What if the prostitute gets pregnant?

Hypothetical situation: A man travels to a legal brothel and pays for intercourse with a legal prostitute. The birth control being used fails and the prostitute gets pregnant. She decides to keep the child.

Question: should the customer (father) be responsible for child support in this scenario? It was a completely above board, legal transaction that should have been completely "no strings attached" (and was advertised as such) so should he be financially responsible for the tools of her trade not working properly? Or should he be responsible financially since they were two consenting adults, having sex, knowing that even with protection in place there is always the possibility of conceiving a child?

What if the prostitute gets pregnant?
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I enjoyed reading the responses. For those suggesting there is no way to narrow in on the father, genetics have come way too far for that to be an actual argument. Relative DNA searches are a common way of determining the sperm donner. If think the question becomes the legality of the donner become liable. I'd think that the decisions of the prostitute and John become irrelevant and the question become liability to the child.
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  • Unless it would be a really high end brothel. I couldn’t imagine any records of clientele being kept. But I am sure that if you wanted to take financial credit for the pregnancy. She would accept the offer.

  • Should she then be able to abort?

  • if prostitution is legal, then the guy is not responsable, if its illegal then the guy is responsable

  • Guess you should have done anal

  • You bring up several issues that would have to be decided by the Supreme Court.

    Now your mission, if you choose to accept it (women can’t choose some places) I want you to go to a brothel and have a great time.

    Don’t worry about this nonsense.

  • They have the baby or an abortion.

  • Problem for prostitute, not on BC, no problem for the customer

  • If anything they abort their babies.