Totally agree, I've seen it happen.
An immature guy I knew in his mid 20s went shagging prossies and bragging to his mates.
They told their GFs probably in confidence, maybe after a few sherberts or between the sheets.
Said immature guy got a bit older and started to "get serious" with someone.
And got dumped, the young lady's mates shared his stories of his exploits with her.
Very similar story to me. A friend let it slip that he'd been to a local place and had a P&D. He then went a couple more times. He showed us the pics on "acemassage" The various ladies/other halves in our social groups were horrified and did exactly the same, sabotaged him when he met anyone they knew.
At the time, I'd had maybe 3 or 4 bookings with various girls. (over maybe 18months or so) and wasn't about to talk about it anyway, but their reactions cemented it in my head!
Also agree with the line above about it making you lazy. I find the girls I see on various dating apps (since I still hold a tiny hope that I'll meet someone and have a decent relationship one day
) are often no where near as attractive as any number of Escorts.
Why go through the whole rigmarole of a few drinks, a meal or 2, a small gift and just wishing that she'd put out. In fact a while ago, I did have the beginnings of something, all that dating stuff, until she gave me the heave ho. I worked out that I'd spent over £300 over a few weeks. When you start looking at it financially, it makes you wonder why you bother with stupid questions about "where this is going" when the alternative is a case of firing up the punting phone and going to a cashpoint.