To think that you can absolutely buy consent

Yes, you're being very unreasonable. You go and have sex with strange men for money if it's fine for other women.

This is what I don’t get. Most people set conditions for the contexts within which they will and won’t have sex with somebody. Why is money an unacceptable condition?

No. If they wouldn't sleep with you if you didn't pay them, then it's clearly not true, freely given, consent, is it?

Taking a data protection view (which is my day job. I’m on my lunch break), consent can’t be conditional. It has to be freely given, unconditional, represent a genuine choice, not have an imbalance of power, be easily withdrawn etc.

If you’re exchanging consent for money none of these conditions apply and the consent is invalid.

When men pay strippers/dancers/sex workers they’re buying acquiescence. That’s not the same thing as consent.

A former acquaintance of mine is very clear that any man that wants to date her has to fund her lifestyle. I also have friends who are FSSW.

So yep some people’s consent can be bought.

As a society we have devised arbitrary rules around the circumstances in which it’s ok and not ok to have sex and for money apparently is not ok. (Out of boredom, revenge, curiosity, racial fetishisation, or just general fetishism etc are all a ok but don’t you dare have sex for money!)

Your analysis is too simplistic @TheNewWasp .

Someone can appear to be consenting, but in a context where her self-esteem has been crushed, and their other options barricaded from them, until she appears to believe that having her body used as a thing to ejaculate into by a man who doesn't see her as quite fully human, is ok - I don't think that consent is valid. Prostitutes who are given unconditional access to a path which gives them the ability to earn and thrive and live without having to do that generally accept the opportunity once they have the confidence that they can. One of the main tasks of a pimp or brothel manager is to keep the women believing that they can't, or that the alternative life will be too hard.

Yet, all those women who have married for money are somehow exempt!

Oh let me guess, they're all miserable too . .

Do you even know how widespread trafficking is,OP? Ever heard of coercion, blackmail, debt, usury, ‘protection’ rackets, or dishonest promises with strings?

Another one who believes the 'happy hooker' myth.

This is very ignorant. You should look up the arguments for the Nordic Model which will provide plenty of reasons - and accounts - as to why you're wrong