If you're independent, mentally sane, and not blowing your money on drugs, you could actually give a better to life to your kids that 99% of people.
I knew someone who invested enough of the money she made that way so that her daughter would never have to work a single day of her life, and she was like 40yo.
I mean, everyone who works is a prostitute in the more abstract sense. We are all renting the use of our bodies for money. The only difference between me and a sex worker is that I'm renting my body to someone to be used toward a different purpose.
Love is great because it’s innocent and exploratory, I find it hard to believe these sex workers deal only with clients who are in it for romantic aspects, which means a lot of the time these women will be taking on whatever nasty bullshit their client is dealing with in their own life…
And that isn’t something you can suppress for the rest of your life. It will eventually seep out and begin to distort your view of reality. And no amount of money can fix that.
Not trying to be too cynical but it’s a major point to consider if you want to weigh the topic as a whole.
Anyone working a job that deals with a lot of drunk people, or criminals, or mentally unwell will experience a fair amount of nasty behavior. It sucks, but people do the work because it's their best option and others rarely judge them for it. Except sex workers, they get judged by practically everyone.
In prostitution the physical encounter is the whole job, there's no avoiding it. Your body is the product.
Sex itself is also highly exceptional emotionally. Your body reacts to sexual behavior neurochemical in a way that's incomparable to really any other activity, and it's unique in how it can affect your relationships and self perception.
Please note that I make No judgement against sex workers when I say this.
I don't think it's so shocking that not a lot of people would actually be above that bar.
Therapy is not the universal requirement for mental health that many people seem to think it is. Most people just muddle through and manage to stay reasonably sane without developing substance abuse disorders. In many cases that might not be optimal, but it's not insane or drug-addled either.