Because they're horny?! Men do it all the time!! Ever heard of prostitution?[/QUOTE] Sleeping with an ugly prostitute is one thing, getting a happy ending from a supposed massage parlour/brothel is another and i cant fathom any man letting an unattractive woman tug his pipe
Then what's with all the stings we see on cop shows? Many (not all) escort services are little more than so-called high class brothels. I'm not so sure I buy into those stats. How do you get accurate stats - most men, particularly married ones, aren't going to admit picking up a hooker. (Unfortunately, I do know someone who picked up one.) But these days, apparently all you have to do is buy a woman dinner and she'll give you sex, so maybe TDK had a point. Except with prostitution, the goal for the woman is money.
Apparently it doesn't happen here in Canada, which makes it easy for me to agree with *laughs* That's an interesting chart though, whoa! I would imagine the others are higher for sex tourism, maybe?
As far as the validity of the stats, I believe most credible studies keep their subjects I.D. anonymous which greatly increases accuracy. As far as the media and the cop shows, well sex always sells so highlighting or even exaggerating such stories is to be expected.
We used to have some Toms hanging round where I used to work (which was near a station) and I used to be surprised at the amount of clients they could pick up off the street. None of the leery old men you'd expect either, some looked like young professionals on there way to the station. Me and my co-worker would have a laugh about whether her touting would work at 7:30 in the morning, but quite often it did. There were 2 women who were out pretty much all day, but the better looking one was out without fail, up and down the road. I was behind her in the newsagents once and she had an Aussie accent, so maybe that was part of her success with the gentleman.
OK, have to ask the origin of that slang, on the surface it does not make sense. Over here we call the men who go to prostitutes "Johns", so it seems counter-intuitive that you call your prostitutes "Toms". Is it from some rhyming cockney or something?
Probably a cockney word, I just know that's what my family called them when I was growing up. "Look at that bunch of old Toms" one of my Mums favourites. And my Grandad saying to my sister when she had makeup thickly plastered on, "good lord scrape that bugs blood off your face, it makes you look like an old Tom"
Ok, a little net research turned up the following, its either from Cockney rhyming slang below or we can blame the Aussies per below... Cockney Rhyming Slang, 'Thomas More' = 'whore' tom, n.9 (1930s+) a prostitute , especially one working in Mayfair (cf. EDIE). (abbr. US Underworld tommy, a girl / TOM n.6 / TOM-TART) The last part in brackets is the etymology, but the slashes denote "alternates" so I can only take it that Cassell's is offering three possible theories. As usual, slang etymology is extremely difficult to trace. The "Tom n.6" refered to is a 20th-c. Australian term for a woman, from: "Tom-tart" late 19th-c. Australian term for a woman. Possibly rhyming to "sweetheart." I don't know if it had a more literal meaning.
My Grandparents moved out of Bromley in the 50s still technically Kent but as close to London as you can get while still being in Kent, we all have a certain way of talking in our family. Nan always sounded very London but not uncouth slack jaw London, like you Americans are fond of putting in movies. We say Mate, Nah for no, leave me be instead of leave me alone and my Bro often says Geezer. When we are bored or confused we respond with "oh right, yeahhhh, yeahhh" on a loop.
How do you say trousers over there? I've had the piss taken out of me before, because I apparently say trouseez
