Do you think the rise of young men as brothel customers is due to hypergamy?

[MatureDJ]

I was reading this, and it got me interested:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/...pain-for-sex-with-trafficked-prostitutes.html

La Jonquera used to be a quiet border town where truckers rested and the French came looking for a deal on hand-painted pottery and leather goods. But these days, prostitution is big business here, as it is elsewhere in Spain, where it is essentially legal.

In the past, most customers were middle-aged men. But the boom here, experts say, is powered in large part by the desires of young men — many of them traveling in packs for the weekend — taking advantage of Europe’s cheap and nearly seamless travel.

“The young used to go to discos,” said Francina Vila i Valls, Barcelona’s councilor for women and civil rights. “But now they go to brothels. It’s just another form of entertainment to them.”

my opinion: Young men used to go to discos because they used to have a decent shot at getting a woman, either as a 1NS or a girlfriend. Since women are hypergamous these days, they don't have a decent shot anymore, so they have decided to spend their time on the "sure thing".

 

[zekko]

my opinion: Young men used to go to discos because they used to have a decent shot at getting a woman, either as a 1NS or a girlfriend. Since women are hypergamous these days, they don't have a decent shot anymore, so they have decided to spend their time on the "sure thing".

Keeping in mind that I know nothing about Spain:
Women have always been hypergamous though. So if men suddenly are not getting a shot, there must be something else at play that is causing it.
Like the death of marriage and the birth of the hookup culture, or like Raiders says, online dating.

 

[Dingo]

Young men have been visiting brothels since time immemorial...

No big mystery why...