Very very interesting Australian study on the life of prostitutes and the psychology of their clients. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/lcj/working/ch4-5.html
Excerpt on the various kinds of clients:
"The Opportunists": treat prostitutes purely as sexual repositories, establish no relationship with any of the women, and have minimal contact with them.
"The Fraternisers": visit prostitutes in pairs or groups. Their visits are mainly male social affairs involving women only as peripheral companions.
"The Promoters": seek personal satisfaction and peer prestige by encouraging other men to visit prostitutes they know. In return they expect emotional support from the women and a kind of non-sexual relationship with them.
"The Adventurers": are mostly young men seeking sexual experimentation. They require a kind of therapeutic relationship with the women during their sexual explorations.
"The Lovers": seek romantic attachments with prostitutes. They are usually older men who wish to rescue the women from a life of crime and corruption.
"The Friends": are usually married, middle-aged and seek to have prostitutes as companions or second wives supplying sex on demand.
"The Guardians": are usually the oldest "type". They see themselves as protectors of young prostitutes, perceived as "child-women".
"The Juveniles": can be of any age but usually single. They prefer older prostitutes for the opposite reason to the "Guardians" seeking the younger ones. They want mother-figures.
"The Slaves": wish to be dominated by prostitutes and seek humiliation in order to express homosexual, infantile, transvestite or exhibitionist fantasies.
Excerpt on the various kinds of clients:
"The Opportunists": treat prostitutes purely as sexual repositories, establish no relationship with any of the women, and have minimal contact with them.
"The Fraternisers": visit prostitutes in pairs or groups. Their visits are mainly male social affairs involving women only as peripheral companions.
"The Promoters": seek personal satisfaction and peer prestige by encouraging other men to visit prostitutes they know. In return they expect emotional support from the women and a kind of non-sexual relationship with them.
"The Adventurers": are mostly young men seeking sexual experimentation. They require a kind of therapeutic relationship with the women during their sexual explorations.
"The Lovers": seek romantic attachments with prostitutes. They are usually older men who wish to rescue the women from a life of crime and corruption.
"The Friends": are usually married, middle-aged and seek to have prostitutes as companions or second wives supplying sex on demand.
"The Guardians": are usually the oldest "type". They see themselves as protectors of young prostitutes, perceived as "child-women".
"The Juveniles": can be of any age but usually single. They prefer older prostitutes for the opposite reason to the "Guardians" seeking the younger ones. They want mother-figures.
"The Slaves": wish to be dominated by prostitutes and seek humiliation in order to express homosexual, infantile, transvestite or exhibitionist fantasies.
