Many critics and audiences felt this movie was inappropriately glorifying prostitution.

I don't think it was glorifying prostitution. I doubt anyone ever watching Pretty Woman suddenly decided to become a prostitute.

In no way did it glorify prostitution. It has been a couple of years since I have seen it, but I clearly remember Skinny Marie being pulled from a dumpster and their lifestyles did not look fun or appealing in any sort of way. No woman watched this and was like, that’s it, I have found my calling! lol..

These days the Gere character would be arrested for human trafficking.

I can't recall any scene or dialog that glorified prostitution. Even Kit at the end of the film was going to take classes to get out of the game. The most you could say is that someone who totally misses the point of the film might think that prostitutes routinely meet rich single men who sweep them off their feet and marry them giving them a Cinderella ending. But that would really be missing the point.

Its a weird Cinderella storyline. But doesn't really glorify prostitution, more so humanized the women who do this.

It does glorify prostitution. Many years ago, someone told me she wanted to be a hooker in order to meet a rich guy like in the movie. She was very serious.

Glorify might be too strong a word but desensitize certainly would be an apt description. Women trading sex for financial gain is far more common today than it was a couple of generations ago. No street walking but a ticket to college for anyone serious about school and a whole industry geared toward dressing women in tight and revealing clothing. The bar is set quite low at a fair number of colleges in terms of intellect yet those there for culinary science (food preparation) freely mingle with those in the dorm that will be engineers, doctors, or lawyers. Guys don't have to cruise the red light district but check out which girls are heading to the gym already dressed in their spandex tights before they get there. Far more common even at the time of the movie was couples having arrangements where the woman understood that she had to keep her body in shape and dress hot with the guy keeping the credit cards paid, cash in her purse, and a high profile address to live at. In the cities I knew at the time of the movie street walking was pretty much an anachronism other than for women in very poor emotional or mental health who most likely could not function in a traditional relationship between a man and a woman.

I find that I take SHOWERS deeper than most critics & audiences