Anecdata here, but I knew a couple of sex workers (one was a stripper, one was an escort) at university. Both of them looked at their options - food service wo

Anecdata here, but I knew a couple of sex workers (one was a stripper, one was an escort) at university. Both of them looked at their options - food service worker, work/study job in the bookstore, and retail employee at the local big box stores and decided that the level of compensation, ability to set one's own hours, ability to choose ones own clients, and relative level of risk was such that being a sex worker was more remunerative and gratifying. They had other options. They chose sex work knowing the risks, knowing they could quit if they wanted to, and knowing their alternatives. I'm aware that not every sex worker enters sex work that way, but it's equally wrong to say that all sex workers do sex work because they have no other options.