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The journalists at lgbtqnation seem to think it's illegal.
Escorting is not prostitution.
You absolutely cannot argue against it being a grey area though, there are plenty of 'escorts' that are just prosititutes with extra steps.
Granted, I don't have anything against sex workers — I just don't think your argument is very strong when it boils down to 'I didn't have sex with him because he paid me, I had sex with him because of this beautiful platinum necklace he bought me! Totally different.'
The point is escorting often isn't about sex.
You hire a prostitute specifically for the sex. You hire an escort for the company, often as eye candy, but an escort may very well deny you sex.
You absolutely can. The existence of escorts who are not "just prostitutes with extra steps" is sufficient. Just as many (most) massage parlors don't offer "happy endings", there are escorts (such as the one in the article claims to be) who do not perform sexual acts with their clients. Those escorts are not in a legal gray area - they are on the legal sideof a bright line.
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