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"  It&amp;#039;s a sad day when our standards have become so low that we expect that more American men pay for sex than they actually do. Back in the days when the Kinsey study was our only touchstone into the sex lives of average Americans, it was noted that the percentage of men who used prostitutes was about two-thirds; ever since, the myth has prevailed. Those of us who came of age around when American Beauty came out internalized the drive to side-eye the seemingly-&amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; adults in our suburban neighborhoods, watching for some hidden perv or creepo behavior. (In their study, SAGE&amp;#039;s International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology refers to this phenomenon as &amp;quot;the john next door.&amp;quot;)  However, SAGE&amp;#039;s study in conjunction with the University of Portland found that only one in ten modern men (that&amp;#039;s 14 percent) has paid for sex in their lifetime, and one in 100 over the last year. Lower than you thought, right? Says the head researcher: &amp;quot;Our findings clearly contradict the &amp;#039;john next door&amp;#039; notion perpetuated by some media. While it is noteworthy to recognize that one percent of adult men who paid for sex in 2010 still result in a large number of customers, there is no credible evidence to support the idea that hiring sex workers is a common or conventional aspect of masculine sexual behavior among men in the United States.&amp;quot; Yes, movies and TV shows do depict a high volume of dudes who use hookers (if I had a dime for every time a dude on an HBO show got a hooker, I would have, ummmm, All The Dimes). However, given that the very definition of &amp;quot;prostitution&amp;quot; has become increasingly grey, I can&amp;#039;t imagine that this low figure is entirely accurate. Let&amp;#039;s look at the facts. Most of these men are wealthy and white, and more likely rely on the Internet than street prostitution, and if they don&amp;#039;t consider a website like, say, Sugar Daddy/Baby hookup site Seeking Arrangements technically prostitution? Well, then they didn&amp;#039;t report it in the study, and the figure isn&amp;#039;t quite accurate. Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslaw Photo via Thinkstockphoto "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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