Answered Dec 10, 2017
People’s answers will tend to be influenced on their personal definition of, “selling sex”.
A person who only visualises desperate street prostitution (maybe right in front of your house) by addicted, exploited women and girls will likely be very opposed.
A person who visualises prostitutes as “other” in terms of socioeconomic status, race, sexual orientation, etc., will likely have very little empathy for them.
But what is “selling sex”?
A nice, respectable, white woman presents herself as being sexually appealing, while making “financially successful” one of her basic criteria for a prospective husband or boyfriend?
A woman who uses a man’s hope that she mighthave sex (when she has zero intention of doing so), in order to keep his attention, and receive non-cash resources, like restaurant meals or rides in his car?
An attractive young gay man, living in a nice house owned by his wealthy, much older and less attractive boyfriend?
A gay woman acting like a deadbeat, refusing to work, and living off of her responsible, hard-working girlfriend?
That seemingly respectable, fading-looks middle-aged woman in the suburbs, having sex with her husband, when she doesn’t want to, long after the emotional spark has gone out? Because she wants to keep the marriage intact, solely to keep the middle-class economic status to which she is accustomed?
Deep down, the real question is, “Which types of selling sex, in what manner, by whom, are viewed as acceptable, by whom?”