22 October 2010

One in Three Men

Scanning through the escort website today, thinking, I wonder how many men visit all these escorts.

Selecting, London, female, escorts, recent joiners first. Skipping straight to page seventy, the most out-of-date, picking out one or two at random, looking when they last logged in, hmmm, surprising, they’re still active. What’s that mean, there’re fifty per page, that means, what, three thousand five hundred escorts. Take some off that to allow for slack, make it three thousand.

I wonder how many men they see. Could be seven, eight a day. Fifty a week? Sounds exhausting. Make it thirty, no, say twenty. So what’s that mean, these escorts serve, what, just over a sixty thousand men a week. Some will leave, others will join, probably cancels out, that means, what, about three million escort visits in a year.

That’s just this website, what about others? Say the site has a twenty five percent market share. That means a total of what, twelve million escort visits a year, serviced by, what, twelve thousand escorts.

So what’s their client base? London’s population, about eight million. Say four million men. Some will be too young, too old, or not interested in women. Say that leaves two million. There’ll be visitors, but that’ll be balanced by men going abroad. So about two million client base.

I wonder, how many times does one man visit an escort, assuming he has the habit? Probably varies a lot. I’d have guessed, crude average, ten, maybe fifteen, call it fifteen. So if every man used escorts, the total market would be what, thirty million escort visits.

Okay, of course every man doesn’t. So how many do. Must be, what, over one-third.

Can this be right? Think again. Twelve thousand escorts in a place like London, sounds about right, there're probably more. Three visits a day, sounds about right, could be more. So, check, yes, twelve million escort visits a year, at least. Spread amongst two million eligible men. Numbers don’t work unless at least a third use escorts.

Makes me smile. Never seen this sort of finding before. But then, you stop men on the street for a survey, ask them, do you use escorts, not many will say, yes, sure. But one in three will.