>>I'm not saying anyone is asserting this, but I don't buy the idea that there's such a thing as "good" prostitution.

I guess you're not quite old enough to remember Wimin loudly proclaiming that all housewives are prostitutes?

Sheesh, prostitution is legal in more places than the Netherlands and while you and I may not partake, the reality is that it happens wherever there's a market and if it's illegal, it goes along with drugs, vice and crime. But markets aren't just low class and seedy either- consider the ex-New York Attorney General who paid over a thousand dollars per episode. As long as he had the $, where was the victim in that transaction? One day, perhaps going with a prostitute will be as disreputable as a man going with another male used to be.... society reared back in horror and people were blackmailed or lost plum posts not so long ago.