I have look believed that whatever happening between two consenting adults behind closed doors is their business & their business alone. Whilst I might not like the concept of a lot of it but it is none of my business, nor is it the business of the ‘moral majority’, wimmins interest groups & definitely nothing to do with government ministers like Labour's Deputy Leader and Minister for Women, Harriet Harman as Aaronovitch points out …

Search my conscience as hard as I can, I cannot think of anything in principle wrong with a man or a woman choosing to pay for sexual contact, or to charge for it. As long as there is no coercion and no harm to others, I cannot see why I would be entitled to replace their judgment with mine. Experience - and the internet - suggests to me that there is enormous variation in human sexual appetites and interests, and that, yes, there are women who much prefer sex work to cleaning, and men who keep themselves afloat on the fantasies that they buy … Oh, and Harriet. What do you think happens to that “tackled demand” once you've tackled it?

Indeed commenter Mike Poulson ponders in the article’s comments section

What is it about women? We talk of the degradation of prostitution, the spiritual damage it causes, and a host of other female-orientated issues. As if it were a crime committed on women to have intercourse. If any woman wants to pay me to have sex, I doubt very much whether I would feel used and degraded afterwards. In fact, I spend most of my social life trying to give it away.

No doubt, the Government would feel a lot more comfortable about this whole issue if they ‘regulate it’ i.e. tax it & as a closing & slightly off-topic aside, if harridan Harman is the government Minister for Women ... who exactly is the Minister for Men?