Yes, this what I would expect. I personally found the series quite entertaining and from reading the posts here I figured that a lot of what transpired in the series seemed close to the reality.
As for other women's attitude towards the profession they always surprised me. I never quite completely understand why so many women found escorts threatening.
Once I was talking to a female friend and she told me that she'd rather have her husband have an affair, even if it's with her best friend, then to spend time with escorts. I tried to reason that having an affair actually amounts to having a competing relationship on the side and presents a real threat to her own relationship, while seeing escorts really doesn't. In fact under many circumstances it could actually be the thing that keeps marriages together.
But she'd frown and have none of that.
There is a French joke about a woman coming home from two-week long business trip and asking her husband how many women did he sleep with while she was away. He responds: "One only". "Only one?!" she covers her mouth in dismay "I think we have a problem!"
I also remember reading that back in the day and even sometimes now, the Japanese woman would take an active part in picking a geisha for her husband.
All those things make sense to me, but I really don't understand women's harsh attitude towards the escorts. Hidden envy? No, it can't be just as simple as that. A hypocritical desire to present herself as virginous and righteous to herself as well as to the outside world (in this case myself)? Hm... Subconscious fear of something like that happening to them? Maybe. Or maybe rather a fear mixed with the magnet?
I mean I met women who would legalize heroin before prostitution! And while I'm a staunch supporter of legalization of both, I still don't understand how can one compare a real damage done by hard drugs with such a largely victimless activity.
Weird...