Good for you for breaking the chains. And there is nothing dark-side-ish about patronizing a sex worker, as long as you treat her as well as you would anyone else you hire, say, a massage therapist or a physio.
And if it helps you connect with women without an explicit pay-for-sex contract, that's a bonus.
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