I'm guessing it stems from insecurity ("they'll be stealing our men!") and some sort of feminism ("women who sell their bodies are objectifying themselves!") and the idea that women can't surely be doing this as a CAREER CHOICE
I agree with this, its obvious just from reading mumsnet how a lot of society and other women see the situation
1. we are 'letting down' other women by playing into the notion that women are 'objects to be bought by men'
2. we steal husbands and destroy families, we also take money from childrens homes and food off their tables
3. we dont know whats good for ourselves, cant make our own decisions and are allowing ourselves to be 'abused'
4. probably the most bullshit one of the lot- all clients are monsters who dont respect women and are potential woman killers that need to be criminalized
I'll be extremely annoyed and upset and let down by the government if either we or our clients are criminalized, at the end of the day if they criminalize clients all the decent guys (most clients) will be too scared to visit us through fear of being arrested and subsequently outed, seeing as a lot of them have families and jobs
so the only clients left that will have the guts to see us will be the unsavory ones who dont care about breaking the law, thus putting us in danger as we are forced to see clients we wouldnt normally see in order to make money
I also think some women are threatened by us as above, they know that we are only ?100 or so away from their husbands cock and the only women who dont rip us apart for breaking up families and fucking husbands are the ones that believe were all drug addicted hopeless cases that need help
a lot of women have sympathy for the wg they see as trafficked, abused, forced or drug addicted but the odd thing is that whenever a wg announces to other women shes happy with and enjoys her job she is ripped apart, its very sad