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Lisa has admitted to using and manipulating people in the past to get what she wanted. I assume this included using men. I suspect that she had relationships and sex with men who helped financially support her in return – men who she otherwise would not have dated had they not provided such financial assistance. Isn’t this essentially a form of prostitution? This is why I think Lisa has made such an attempt to distance herself from Christina and her past as a Striper/Escort. It’s as if Lisa wants to convince herself that her “use and manipulation of men” in the past is completely different from what Christina has done. I hope that Rhonda gets around to Lisa’s past relationships with men and draws a parallel.

Anyone agree?

I think that what Lisa does is morally equivalent to prostitution if not legally equivalent.

Christina runs quick scams and outright prostitution.

Lisa runs long scams -- manipulates others for her own benefit giving as little as possible in return and then terminates the relationship.

She's a con-man (con-woman), and she has probably had to use sex in her con's -- so IMHO she's like a prostitue only worse.

I could be wrong

Yes, I think worse too because she puts a more socially acceptable spin on it! Really she needs to call it what it is. I realize that many (if not most) women have some major abuse in their past....but how many use it the way Lisa does? Yes, we all have ways that we are affected, but to completely shut down, become so incredibly irresponsible and still so harsh and judgemental? She does need a serious wake-up call on what she actually is and how she views/treats others. I hope she can truly get this and not just do the "I get it!".

Lisa seems to have a morbid fascination with prostitution. She just won't shut up about it. It's almost got me windering if she's considering it as a career. She did say she could never have sex for fun. Prostitutes don't have it for fun. They have it for money. Lisa, for other things. Just another form of prostituion, really.

Okay, Lisa is a bit disconnected from reality, a prostitute is someone who gives sexual favors for money and gifts, there are plenty of women out there that are like that however Lisa is not exchanging sexual favors for gifts yet. How about those women who never have to work a day in their lives? Women who have men taking care of all of their needs for them, who have the nice cars, nice clothes and take trips all through the hard work of the man they are with. These women under the same circumstances would not know what to do if something happened to their husbands or boyfriends. The only difference between Lisa and most woman is that she is doing this to her parents and if it keeps up some poor gent will have to take over where they left off.