I was never personally a sex worker of any stripe, but I've known a few, and they've told me stories of their old work friends. I'm fine with it. One of the people I knew liked it enough to keep doing it even when money got tight, all but one of the rest I personally knew were about as fine with it as I was working retail. The other one had done it intermittently as needed for food.

It's work. It should be legalized, and regulated, like most other work is. One of my friends ran a brothel for a while (while working in it as well), and from what they said, they ran a good ship there. Had in-house regulations similar to OSHA's, workers were all well-paid, had benefits, etc.