Cope. Men aren't just looking for sex, they are looking for someone to love. They are looking for the delusion of affection from women.
This is a pretty big problem that men face, which women are increasingly capitalizing on (OnlyFans, etc). I think it'll be easy to get a cheap, quick fix if prostitution is legalized, but it will also mean the complete death of monogamy and love.
When the legalization of prostitution is combined with women's current hyper-capitalistic and predatory nature towards men, relationships between men and literal prostitutes will become more common, normalized and mainstream. I have already seen this beginning to happen - I see escorts all the time with boyfriends and fiances who complain and argue that they're
monogamous - despite being a literal
prostitute! Jfl.
But that doesn't mean that the birth rate is guaranteed to get any lower - it's just that women will get to have even more of their cake and eat it too. They'll get to have a career, be a prostitute, have lots of money and attention from losers, have a partner,
and have children - all at the same time with no stigma. Men, meanwhile, will continue to settle for less and less in pursuit of romance which has long since been dead. The future, to me, appears to be very dark.
Paying a hooker for sex is far less cucked than betabuxxing an ugly whore.
This is true - at least you're guaranteed to have sex with someone who is attractive and actively pretends to like you. That being said, it is still cucked and can become addicting. But it's marginally better and perhaps cheaper in the long run than marrying someone who is below my worth.