What’s a prostitute? Seriously – I knew of a woman (a person who was the mother of a girl that my ex-wife went to college with) – who was not a street-walker at all.
This was a women who, when she was married, had become accustomed to a posh life style. She had some money of her own, but not much.
Every summer she would go up to Saratoga for the racing season, “on retainer” we should say, with one or more men. She slept with them for money as a purely contractual thing. She didn’t love them, she was there as a convenient sex toy at a price, every summer. She was more like a call girl, but for months at a time.
Is that prostitution? As currently defined, of course it is. But this woman wasn’t not pimped, she handled her own business affairs, and looked like she was having a good time.
My point: not all prostitutes are walking the streets and diseased