I don't think it's a bourgeois illusion to find it easier to sell labor power in such predominantly mental labor as law, education, writing, etc. than to sell the same in prostitution proper. Prostitution proper, with an exception of well-run upscale businesses, must come with a large variety of occupational hazards, especially in nations where prostitution is illegal -- risks of rape & other kinds of assault (especially in the case of streetwalkers), of control by organized crimes, of harassment & extortion by the police, of STDs, of social ostracism, and so on.
Other kinds of work in the sex industry -- e.g., stripping, modelling, working in a topless bar -- probably aren't as physically taxing as prostitution and may very well beat, say, data entry work, secretarial work, etc. (not to mention physically taxing non-sex work) in many women's calculation.
And yet other kinds of work in the sex industry -- say, editing _Playboy_ -- can't be so different than doing the same in non-sex industries. Compare telemarketing, making phone calls on behalf of a collection agency, etc. with working a sex phone line. Most likely, the latter is on the average more pleasant than the former. -- Yoshie
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