It can be, but I don’t think it has to be. People do all sorts of things for all sorts of reasons, and sexuality is a tapestry. I also don’t think it necessarily has to do with whether or not somebody can get a date.
The culture of shaming doesn’t do any good and makes it harder to go after the people who are involved in exploitative stuff, like Gaetz.
Today’s Republican party is all about performatively being an asshole. The more visibly one does it, the better. It doesn’t matter how completely stupid it is. Being attacked on Twitter means he was successful (because anyone who even disagrees with him is “on the left”). He’s simultaneously “owning the libs” and being a martyr, persecuted for having “an opinion.”
I like to say that “The most amazing thing about sex is that somebody wants to do it with you. And prostitution allows you to know to the dollar exactly how much somebody doesn’t want to do it with you.”
I have at least three play partners that makes no secret of the fact that they are visiting as much to see my cats as to play with me! I don’t mind at all as I feel the same way. Yay friends! Yay my friends’s cats!)