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 == Morality of the anti-prostitution view == 

 The first point to make is that, of course, no woman should have to work as prostitute. But then again no-one should go hungry in this world either and many, many millions do go hungry. This is Earth not Heaven. So some women, many women, do work as prostitutes. How much choice these women have varies enormously.  
 I am reminded of a joke by Mark Twain:- Man to woman ""Would you have sex with me for a million dollars?"" Woman ""Oh yes"", Man ""How about for ten dollars? Woman ""What kind of of woman do you I think I am?"" Man ""We've already established that, now we are just haggling about the price"" 
 This sums up the problem. Within the basic class of prostitution ie. woman provides sex for man for money there are huge differences of price and therefore the nature of the job. At the bottom end of the market there are the crack-addicted street prostitutes who will give blow-jobs for £20/$30 or so, whose existence seems so utterly miserable they are slaves in all but name. Then at the higher end there are women in flats in central London/New York/Chicago etc who can easily earn £1000/$1500 (tax-free) for one day's work and will only work one day a week if they chose and may well plan to retire by the time they are thirty five.  Although both these set of workers are prostitutes they have nothing in common at all. Until we can distinguish between these very different groups the whole argument is meaningless.   "