Dear gst_ptr,

Here are answers to your questions:

1. Ask the provider if SHE thinks there is a mutual friendship. No one on this board can tell, only she can.

2. If you want to construe prostitution as "friends helping one another," then go ahead; however, last time I checked, it meant paying/having sex for money. Intimacy may or may not be part of the deal, but it's still sex for money. If you want to conduct a test, pay her for psychological intimacy and forego the sex. More than likely, she'll be willing....and you'll wonder if that's all there is.

Almost bordering on "fallen-and-can't-get-up territory,
The Love Goddess

It is very possible to form a mutual friendship with a woman that you pay for sex. It is not however, at least not in my opinion, an exchange of money for intimacy.  

True friends share things that go way beyond pussy and cash and intimacy does not come from sharing intercourse with a woman whether you are paying cash or not. Intimacy is born out of trust and trust CAN exist even when there is an envelope full of cash on the nightstand. You can have good sex without intimacy but true intimacy and trust in your partner, IMO, will always make it better!

Last summer I went away with my ATF for a weekend. Her fee for the two and  half days was exactly two times her normal two hour donation. The reason for her extreme generosity in giving me something that she would normally charge a couple of grand a day for (if she even trusted another client enough to spend the weekend with him)-was our friendship.  We spent a great weekend together. We talked, we tried a bunch of different restaurants, we walked on the beach, we had some amazing sex.  The only thing she was charging me for was the sex.  

So you see, the friendship can exist but it can't be tied into the sex as long as you are still paying her for it. For the friendship to be true she has to be giving you something more than her genitals and you have to be giving her something more than cash.

it is what it is but some are different however just ask her ... hopefully she will say the truth and not lead you on if your looking for more than what it is..

Dude she wants your money and without it she would not be that nice
Ask her if you can be play friends and see her reaction.