Sunshine your points are exactly right..I do get frustrated..but thats my issues I know..with bog standard questions..especially as regards the obvious stigma laden ones around std`s, abuse, drugs etc! Society is crammed with fear around the sex industry on these issues. Despite the vast majority of all the aforsaid being within the non-sex industry population!!
Though I see what you say about question one..though I have no problem with it, your point is relevant!
There has & will always be a fear around women who are sexual honest or free. There are reasons..but many people will not accept those reasons, or even know of its existence if you get my drift?
The Mother complex being a fundemental core of all those fears. Also unbalanced anima (feminine within), which is similar!
The male ego is fragile, but after all it is up against it & I feel thast rather than jibbing or decrying its existence..we as females need to understand the part it plays in the human existence. The unbalanced feminine part of males..should also be accepted & understood..its the nearest men will get to understanding the female & releasing himself from those feminine fears & bonds. & I must say the reverse is the case for women with their male side.

I really respect guys..rather than seeing them as the enemy or the customer in a negative way..we have just as much to learn from them as they do us. Acknowledgement of the essences at large & the emotions that drive them..goes a long way to understanding with understanding comes wisedom!
You obviously enjoy your job..well done, your service is as valuable as any care-giver..a doctor, a priest, a psychologist..all rolled into one! We accept, to some extent the value of these professionals & understand why they charge so much (except for priest..but they don`t do bad)..yet feel that even to charge for sex is bad, even evil!..& when charged, clients are always trying to knock you down..they don`t do this to any other prof group!
The trolls are just lost souls..flotsam & jetsam of the sexual oceans!

>That is the surface reasons we see in societies all over the world. I see it as something much deeper though, & is part of the same for all women..its just that prostitutes show the socialogical contempt much more readily, because she is set apart & criminalised.

This is very true. I also see in addition in the root of this is male fear of female promiscuity. Perhaps it is something very instinctive.. related to fear of not being able to have woman carry his DNA. For this... men have subjected rebellious women to violence and death for centuries.. to the point where women also view promiscuity as universally distasteful and dangerous behavior for women.

inequality is evident in criminal prosecution.. as the male clients are rarely prosecuted whereas femme prostitutes of all genders are eagerly prosecuted. ( BTW I do not support Sweden style of decriminalization)

It's all about power, and keeping it away from us and our bodies.

Sadly,I fear you are absolutely right, Sunshine. And also, sadly, so long as the power to enact laws remains with men, the laws keeping women downtrrodden will remain unchanged. And I think much of it does have to do with that first basion of power over men - the mother image. It seems silly, but I think that subconciously, many more men than will admit it, want to punish their mothers for having been so all-powerful during their formative years.

<want to punish their mothers for having been so all-powerful during their formative years>

I don't agree with that. My mother is a narcissistic borderline who made my life hell growing up. However i don't hate women and maybe it made me see the need to woman to have more say in society (politics) more control of their life, and more control over sex. Maybe I'm just the odd duck out. I see prostitution as a valid and socially good profession (as opposed to maybe a hedge fund manager which is socially questionable in my book). I know there is a stigma, but I would never hesitate to see a prostitute and see her as doing a valuable service and treating her with the same respect as any professional (as long as she acted like a professional).