Well said! There’s plenty of room for a wide range of experiences but I don’t understand the rationale that a woman who spends time with a client, which includes sex as part of that time, is somehow doing something inherently demeaning to women. It’s only reinforcing that women are there to service men if you assume that’s all that’s going on.

When we spend time with escorts we talk and laugh and enjoy each other’s company and the joy of human connection. The escorts I know say this happens a lot. Sure, sometimes they are treated like a one dimensional sex toy but being treated poorly by clients happens in every profession. Often there is more going on than just sex, with some clients sharing personal struggles and having a place to be seen and heard.

The people who are demeaning women are the ones who are projecting their beliefs about how they feel about what it would be like to interact with someone on an intimate level and be paid to do it with no basis for that other than their own ideology which ironically includes patriarchal notions around sex and women.

Totally agreed that women in ivory towers shouldn’t pontificate about topics they have no personal or direct knowledge of.

No one would be a garbage collector if it didn’t pay well either and there are some people who actually enjoy the work. The guy we see left a responsible job at a big tech company to escort. He wanted less pressure, more travel, to spend fun time with people bringing them pleasure, etc. Why isn’t that valid — for a woman as well?