To ask why I feel sex work is a bit wrong?

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So I'm fully preparing to get flamed here!
Bf came round last night, I asked her how it was going as her university friends have moved in with her and her dh for a while. Bf's friend was doing webcam work with her dp previously and they were continuing to earn an absolute mint doing it (£30,000 in three months once!) I don't really see anything wrong with it as it's doing what they do anyway with a few cameras filming. The other girl is a medical professional, also part time escort. My bf was telling me about it as if it was the best thing ever. Apparently the agency only takes on clients earning over £50,000, and only contracts girls who know how to talk to and entertain very rich men. It involves a lot of trips to London and Europe, occasionally Dubai. Maybe I sound jealous but the whole thing made me a bit sad. Yes she's a grown woman, yes she knows what she's doing but imagine having to pretend that you find these old men interesting or sexually attractive?
She apparently specifies 40+ men only so she gets the really rich ones so I bet there's a good chance a lot of them are married, not that it's her fault they're choosing to sleep with prostitutes. I try so hard to be ok with it and think of it as feminist but I still feel it's a bit seedy. I'm trying so hard to not judge!

It's certainly an interesting parallel because (again) there are women who are willing to act as surrogates because they feel that what they are doing is making someone else's life better, and that they are 'good at' being pregnant, or enjoy pregnancy, and that it's up to them to do so.
And there are some people who reckon it's all disgusting and morally wrong and cannot be anything other than exploitative.

And the truth is, as usual, more complicated than that. TBH it seems to me that surrogacy does, rather more, involve 'buying' the surrogate's body than sex work does: the parents to be probably want to exercise control over what the surrogate does during the pregnancy (eg no booze or rollercoasters). And I don't know enough about it to know what happens if, for instance, the baby is born with severe health issues and/or disabilities.

@Lumene we must be because I can see lots of posts saying it should be fully decriminalised, we can’t tell women what to do with their bodies and women do not sell their bodies just a service.

I don’t need to, I understand the issues with surrogacy and I disagree with surrogacy.