Now, I cannot be that hardlined about it, Martin. No way.
The reality is, it is sex work. That is the only term we have for it, prostitution aside.
I think the distinction was made adequately, that there is a portion of sex work, that is not prostituted peoples, nor would they identify as such. In fact, I found a personal experience applicable in this scenario.
About 20 years ago now, long before poker became the fad it is today, I was offered 60,000, for 6 weeks of "my time", on a warm equatorial island. Now sure enough, it was not just made for sexual access, but also for access to my mind, and thoughts, believe it or not, for a 6 week rental purchase agreement.
A professional poker player, from southern Europe, met me in a game of high stakes poker, and thought he should get to know me, after I had calmly told all the other men in the game, that I would flip the table over, with 10's of thousands on it, if I heard another sexist remark, so they had better stop, or keep count of their chips. And I meant it.
Not too many women played poker professionally back then, and if they did, they just went with the intense patriarchial norm.
Yes, it would have been legally defined in a document. He even sent a formal agent to my door, with the contract parameters and Concord tickets.
And had I decided to take the offer, I would not have thought of myself as a prostituted person. It would have been a choice that I made, after careful deliberation.
Was much less meek 20 years ago, than I am today. Pretty damn mellow, nowadays in compare, as a matter of fact.
And I would have been, and would be, deeply insulted to have my choice, labelled as an act of prostitution upon me.
I am well able to make my own choices, then and now.
PS: after I refused to accept the contract, subtle threats were levelled against my partner as an inducement to accept, had I caved to that pressure, I would have fetl prostituted.