Here's my perspective on this subject:
Back in the day, quality woman over certain age equaled married woman which equaled virginity. There were exceptions such as widows, those engaged, and probably others I can't think of now. So for a man to go to a hooker was understandably something to be ashamed of....either he wasn't valuable enough to secure a wife or he was a POS cheating on his wife with what was basically the failures of the womanhood so to speak.
Nowadays there are women seen as empowered and independent who have the notch counts of the hookers back in the day. And there are guys dumb enough to wife them up and even knock them up. There are women who have casual sex with strangers off the street or off an app after 2-3 dates. Rinse and repeat.
Or women who jump from one STR to another. In this environment, I can't see the difference between getting with a hooker or with any of these type of women. I think getting with a hooker is more honest and with close to 0% risk of getting the headaches, heartaches and all kinds of other aches a man is liable to get by being involved with modern hoes. This forum alone is witness to what I'm saying...I haven't yet seen a thread about a guy suffering from heartache because of an escort, but there are plenty about what started as no strings attached sex, fwb, 'girlfriends' etc and soon developed into the guy having his head messed up by a modern hoe.
I've seen the argument made that the hooker doesn't love you, she's fvcking just for money etc...c'mon man, you think a woman you got off an app and who fvcks with you after 3rd date knows what love is? She fvcks with you because she's realized what a great guy you are after just 3 dates? You conveniently forget about the other 5 guys before you (in the current calendar year) who thought the same thing.

No, she has sex with you because she herself is fvcked up in the head, because she needs attention/validation whatever.