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In reply to the discussion: I know prostitutes [View all]Xithras
(16,191 posts)Your point is partially valid in that it's true that a large portion of prostitutes are there willingly and are not being abused. My ex worked as a high end travelling escort in the SF Bay Area and fully paid her way through UC Berkeley seeing only 2-3 clients a month. She had men fly her all over the world, once spent weeks in the Medditeranean with a client, and she charged for every minute of it. It was her choice, and one that she rabidly defended to the prudes who tried to attack her for it.
But if you think it's not about the money, you are gravely uninformed. I dated her. I met quite a few of the other escorts she worked with during that time. I couldn't count the number of conversations we had about the economics and safety of what they were doing.
Not ONE of them would have been doing what they did if they weren't being paid to do it. Even for high end escorts, the decision to enter that field is primarily economic. They had no problems or complaints about what they did, but they were 100% in it for the money.