I can't quote you Yeezevee, but I think prostitution makes the woman as a whole a thing and more of a commodity. Prostitution gives complete ownership of a woman's body. Even if she's a high class escort who has all kinds of security measures (not sure what they are but I am sure they have them), she isn't in control. It's the client who is in control of her WHOLE self. The client is in control because they paid to be in control. And likely the client isn't paying her for her mind. It comes down to ownership of her body and her sexuality.
This isn't prostitution in the normal sense, what you're describing is sexual slavery. Prostitutes as a whole, in the western world at least, are being paid for a service and dictate before hand what limits there are, what they will and won't do. Of course there are risks if the client is a psycho, but most clients are normal people.
Someone here posted that there's not much difference between a prostitute and a dildo. That I think is the disadvantage women face in prostitution: she's a thing. She's an orifice and that's the sum of her whole existence. And it's kind of an othering that happens. People can other groups of people and can use this rationality to brutalize them and have done so throughout history. Same way, when women are othered (as in they're just body parts that serve a purpose for sexual release), it allows people to justify brutality against those women who engage in sex work.
Again, this is slavery, not the whole of prostitution.
I don't think people who traffic women think of them as individuals. No they're things, commodities, that have the necessary body parts they need. My thing is that a person is likely to be more aware that they cannot treat a woman badly if they are not viewed as a thing or have a sense of ownership over the woman's body. There is a whole different power ratio between two people who are not paid for sex engaging in it as there is between a client and a prostitute. I feel I had a lot more power over my being as a media relations person than a prostitute does over her being no matter what she charged.
This unfortunately does happen. Traffickers don't see them as human beings, simply objects to use for their own gains. Slavers basically. Prostitution has always existed and probably always will, it's madness to not simply accept this, come up with appropriate laws and enforce them. It's largely the lack of aggressive enforcement in the Netherlands/Amsterdam that has allowed unlicensed, unregulated and illegal sexual "services" of the type you describe to flourish.
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