Charlie Sheen was a man who didn't have problems getting a woman to agree to sleep with him. That doesn't mean he had sex out of a love of exercising power instead of the normal sexual drive; the quote is telling you that he considered a prostitute's monetary cost to be a lower price than paying nothing to a girl who would then brag to all her friends and the National Enquirer that she was Charlie Sheen's girlfriend, flip out when she saw him kissing an actress, show up crying at his house in the middle of the night, etc etc etc.

> "you don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterward"

How is that about power? It plainly reads as "I want sex, but I don't want to maintain a relationship with a woman to get it." If anything that confirms that prostitution is about sex.

>The uncomfortable hypothesis is that prostitution fulfills the same urge to exercise power.

one can also see that for many being a manager (or a state senator, or a police, etc... ) fullfills the same urge to exercise power.

>It's uncomfortable because of what it implies about the nature of prostitution.

and about the nature of any situation where people exercise power. Some people definitely do it for power, some - for other reasons.

> Studies show that rapists are not, in general, men who can't get sex another way, but rather men who want to exert power over women.

No, they don't.

This is not and cannot be the result of any study.

This is just baseless feminist dogma.

You have been lying all over this thread. Stop lying.