[elhombrelibre]

You think, to use the term loosely, most prostitutes are prostitutes because that’s a preferred career choice, apparently. I know it has more to do with poverty, drugs, abuse, and coercion. Look at nations that were once very poor, like South Korea. Korean women were both forced into it and chose it out of economic need. When Korea’s wealth improved, Korean women stopped doing it. Women from other poor countries are imported to Korea to be prostitutes. I guess you see this as maximizing their freedom, like how you want all drugs to be legal. In fact, it exploits their poverty for sexual gratification. It may be the oldest profession, but the Happy Hooker is a rare breed. That’s logically correct.

[ConservingFreedom]

it's simply not possible that they never bothered to acquire any other marketable skills, or that their (lack of a) moral code lets them see it simply as the easiest money available.

I know it has more to do with poverty, drugs,

Drugs are one way to lose any other marketable skills, and poverty is a result of not having any other marketable skills. You're not disagreeing with me here.

abuse, and coercion.

We were talking about legal prostitution in Nevada, where there's still no reason to believe coercion is possible: "And having been forced into legal prostitution, they don't report it to the authorities because ..."