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Wealthy men in politics or entertainment won't want to be seen in public with an escort, but I wonder if things would change if prostitution was legal? We normalize it but the reality is that its still very taboo in Canada.

No, it's never going to change. It has nothing to do with legality.

It's a social status thing. Men who have sex with attractive women without paying are seen by other men as having a higher status than those who pay for sex.

That doesn't mean that high-status men never pay for sex. However, there's a significant difference between hiring an escort for an hour of private intimacy in the bedroom and taking an escort out for social outings. The later is seen as low value, and will be looked down upon by other men. 

Cities like Vancouver are relatively small. Ive been out with friends many times and we have seen men out with women who are known to be escorts, and those guys are viewed as losers, they even will get disrespected by other guys publicly sometimes.