certainly not nil, is much smaller than pimp violence (that, plus whoever kidnaps them into the trade in the first place).

Since one might suppose they suffer from self esteem issues, (ver subjective at that), it might make sense to hypothesize that there might be some causal propulsion to violence in lashing out at times to nullify these feelings. But I would never describe any person who feels the need for a prostitute stereotyped as necessarily a low life. The human mind, giant intellect or simpleton, is greatly affected by their needs. Generalizations, to me, tend to be quite unhelpful and mostly wrong.

Men who are violent will have a proclivity to commit violance towards women, regardless of the fact wether they are their mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives, or ladies of the night!
Those who don’t, will be who they’ve always been.

Men who pay for us to “blank” them are pothetic. They see us as “things”. You should never see a person as an object so yeah they probaly are violent.

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@Blackberry It was great!!! Fun’s over. Just another dull thread now.

I think there are different kinds of guys and they frequent prostitutes for a lot of different reasons, and I don’t believe they are any more likely to be violent than any other men. I don’t think these men see the women as things at any higher rate than men see any other woman as a thing.

I.e., I don’t think guys objectify prostitutes any more than any other woman. If you objectify other women, you’ll objectify a prostitute. If you don’t objectify other women, you aren’t going to change because you pay her.

What most guys want, actually, is human touch. They want someone to be intimate with them so badly that they will pay for the semblance of the thing. It’s easy intimacy and it’s worth the amount of time spent to acquire it, but it is a lot better than nothing, which is what a lot of guys are getting at home.

I think there are women who are pretty bitter about men. I suspect they’ve been hurt pretty badly at one time or another. So they will assume the worst about any man who does something outside the boundaries of their moral purview. I think that some women let their anger at men get in the way of seeing what is really going on in other relationships that they don’t approve of.

Men can be quite empathetic when they feel like they are in control of the intimacy and it won’t be taken away because they look cross-eyed for a second. Women are very problematic and a lot of men just can’t get them, so seeing a prostitute makes it all a hell of a lot easier. Working a relationship may be more rewarding in the end, but buying a little time can make a big difference to a guy who is crazy lonely. Not all lonely guys are psychopaths.

No.

Women who are prostitutes are at risk of encountering violent men at greater rates because prostitutes are the perfect victims as they are often already disenfranchised, work in secret, and don’t report violence for fear of self-incrimination.

However, that doesn’t mean that men who pay for prostitutes are more likely to be violent.

Men who want intimacy but lack the social skills to court a woman may be more inclined to behave inappropriately – including being violent. If there is a higher proportion of these poorly equipped men who use prostitutes, it seems reasonable that more violence would occur. The statistical significance? No idea.

This is a generalisation. Men who visit prostitutes don’t fall into one category. They may be violent. They may not be. They may be professional men, they may be blue collar workers. They may be married (whether we approve or not), they may be single. They may be old, they may be young.

No, I don’t think so. I think you’d find more violent men in professional football and hockey teams who beat their wives. The culture of sports violence often breeds guys who think and act aggressively, and this often translates to the home.

I know this question is old, but found it interesting. Perhaps because men have easier access to a prostitute she is subject to more violence, relatively since another women does not see as many men in a week or day. I don’t think the men that go to prostitutes cannot establish relationship or are necessarily shy. Sure there will be this quota, but loads are married men. It is a lot to do with money and power too.