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>husband gets bored and decides prostitutes are more fun
Could also have maids and concubines being part of this as rules of exclusivity only apply to married women, not her husband.
Wealthy men that can afford this often have their wives as the #2 to run the household, managing both slave and free women.
So even if a woman fails to get married at least she can hope for a way of of the wagie grind.
Granted they are still treated like whores as "entertaining" guests is a big part of their duties.

>pipe dream being entering into a marriage as an almost equal partner
Another aspect to that is free women keeping each other down.
Office politics have women pushing others into prostitution, to eliminate the women competing for marriage.
Brothel madams help her pimp to keep the whores in line, so it's common for brothels to be run by a husband and wife.
Climbing the ranks as a woman often means fucking over other women, there's no sisterhood only submission to men.