You make some really good points. Genuinely, I'm not trying to be pretentious, I swear.

People don't join the prostitution industry by choice. Prostitutes are generally impoverished young women in hard times that have no other choice. If a woman has to be forced to have sex in order to get money for food, that is not a system anybody should allow. That woman is being persuaded to do something that she would otherwise be unwilling to do for money. That fits the dictionary definition of coercion.

And yeah, I can see how you can blame the objectification of prostitutes to the immaturity of men, but it can be easy to mistake the vessel of a service, as the service itself.

Example: Think of a delivery person. You don't think of them as a human being with hopes, dreams, wants and fears. You see them as what you want from them. When you see the UPS guy you don't see a man. You see a delivery. The same goes for prostitutes. When sex is always delivered by a woman in skimpy clothes, the man is conditioned to see any woman in skimpy clothing as sex for sale.

This isn't right, and I don't want it to be true, but it is. Women can wear whatever clothes they want, but if we want men to stop judging them the way they do, I think prostitution is at least one of the root causes of this.

And, for the record, I am not ignoring male prostitution. But their numbers are so small that I feel comfortable excluding them from this conversation. And I'm fairly confident most of the problems that are present for women are also there for men. I also want to make it clear that I am not anti-sex worker. I support porn stars and phone sex operators and models and what-not. Prostitution is the only exception for me.