Wouldn't you say that lowlife status comes not from the job but stigma in society ? Most people would consider drug dealing a lowlife job.
If you made drugs legal it would be just a job selling plants.
I agree with the point on lack of recourse and we could debate whether stigma is deserved or not.
I think lowlife/stigma comes from weird attitude to sex most of us have.
As things are in the real world right now I agree with you. I just wanted to throw that in, I don't wish to instigate some long winded debate 
Absolutely, and I'm pleased at least someone has got the point!
We can debate
oh golly-gosh, is the stigma deserved, and
oh, what is the cause, and
oh what if, till the cows (no pun intended) come home. But the
facts are that it is a lowlife occupation in our society. I am not taking a position on whether it
should be, but I can't offhand think of any societies where it isn't. It is simply is.*
It's a lot more precise that saying you are 'going for a walk on the wild side' or some such romanticised bollocks. Of course, there will always be deluded fluffies that want to slaver about "treating her as a lady" and "show her respect guys" and "not divulging any intimate details." They can't accept in themselves that they've just shagged a whore. A lowlife. A character that is continuously under the radar rather than having a proper life. Yes, a lowlife. All the silly righteous fucks that interpret that as some sort of moral condemnation are up their own biblical arses. They are not protesting about the whore, but wanting to insist of their own choirboy purity by making her into something she's not.
So what about the pedant that says euoooo marm, but a person is not the job, she is just a 'working girl' so doncha be so rood! Well fuck them basically, because it is fantasy, (and "WG" is for PC purposes).
You only see her in her working capacity, as a whore, and the more you try to cross the line and see the 'real her' the more you are breaking the deal. Did you go to see a whore today or did you go to see Amanda who for the time that she sees you and (and a hundred other guys) just happens to become a whore? Clearly yu went to see a whore. So please, stop pretending it's like a girlfriend or that you are simply giving her something as a 'present' for her 'time and fucking company' no doubt.
*dictionary definition for the philologically challenged: A low-life or lowlife is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community.