A massage therapist who – like a sex worker – sells time and services rather than a physical product is not doing so ‘on the premise that [a client] can do what he likes with her body in the time he has purchased’, and to make such a statement about a massage therapist would be obviously horrifying. That it can be claimed about sex workers shows how deep the belief goes that women who sell sex give up all bodily boundaries: it is a belief shared – and mutually reinforced – by those who assault us and those who imagine themselves our defenders.
