mikenostic said:...As far as having a problem with that, not in the least.
Anyone who is paying a hooker or having someone pay a hooker to have sex with them, is probably not the least bit concerned about the hooker pretending she likes them. The sex isn't for her benefit (other than monetarily) anyway.
How do you not understand that?
Yeah, no man is thrilled when a hooker tells him he is the biggest and the best she ever had And I do understand it. I understand there are men out there who like it that way. Charlie Sheen comes to mind.
Its not that he doesn't want a relationship, its the fact that he isn't capable. Its all about him.
Do you think his Dad bought him hookers?
I think that would be a bit off the mark. I think he's clearly capable of relationships; it's just that he doesn't seem to have managed one that lasts more then a few years. It seems he's still trying though. And yes, I know he paid many pricey hookers and was brought to court over it. But I would like to believe that, like mike here, he was trying to make the best of a bad situation; he has trouble with the more meaningful relationships, so he went for second best.
Young adults being raised to be in a meaningful relationship and occasionally wanting some no strings attached sex are two very different things.
Let me clear this up. I would have no problem being in a meaningful, exclusive relationship with a woman if I found a compatible one. But that mentality does not prevent me from exercising my right to go have some meaningless sex* here and there if I wanted to.
She's a lucky girl, lucky lucky her. What do you think she would say about being in this exclusive relationship while you exercised your right to have meaningless sex here and there (that you had to pay for)?
Wait wait wait. I think you may have gotten a bit too caught up in this. It seems clear to me that what mike is saying is what I imagine Charlie wants too. They both -want- to be in meaningful relationships but simply haven't found/can't manage one at certain times. If you find yourself in this type of a situation, you have 2 choices; you can spend the years contemplating how to get it right (my choice in general) or you can pay for sex.
*if the situation permitted. Naturally if I was in a committed relationship, I wouldn't be doing stuff like that.
(uh-huh)
I wouldn't be so dismissive of his claim. Perhaps if he got into a long term relationship he'd get bored and go for something 'on the side', but that is, in my view, speculation. Perhaps some therapist could point out probabilities based on the things he's said, but I'm not a therapist and am not interested in engaging in speculations for which I have nothing more then a hunch one way or the other. In this case, I don't really even have a hunch; I'm just happy that he realizes that meaningless sex is by default a poor second to meaningful sex.