akenaton... I was not excusing any abuse. Even in law one cannot consent to abuse. And there are millions of people in jobs they hate.

I was merely trying to balance the actual root thing around prostitution and I think I certainly made adequate point about abuse and exploitation never being acceptable. Lots of prostitution does not take part on the streets and some women have the right to choose what they wish to do with their own bodies.

I am wholeheartedly against exploitation and abuse. But if someone decides they want to do the job as a job then society should look down on them in any way. I suspect that many feel no esteem because they have been robbed of it by the way they are looked upon by most.

I was not - AM NOT - making a case for women to be made to do sexual acts free or for payment. Merely that if a woman chooses to do something (or man for that matter) that does not sit right with the moralists then they should not be condemend for it

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