You then gradually slide into trying to find “The punt” which in reality never exists. You end up trawling through AW and see nothing.
Can definitely relate to that.
Not proud of it, but I have at times literally looked through the profiles of every single girl available in the West Midlands (some 1401 profiles currently) trying to find some hidden amazing prossie only to be exasperated at what I find. Then I look at my primary HL, there's about 50 WGs on there, about two thirds I've already fucked. I think, well, it'd be enjoyable to fuck those ones again, but I just can't really be arsed, then I consider the ones I've not already seen, and one by one I rule them out or just think, well, some other time... Then the cycle starts all over again.
But no doubt it'd be a hell of a lot of fun to fuck all of those prossies one by one...
Bottom line though, is that this is a expensive hobby, especially these days. It can also be very addictive.. Something I would definitely say to some one thinking of getting into it, is make sure you can definitely afford it, consider it carefully, and then consider it again before you start. If you're sure you can, then fill your boots lad, if not then maybe other pursuits may suit you better, or a backup safety net such a civvie sex options might be something you want to think about. Fucking a whore and fucking a civvie are two very different things though, both have there distinctive good and bad points. But there is nothing else in life quite like fucking a whore, I guess most prossies realise this and take advantage of that, so I suppose in that sense it can be a mugs game. I do agree with the OP that there is something to be said in the sense of just having a nice healthy civvie relationship and enjoying that.. That's easier said than done though. Not everybody wants that, not everybody is able to find that. There's also no doubt that I've spent infinitely more money on my missus and other civvie women over the years than I have ever spent on prossies, I've also had sex with her thousands of times too, and I've enjoyed it probably 90% of the time too. Punting stats like that I don't think are possible. But you get the variety and the thrill of the taboo in punting. I can't get that with the wife.
Maybe I'm a mug for not properly valuing having something many would dream of having, Mumsnetters would certainly agree. But eyes once opened cannot be closed. I often think of punting a bit like smoking, it's a dirty and expensive habit, and you may quit, but you're always a smoker, and you always lament the price of it.