ABSTRACT
Prostitutes’ clients cannot be dismissed as the perverted few. Secondly, going to prostitutes may reflect men’s dominant social position in various ways. The primacy accorded to men’s sexual urges rules the day, as does the expectation that women will offer sex in return for donations of goods or money. Some clients also seem particularly cut off from sex for one reason or another. Besides enjoying more ready access to the emotional and sexual relief that prostitutes can offer, the evidence from prostitutes and clients suggests that men also tend to be self-centred in terms of the gratification they obtain. One of the main ideas justifying such behaviour is that of the primacy of men’s sexual urges i.e. that they are stronger and require more immediate satisfaction than women’s urges.
