The reality is prostition helps many young girls in their early 20s escape poverty and set themselves up for life. They can easily earn 100-200k a year, and after 2-3 years buy a house and move onto other occupations or start a family. Ones that stay on beyond that do so out of desperation or laziness, a tiny minority are actually forced to stay in the industry against their will.
People who critize this need to understand the options for women from places of abject poverty are not great either.
This. I had a friend who got herself through a medicine degree in the UK via prostitution. Her parents' income was too high to get a grant and good loan but they couldn't help her because of the chains of debt. She told them she was working in Dominos branch.
She's a surgical reg now, happily married for over 10 years with two children so did ok out of it and wasn't harmed in any way and says she quite enjoyed it.
That's a pretty rare story though. It could have very easily ended up with her either dead or pushed to use drugs. Think of her as the lucky exception in a long long string of girls that tried the same thing and that ended up being eaten by 'the life'. I have not one but two nieces that ended up like that and where once they were bright and healthy girls they are now shadows.
Wouldn't you enjoy having sex and getting paid a good wage for it? I really don't understand why casual consensual sex is seen as something immoral or shameful.
People who critize this need to understand the options for women from places of abject poverty are not great either.