Tony, good news for you mate, there are such things as budget hookers as well.

Armchair, you can't support everyone's freedom and not support their right to have an abortion.

As for selling a oman, you have that all wrong as women of the night don't sell themselves, they sell their services and, if they're good at it what's the problem, or more so, what right does anyone elese have to say they can't do what they do best.

As I say, people have to learn to mind their own business.

There is clearly a demand for sex which is created by nature. That will not go away. Even our Christians have failed at wishing it away, as we note in the behaviour of some of their clergy and members. Deny human biology at your peril. That demand will keep resurfacing in one way or another, no matter which laws you try to implement. Right now we have some feminists making all sorts of claims about sex, but I suspect that men enjoying themselves is something they can't stand.

The article is full of mistakes. If I hire a cleaning lady and she cleans the toilets and floors for low pay, I am hiring her services, commoditising her for my use no more than paying twenty times as much per hour for an Escort. In fact I value the Escort's time far more, as is shown in what she is paid.

If I go to the pub and convince some female to come home for the night and I score a freebie, that is seemingly ok. Even if I pushed every available emotional button and told every fib imaginable, to get her to agree.

If a girl marries a rich guy for the money, is she not selling herself?

Prostitution is at least honest and there is no reason why both parties should not be willing participants.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that so many people are unable to accept the truth exposed by articles such as these, but it still depresses me.

"no other choice"?

Pfft!

Plenty of people suffer traumatic childhoods and don't become prostitutes.

Any woman "victimised" by prostitution is victimising herself.
If she didn't "hurt" herself that way, she would do it in another, as she has a negative self-concept.

Inequality?

The only reasons there isn't more male prostitution are:
1. most men are straight.
2. almost any woman who wants sex would never have to pay.

The one group of women who've historically had the most *independance* in a "man's world" were prostitutes.

What other job can earn $1000 an hour with no tertiary qualifications required?
VICTIM!?

//I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that so many people are unable to accept the truth exposed by articles such as these//

What 'truth' is that, Louisa?

Louisa I suppose your apparent unwillingness to accept the truth in many of the posts pointing out the problems with what's in the article should not be a concern.

As someone who does not use the services of sex workers my larger concern is with the sad idea that female inferiority exists and should be further entrenched in law.

The only logical basis that I can see in the way the supggestion is put for supporting the idea that male customers of female prostitutes are somehow more accountable for their choices in a consensual transaction is a belief that women are somehow less able to make decisions for themselves than their male peers. Not a position that I support.

R0bert