I think the lines blur between situations.
[QUOTE=CodeName47;2729978]I call them working girls if I pay as cash in any form, except genuine transportation in their own currency and in reasonably close to a cab fare. I dated girls who are still in a job and genuinely into it in both various countries. Some people have the desire to cheat themselves as f%$king pros and pretend a girlfriend.[/QUOTE]So, if I am living with a poor pinay from the province, and she is my one and only girl. I slip her a few thousand pesos each week to help with her family. She's 19, never been outside of her berg, and her only previous boyfriend was pinoy and never had 2 pesos to rub together. Will she stay with me if I don't give? Probably not. Is she a working girl?
A somewhat different example. In my home country I dated (monogomy). She spent more than one night per week at my place. I routinely filled her vehicle with gas (way before it was $6 / gallon). Gave her a few gifts. Bought her clothes several times (including a work outfit she had to have, but didn't have money for it at the time). Gave her mom flowers. Helped her pay her car insurance more than once. Her fam was lower-middle class. Didn't really give her cash. Was she a working girl?
If one gets married, he typically gives LOTS of money (in various forms) to his wife. A lot more than he would be giving to a girl he's dating, or to hookers. Are married men cheating themselves regarding their wives being working girls? If a girl I am dating and giving money to is a working girl, then I marry her, does her status change from working girl, to wife?
I think these are good questions. I am not sure there is a solid answer there. The differences between working girl, a pro, regular gals, and so forth are in degrees, not a solid line between them. In addition, people of different cultures can have differing opinions about the matter. For instance in the first example above where I was giving the pinay some money each week for the family. In the culture here, it is expected. The family would (justly) pull the girl from the boyfie if he suddenly cut off the money without good reason. Suggesting to her or her fam that she is a working girl would cause tears and pain (including mine, possibly).
In the second example, the girl in my country. Giving her money would clearly put her in the working girl category. To avoid that, it is given in the form of gifts, often times quietly (nobody will know that I gassed her car, or made a payment of some kind for her).
Location, location, location.