It's complicated. A lot of virgin guys have pedestalizing attitudes, and it means they are alredy transactional AND think the price to pay for the transaction is enormous, like you must be a world-champion hero and bring her the Moon for birthday to deserve her attraction. This is very visible on how many virgin guys fall over themselves to try to give favors to hot girls in order to try to win their attraction that way: they really think a man must work his butt off to earn the attraction of a woman, and that is a transactional attitude, and with a very high price.
Lowering the transaction price can be a step in the right direction, it can remove the pedestal and put them on more of an equal footing, basically it can replace the imagined goddess to be worshipped that lives in the virgin guys mind with a mere human, and that can make in his mind women more relatable and thus more able to form relationships.
After all the man is used to whoring out everything that is valuable in himself anyway (work, intelligence, creativity, muscles, shoulder to cry on etc.) so prostitution can be how a woman becomes relatable for men, it can create a more equal footing and thus a higher chance to form relationships.
However it is nowhere sure to cause this, it can easily confuse people by getting completely contradictionary signals (s.x with a hot woman not very valuable but her real attraction very valuable as a source of validation).
I want to emphasize that a transactional attitude toward relationships is itself inherently pathological. Someone with this attitude will always either feel resentful that they aren't getting a better "deal" in the relationship or anxiety that the other person feels that way about them.
...It's complicated. A lot of virgin guys have pedestalizing attitudes, and it means they are alredy transactional AND think the price to pay for the transaction is enormous, like you must be a world-champion hero and bring her the Moon for birthday to deserve her
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