Whisky6 Tue 26-Dec-17 20:22:11

@equitation I'm a bald middle 50 year old man, and I used to punt, and I used to post on UK Punting as well. I understand that you might consider me a vile human being, but I would like to add my £0.02 worth to the discussion.

It can be allowed to go on because "grossness" at work isn't subject to criminal sanction, in itself. Various trades might be considered gross.Risking getting killing or mutilated in warfare might be. Nursing the sick and dealing with disease and bodily fluids all day might be. Or, having sex with old men when you're a young woman might be as well. All might be considered gross in their way. But that's why these jobs pay well (or prostitution does anyway.) And there's always an alternative, even that alternative is a minimum wage job. I know someone's going to be saying "capitalist patriarchy" at this point, but punters didn't invent capitalism. I got the impression that most UKPunting members are either burning though pension money, accumulated during a lifetime spent in the rat race, or burning through money they should be paying into a pension. @WhatALoadOfOldBolloc ks makes this point by accident- most punters earn a fraction of prostitutes' hourly rates. As someone posted on UKP once, buying a newspaper in the morning doesn't make you Rupert Murdoch.

There are the main reasons why I punted:

1) The physical attractiveness of particular women. The reminded me of girls I fell in love with when I was young in a heightened state of hormone delirium but never dated.

2) It seemed to short circuit the whole dating game.

3) Wanting to put two fingers up to the marriage -mortgage- human progeny trap.

@papayasareyum it does happen. Sometimes a women's nipples went erect during a meeting. Once (only once) a woman blushed red across her chest, which I * believe* is a sign of orgasm. It might not have been personal (due to me). She might have been thinking about Jason Statham during sex- if so, great. Whatever works, works.

@BlueAndSad "Misogynistic and geekish"

@Indigo911 "pathetic creeps"

@LastGirlOnTheLeft "worthless"

With all due respect, you all seem to be pushing a "pathetic loser "narrative. If punters in general, and the sub species of UK Punting members in particular, really are pathetic losers , what is the consequence of this? The consequence is they can't really be criticised for seeing prostitutes, because they don't have any alternative. If they're such losers they're inevitably going to fail at relationships, why would they (we) bother trying?

Surely a better argument would be even if you can't get laid, sex and sexual relationships aren't the only things in life, you can go your own (geekish) way and still have a fulfilled life.