Was Glory an escort girl?

My take is a little different because I see her as being the cause of her brother's problem. She says, "...I put my brother together with Frank. Going to Frank is like taking heroin to cure an alcohol problem..."

This is not an innocent proposition. She made a bad choice to help her brother by hooking him up with a known criminal. She knew Frank "put money on the street." This is not innocent knowledge. It's not really even naive. She knows he is a loan shark, and she knows what happens when Frank does not get his money - plus enormous vigorish - he hurts people. She may not know he kills them, but that is not the point. She has a choice: let her brother take his lumps and lose his business without setting him up with a dangerous lunatic (what she should have done), or set him up with the loan shark when she has to know that it is almost impossible to ever pay these guys back because of the huge interest they charge.

In the case I am describing, she is neither a prostitute nor is she even close to being a rape victim. That's even more melodramatic than the film. She is a willing player who got in over her head (after getting her brother in over his head. Her brother is also a fool for agreeing with her to go to Frank, but that is another issue). What she is, is a girl who is willing to do whatever it takes to clear her brother's debt. She knows full well that it will probably include sex with people she doesn't know. There is no veil over this. She is someone who has gotten herself into a difficult situation, and she is willing to do what it takes to clear her brother and her own conscience. She is not a victim. Suppose that instead of a girl, it's a guy who does what she does. Say that, instead of sex it's violence that is required of the guy. Does that make him a victim of some sort of "rape?" Hardly. If he complies, then he is liable as an accomplice to illegal activities. The law would probably cut him a deal, but we're talking about moral ramifications here. He has become a criminal in order to save his brother. Noble but guilty.

Another message poster said something else well: She "reads" Wayne instantly and knows he's pretty straight. She knows he is the kind of guy who will feel "wrong" about any frank exchange of sexual favors for time off of a debt. So she lays off the sex angle. She pretends that it's just like she is a "girl Friday" or something. It sounds naive but she is just sparing Wayne the embarrassment he would feel by such a bald statement of facts. Frank isn't Marlowe. She isn't a virgin being thrown into the volcano, either. In order for her to be that, she would have had to have been kidnapped and forced into prostitution against her will. She would have had to be sacrificed to greed and lust. That is not the case.

A great film to watch that has some of these same questions in it is The Cooler. Maria Bello does something similar to what Uma Thurman does. Although Bello is playing a much more seasoned character than Thurman is, and she plays the game more willingly, she is no less or more guilty than Thurman's character. Everyone has a goal and everyone is willing to do what it takes to achieve that goal. Having sex is just one form of commerce. Are they both whores? Yeah, in a way they are. They agreed to become whores without actually stipulating that that is what they are. It's all just language. All I can say is, I wish I knew a guy who knew a guy...never mind.