OK. I have gone back to square one and am starting over.
We know the victims were prostitutes.
We know these girls were hired by johns.
Based on those two facts, I became curious about why a man hires a prostitute/escort and also if there are any statistics regarding: socioeconomical group, age, and profession.
MOO, but we must first understand why men have a 'penchant for strippers' before we can begin to understand what causes escalation to a SK.
Anyway, here's a start.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jan/15/why-men-use-prostitutes
http://www.eaves4women.co.uk/Documents/Recent_Reports/Men Who Buy Sex.pdf
MOO, as always.
wm
Nice study, but with 103 members of the base set hardly conclusive. However, lets go back to the basics here:
Men, by evolutionary development differ from women in one very significant way. The male strategy of reproduction is based on spreading semen as much and as far as possible. Basically, evolution rewarded promiscuity for men. It's not new, we can prove that by archaeological material back at least for some 5 million years. Which technically means, all men today are descendants of promiscuitive males.
The moment, social rules enforced to bind sexual activity to one partner only, prostitution blossomed. It's easy to hide, easy to get and so on. It's just, what mother nature taught men: How to spread semen without too much hassle. And since it's built in wiring, men do it without thinking about it, feel later embarrassed because they did, swear never to do it again and will do it anyway next week. Once, man is aware of it, the problem solves on it's own. Of course, having a wife with who sex is fun and not marital duty, helps a lot too.
That answers also the question for age and social standing: Basically, you will find all kinds of males, all races and all ages as Johns. As long as they can afford it and find the time. Of course, some groups are more prone to this business, but not because they are wired differently. The businessman 5 days/week on sales travel has definitively more opportunity than the worker who earns just enough to pay the bills and is basically every night at home.
The thing with "strippers" has an additional aspect. Women are nose-controlled (the sense of smelling is in women average three times as strong as in men). Women, without being aware of it, made their first decision when they meet a new male with their nose. Men on the other hand are visual animals. Men have, interesting fact, nobody really wants to know, double the number of color-blind motion sensors in our eyes than women. Hunters, warriors and sheriffs are kept alive by this extra-equipment to see from the corner of the eye. But it also means, male brains react with a lot higher priority to what we see than to any other sense. Which consequently means, sexual attraction works best with men on the visual way. Or why do you think, Victoria's Secret is such a successful business?
Prostitutes and SKs. Now, that's a never ending story. In the good old times (aka pre-internet ages), sks with a lack of social skills would go to the prostitute on skid row because usually, the hooker starts the first contact, the sk can't start due to real or perceived flaws, he has. A nice example for that kind was Robert Hansen in Alaska. The socially awkward psychopath is probably the most common form of prostitute killer and today, in the internet age, the anonymity of the web allows it even socially awkward persons to make a first contact. So technically, the internet isn't for *advertiser censored* only but for serial killers.
Another kind of sks killing prostitutes is the traveling/no chance type. This group normally includes mostly truckers and traveling salesmen. Those men are often too much time on the road to have normal relationship. Prostitutes are basically their only chance to get some sex. But of course, sex isn't all, those men want and so a growing cleft between wish and reality and the need to push up the kick of the rather technical sex with prostitutes, combined with too much time aloe to dwell in some pretty unhealthy fantasies can (and does occasionally) evolve in a fully blown SK. Often, this type has in the secondary diagnoses control issues because they feel, their life is controlled by others. Bruce Mendenhall maybe rings a bell.
Then, there is the little group of mission-driven sks, who has also their own variant of prostitute killers. That is really rare and only for reasons of completeness listed here. This type is regularly religious or racial driven, hiding suppressed sexual issues behind a "more righteous than you" attitude. In fact, that is often the most brutal type. Billy Glaze is an example. But in fact, this type is overlapping with types of anger-assault-rapists than fully blown sks. Some of them use racial inferiority complexes as justification and some religious righteousness.
Then we have the lazy psychopath/sadist. Kind of sk101 in fact. Those are sadists who basically turn on prostitutes because of the easy availability. They would kill other women too if it wouldn't be so much work to lure them to a dark place. Those guys come technically in all levels of organization and generally, the lower the organizational level, the higher the probability, they catch themselves a prostitute.
And we shouldn't forget the garden variety coveter. A lot of prostitutes are killed by persons, they know (basically like every other murder victim too). However, compulsive stalker types and mission-driven types in the life-environment of the victims have often fantasies fueled by the profession of the hooker. It's that thing of fascination and at the same time disgust. Want to try but feels it wrong. Typically, that kind of sk is living in the same area as his victims, sees them and covets them. The coveter in his pure form is rather rare, but in combination with other inferiority complexes and the wish to be noticed, it appears this type has raising numbers.
So, here my long two cents, and I really tried to shorten it as much as I could :crazy:
