Frequency of Sexual Activity Among Men Who Visit Prostitutes (Report‪)‬

Introduction Understandings of commercialized forms of sexual activity are a niche in the social science literature that have shown a tendency to focus on either discussions of the gendered nature of such work, who is involved in providing commercial sexual services, or examinations of the (il)legal aspects of such encounters. What stands as the least developed aspects of such issues is how involvement in commercial sexual activities is experienced as part (or the entirety) of men's sexual experiences. For some observers the idea of paying for sexual services may be seen as a way to be introduced to or learning about sex, an activity that serves as the central component of an individual's sexual repertoire (perhaps due to inabilities to access or lack of interest in other sexual encounters; Edgley, 1989; Reinisch, 1990) or as simply one component of a set of healthy sexual expressions. The present study seeks to add to this discussion through an examination of whether men who patronize prostitutes display especially high levels of sexual activity.