Gotta love those human-merchandise analogies. I think this dude in the 19th century wrote something about commodity fetishism and the resulting alienation and dehumanization of the... what to call it, the person.

"So if prostitution is a capitalist transaction, a job like any other, why is it gendered?"

Uh, no, not really. I think it actually illustrates a big part of WHY I don't like porn — think through the implications of this statement in terms of the intersectionality of gender, class, and power here.

Oh, but these girls have just run away from worse home situations/are doing this because they WANT to/are lying about having abusive pimps!