You’ve met every sex worker on the planet? You must be very busy.

Sex work is predicated on the idea that not everyone considers physical intimacy to be irrelevant and icky, but that it is indeed a vital part of a healthy emotional life. It won’t kill a person to go without, but it will justifiably make many wish to be dead. If you don’t feel that way, yay for you. But most of us…

Presumably the consent for sex in your example wouldn’t be based SOLELY on the single status of the partner/conference-goer. There is also a desire for sex (from both parties). Not so with the prostitute. The sole reason for a prostitutes consent IS the payment. Remove payment the consent doesn’t exist. That is rape.

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Thanks for addressing not one single pertinent point and making a smoke screen of my (gasp) impolite verbiage.

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Sex worker here (stripper & escort for 20 yrs). Thank you for this. I could write a book about the misconceptions not only of the general public but these Jez commenters.