Edit to add my opinion so I’m not just replying “I agree” to 90% of comments. I think it should be legal, properly regulated, taxed and viewed as a profession. I haven’t personally engaged in it but I have no moral objection to it. I do hate the common sentiment that it was the individual’s “only option” though.
Kind of conflicted?
I’m fine with the idea of exchange of money for sexual services. I don’t have any moral qualms with that practice.
My concern is that, even in some legal structures, it tends to encourage the preditation of some sex workers for the benefits of others exploiting people’s sexual labor.
Exactly how i feel too.
Every now and then there are headlines how some restaurant made their immigrant chefs work absurd work days with very little pay, or how some construction workers had been told they cant leave the site at all and they are made to live in shipping containers etc etc.
Prostitution has deep connection to human trafficing and using narcotics to controll the workers with addiction, so its not like every professional of love would magically be saved in an instant.