"Johns" are not some monolithic hive mind. Polling consistently shows that somewhere between 15% - 25% of men have paid for sex. It's a cross-section of very normal people in society. A customer base that diverse isn't controlling any industry.

Your personality sparkles even through the internet's imperfect medium, and you're really quite startling pretty.

Check out the works of Veronica Franco, a prominent Venetian courtesan and poet of the late sixteenth century. Her Terza Rime and Lettere Familiare contain remarkably assertive defenses of both sex workers and intellectual women, a group that had considerable overlap at the time

"da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum..."

"Give me a thousand kisses, a hundred more,
another thousand, and another hundred..."

Catullus 5 (1st century BC)