A powerful man offers to help a woman's career in trade for sex. Is this okay of him if a) she likes deal & accepts, b) he only ever asks once, she declines, c) deal is indirect, giving her plausible deniability? Pick 1st answer you agree with:
It is in the very nature of business transactions that one side uses an economic incentive to make the other do things that they would not be doing otherwise. That does not mean that all conceivable transactions should be either acceptable or outlawed (powerpoint at 3am?).
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Sure. But your explanation for why Robin's scenario specifically is policed against doesn't work. Unless of course prostitution has some kind of moral quality that other transactions don't (which you seem to doubt?)
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Most jurisdictions that make prostitution legal also recognize that it is not a job that most people would find acceptable to take, so nobody should be coerced into it.
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