When did "providing" become paying for female entertainment needs?? That's not providing, that's dating and dating is really prostitution.
I mean really, dating is prostitution if you look at the history. Men would "make a date" which was code for pick up a hooker back in the 1920s.
Dating Has Always Been Like Work
In fact, through the 1910s, you see Progressive do-gooders and police who believe that women who “make dates” with men to go to a bar or a restaurant are simply doing sex work. And the line between “straight” dating and sex work—I believe—always was and remains blurry. However, in the later 1910s and 1920s you start to see relatively wealthy people—the flappers and fussers we still read about in F. Scott Fitzgerald novels—imitating working-class ways. And as vastly more middle-class women start going to college in the 1920s, dating becomes thoroughly mainstream.