Well that's what they say when asked. The money is apparently pretty good.
This article from a couple of years ago suggests that the defendant was so keen to work as a prostitute that she broke the rules and borrowed her sister's health certificate; The idea that either sister would take the trouble to either obtain a certificate through the correct channels (or by breaking the rules), in order to work, strongly suggests that they were both keen to do the job.
Sure, it's a bit icky having sex with a bunch of strangers; but some people tolerate it better than others - and there are plenty of icky jobs out there that do not involve sex, where nobody suggests that the people doing the job are not there of their own free choice.
Cleaning public toilets is icky; but nobody forced me to do it - the wages were enough to persuade me to do the job, and nobody said I had to enjoy every minute of it.
I haven't found any reliable statistics about how many prostitutes (of any gender) engage in prostitution voluntarily or are coerced into prostitution.
And yet...
Human trafficking usually means prostitution, almost always women and children who are tricked or coerced into prostitution in a foreign country. In such cases, it is generally the case that the sex workers actually retain almost nothing of any wages earned and are not free to leave the trade.
It seems that despite no reliable statistics, you claim some detailed knowledge of Human trafficking, and are convinced that it is sufficiently common to be worth mentioning in this context. That's rather... odd.
I have heard of human trafficking, but I have not seen any evidence to suggest that it is commonplace in Australia, or indeed anywhere in the world; And there is good reason to think that its victims form a small minority of all sex workers, at least in my part of the world - most of the prostitutes I have encountered in my life have shown no sign at all of being in the industry against their will.
Insofar as human trafficking of prostitutes exists in Queensland, it is certainly not common in the legal parts of the industry - as the article I linked shows, even minor breaches of the paperwork requirements for sex workers in Queensland are detected and brought to court. Given that the authorities were quick to detect that two sisters were sharing a health certificate, it seems implausible in the extreme that foreign sex workers could be illegally brought into legal brothels here and made to work against their will.
I was on a management raining course with a guy who managed a brothel here in Brisbane, and his description of the compliance requirements and police and health authority inspection and audit rules was decidedly incompatible with running a brothel that is trying to conceal illegal activity.
Of course, any person who is forced to have sex (for money or not) against their will, is the victim of rape; But there is no reason to think that every prostitute is a rape victim, any more than there is reason to think that every taxi driver is the victim of a car-jacking.
I wonder if the word 'keen' means something different on your side of the pond than mine.
Did you read the linked article?
The defendant and her sister in the case being reported, and the magistrate before whom the defendant appears, all treat this case as an unexceptional violation of the applicable trading regulations, and the defendant is handed down a small fine for misrepresenting herself as having a certificate to practice that she does not in fact have - because she borrowed her sister's. There is no way that such a case could have arisen had either prostitute been unwilling to work in her chosen profession; The defendant in the case is so eager to work as a prostitute that she is willing to break the rules and start work before she has obtained the medical certification required by law. She later obtained that certificate, and the magistrate fined her $200, as a 'slap on the wrist' for not doing so before she started to work as a prostitute.
If somebody wants to take a job offer as, say, a taxi driver, and he works a few shifts before his private hire license has been issued, I would say that this showed he was keen to start his new job; If you don't agree that in both scenarios - the one in the article, and my fictional 'taxi driver' example - we have someone who is keen to do a job, then clearly your definition of 'keen' is very different from mine - and from that of the majority of the English speaking world.
Personally I would not want to be a prostitute, nor have I any interest in employing one. But I do know people who have been employed as prostitutes and they don't seem to have any complaints - it is well paid and not particularly arduous work, if you have the right temperament for it.
