Is escorting the same as prostitution?
It totally depends who you ask. Ask any law-maker wanting to pass some tough laws to get support for the next election, and he will tell you that if your boyfriend gives you a gift on your birthday and you have sex afterwards, that is also prostitution.
For many escorts, we do not view it as prostitution. We are trading companionship for something that we agree on (such as money). We can choose to stop whenever we want. We're not forced into it and we're not managed by a pimp who makes us do it.
After all, as any mature, experienced woman would tell you, you will likely run into some loser boyfriend in your lifetime whom you will sleep with 400 times, and you find out he's been cheating on you all along. Many escorts would rather have an arrangement where the guy agrees to pay $200 each time, and walk away with $80,000 instead of bad memories.