Are we living in a split reality these days?
On the one hand, television programmes and the media generally remind us that prostitution is a foul business, that most prostitutes have no real voice of the own, since by definition they couldn't possibly want to be doing what they do, even if they didn't arrive in the false bottom of a lorry from Calais.
Yet all the identifiable instances of prostitution that come to our attention are of fairly normal people. A policewoman topping up her income. A high-end call-girl in an exposé with a footballer. And now an MP's wife of a few months' ago cheerily plying her business for £70 a go.
These, as I'm sure any concerned government spokesperson or a Mr Plod - working hard to stamp out that
vile trade that sees women exploited - are not typical. But this rather begs the question, at what point does the ever-increasing evidence of normal working women become 'typical'?
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