Like all pathology, objectification of women extracts a terrible price in mental health.

If done without coercion, selling sexual favors is a financial transaction. In contrast, purchasing sex replaces and tarnishes one of the social components integral to the achievement of intimacy. Evaluating love relationships in terms of financial expense is symptomatic of frequent patronage of prostitutes.

Observing the clients in a working girl bar in Pattaya or elsewhere, loneliness desperation and compensatory macho adolescence are as much on display as silicon T and oiled A.