Pro-Prostitution [EDITED]

Let's continue the Twilight talk about making choices. Any woman making a choice does not a feminist make her. The choice itself must be pro-woman, pro-self. I.e. reproductive rights, and occasionally prostitution. Enter comedian George Carlin's thoughts:

 

Edit: Let me make it clear that because prostitution is, for the most part, not regulated, it is unsafe. If there comes a time (and there have been such times) when women are able to safely choose their clients, easily acquire medical supplies, and have a debt-free place to eat, live, and sleep, one can hardly deny them the choice to do something that they find empowering. The current situation with demeaning pimps and degraded young girls is not the prostitution I speak of. While I am skeptical about the empowerment factor, it is not my place to judge. Here, I direct readers to Igna Muscio's thoughts about 'Whores' and the characters of 'Companions' in the sci-fi show: Firefly. 

Muscio writes: “Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society. The fact that some women are considered “bad” is a puritanically based value judgment that reinforces a fatal division between women.”

“The measure of respect Whores receive is in direct proportion to the measure of respect all women receive. Until there is an established, respected place for Whores in this society, no woman will have an established, respected foundation of power.
There is no circumventing this.
Until there is a shift in consciousness about the potential of Whores, we will continue to live in a society which offers no formally acknowledged Teachers to awaken us to our power as sexual beings.
Aint no getting ’round this one either.”

"Companions are a cross between the oriental-style Geisha and the classic courtesan of renaissance Italy -- in many ways, they are the highest ranking nobility of the Firefly [universe]". From what I've seen and what I've been told, their power lies in reading people and counseling, using sex as a tool to further bring some form of self-actualization.