Alexa Taylor said:
some clients or hobbyists who were extremely condescending and a bunch of big hypocrites
The terb / "hobbyist" population in general is extremely unenlightened, ignorant, and bigoted about these issues, which is really surprising, until you think about who they are in real life. If you ignore for a moment that they buy sex for money and just categorize them as a demographic you won't be so surprised by the attitudes they hold. Really they've got the same blinders on that other older/middle-aged middle/upper class married family men have in general. Conservative voting, family value oriented, reactionary, non-liberal, men-are-providers, women-have-kids type guys.
Don't believe it? Go read those threads on divorce where it's taken for granted that anything the woman gets in a divorce is a "cost" to the guy. It's inconceivable to these guys that the woman might be contributing to the mortgage, they just don't think that way. Similarly, while they buy sex for money, they have some of the same attitudes towards prostitution that other guys in their demographic have.
Really, probably most guys in the demographic buy sex for money, and yet the prevailing attitude is prostitution is wrong, it's against family, etc., coming really from these same guys when they're talking in public and pretending to be upstanding citizens.
It strikes me that most women, when asked abstractly as a political question, likely have a more enlightened view of prostitution than most men do. When the Star ran its articles awhile back the male authors of the main article wrote all kinds of bigoted crap; then two opinion pieces ran by female writers that were in various ways fairly englightened.
Don't assume that just because a guy uses prostitutes that he's got a positive view of them.