I'm trying to figure out what you think I believe, and the nearest I can come is that you seem to think I'm judging women for behavior that I find distasteful b

I'm trying to figure out what you think I believe, and the nearest I can come is that you seem to think I'm judging women for behavior that I find distasteful because I just can't comprehend what life is like in the "dark pits in which people live." Let me be clear: I am not decrying the behavior of women. I am criticizing VCs who expect sex from women who are trying to get funded. I recognize that some women resort to various kinds of sex work because they are financially desperate, while others do it because it is work they enjoy and it is lucrative (also to be clear, some women do it because they are forced into it by traffickers or others. This is not ok). I believe that prostitution should be legal, because its prohibition is bad for sex workers and makes their work less safe. I believe that consenting adults should be able to do what they choose in the bedroom. However, soliciting sex from women who are seeking funding has no place in the ethical practice of venture capital, for the reasons I outlined in previous comments (it is coercive and creates a bad environment for female entrepreneurs). Additionally, accepting sex from someone seeking funding also has no place in the ethical practice of venture capital, because it is likely to cloud judgement and produce bad investments. This is not idealism, it is a rational response to the fact that women had few other options than to "use their bodies" for millennia. People will do what they do, but if a VC tries to get a women to have sex with him in order to get funding, and instead of "using her body" she sues the shit out of him, he got what he deserved.