Thee was a book about thirty years ago by a famous madam who said there was a time in many a girl's life when she realized she had given away a million dollars.
That might be amusing if the consequences were not so grim. I hope that the increasing acceptance of women in the professions and in many occupations formerly closed to them will keep more and more women from having to make such a horrible choice,especially now that AIDS has been added to all the other "social"(a vile euphemism) diseases.
At least we have come a long way from the conditions that made the Roman "meretrix" mean "prostitute".