So now we're discussing one of the the oldest, most insipid and hackneyed anti-prostitution arguments in the world "Would you want your daughter to do this???!!!"
It's a stupid, meaningless, hypothetical question, no different from asking:
Would you want your daughter to become a cleaning woman? Would you want your daughter to become a cashier in a convenience store? Would you want your daughter to become a prison guard?
There is no satisfactory answer to a question like that. The question itself implies an attitude of extreme condescension and scorn towards whatever job you insert at the end of "Would you want your daughter to...?"
So, I will answer the question with another question: Would you want your daughter to grow up to be an over-educated, elitist, condescending, radical feminist professor who looks down on women that have lower status jobs and tries to prevent them from making their own decisions about their lives?
My answer to that question is definitely, "NO."
You forgot one. How about a scum-sucking, ambulance chasing attorney like MERB's own Lionel Hutz?
I'd say preferentially yes to cleaning woman, cashier, and prison guard. I would not be especially proud but I could say "It's an honest profession."
Yes, it's a stupid and pointless argument and I agree with that it's not a particularly a great argument for abolitionists either because, as you said, there are probably hundreds of jobs we wouldn't want our sons or daughters doing but they need to be done and if you like living in doors and you want to be able to eat 3 meals you have got to do something. Shoot for the moon and make the fence. If you don't make the fence you may be a cashier or cleaning woman.
I don't think everyone could be an escort. Read Kate Holden's "
In My Skin." This is a great book and everyone of us should read it. Kate was a college grad musician that got in with the wrong crowd and got addicted to heroin so she started walking the street to support her habit. She got a break and started working in a high end brothel and she had to hide her addiction. It's a great book and she even talks about review boards and reading her own reviews. She finally quit heroin (after several attempts) because she sat around watching TV in the brothel and had to listen to all the other girls talking about their cars, their condos, their furniture, vacations etc and she realized that she was only working only for heroin. She wanted to have a normal life. Her parents loved her and they were glad she was working in the brothel and not walking the streets. So my point is that there are different levels of sex work. And she was proud of the sex work that she did. She talked about it almost like she was a therapist or in the medical field. She was not ashamed of her work in the brothel. This was not the problem. The problem was the big H.
"Society doesn’t like escorts" they also don’t particularly like prison guards or tax examiners yet we never see anyone having a problem with the idea of their daughter becoming one of these.
"Escorts deal with shitty clients" so do cashiers and waitresses. Yet nobody fears that their daughter will become a waitress.
They have to bring their steaks back because they aren't cooked enough. They don't have to deal with clients pulling off a condom or or they don't have to lick the balls of someone that they don't like. Also, a waitress serves customers out in the public. They don't have to go behind closed doors and have sex with them.
"It’s a dangerous job!" Yeah... Why are people so proud when their sons enter the military? What about hold ups in gas stations? Bank workers who face risks associated with the job? What about people working with sharks? Miners? Circus and the risk of injury? Police officers and firemen? Fishing, which has a very high rate of workplace fatality? What about the unit that takes care of disarming bombs?
Yes to the military. I'd rather she not but this would be a source of pride. You put stickers on your car and you cheer for whatever Academy that represents her branch. They don't bury escorts in Arlington. Ever been to the Tomb of the Unknown Hooker? Yes to all those that you listed...maybe not the circus. I hate the circus. It's an anachronism.
What about your sons being clients of a sex worker, like you?
No, not really Cap'n.