Really contrary to Amanda Marcotte’s frankly moronic view on prostitution and why men visit sex workers; this is from a woman on Reddit who works as a prostitute:

10-20% of time it’s sex, most of the time, it’s the client venting/crying to me about his life and how hard things are.

Amanda’s idea that it’s “all about power” runs counter to the facts if she’d bother to listen to any sex worker ever.

I’m not an emotional person in general, but a lot of women in relationships claim they want a man to open up to them, and to be vulnerable, but if you actually do that she doesn’t find you desirable anymore. It’s incredibly common. Nearly every man has had that experience before with a woman they are close to disdaining them after they open up a bit.

So that’s exactly why sex workers have less sex than you’d expect, and more of what the woman from Reddit experiences.