I had a PhD Psychologist friend who believed
women were natural sexual opportunists,
that manipulating males for personal gain
underpinned much of female activity.
I was repulsed by his “Vision”
Prostitution, from that viewpoint, is just one variant,
just a particularly dangerous and morally repugnant one.
Dating, with expectation of sex out of wedlock,
in exchange for... whatever
Is not much different however
Manipulation of males using the tools of “Beauty”
is a time honored tradition and
Girls often start learning its nuances by age... 4, sometimes earlier
Sounds like your shrink friend and pedophile Alfred Kinsey would get along splendidly.
He said that you were repulsed by your friend’s vision. But you never stated whether you came around to his point of view. I think you did by implication.
Of course, that does not speak terribly well of the female gender, although when you think about how men act, that has a similar impact. The simple fact is that our species rose to become the apex predator on this planet because we were smarter and more opportunistic than any other species. Just because we haven’t had a serious challenger for domination of the planet in at least 50000 years, doesn’t mean that these characteristics have been bred out of us.