How so? Because a prostitute or call girl is paid to pleasure men or allow them to use her for their pleasure, and that's something I cannot see Selina allowing to happen to her.
All right. Please excuse me for being hazy and rambling today, but I feel like jumping in on this. While in a lot of ways I agree that Domme-on-the-side is probably the BEST way to view what Selina was doing in the year-one era, Miller's text aside, (Though you can read it around the cracks), while I do think it fits her personality to be a sometime pro-domme and a cat-burglar in the making, other forms of sex work shouldn't necessarily be interpreted that way. And really, there is nothing in Miller's take besides MILLER'S WRITING THIS to indicate she's anything besides a pro-domme. But even if she was? Whatever your own views on sex work that involves "actual sex", that sex workers are paid to "be used" while pro-dommes are taking on another role is problematic. Pro-dommes are being paid to pleasure by those who want that service just as other sex workers are. Sex workers are individual human beings, and many of them, ALL of them that I know personally? Do see their work in far more independent terms. It's a complicated topic in feminism, but I think it's important to add that sex work need not, I strongly think SHOULD not be viewed as the users and the used in such a manner. And I don't think I'd necessarily put that out of Selina's purview. And even not as work she'd actually see as cat and mouse in just that manner... BUT! That's me, that's my view of and my personal knowledge of many sex workers as very independent, intelligent women who are fetishized, dealt with as victims even when they don't see themselves that way, treated as all sorts of things but rarely as just human beings, who have a job like everybody else. It's not something I really want out there and want to be seen dealt with in the hands of a typical fetishizing comic writer.
And in fact that's what really bothers me about the Cooke take. That she was ashamed, that she felt being a pro-domme was all beneath her DIGNITY. (And a big strong man took her out of it!) She could easily see it as the same cat and mouse game, and it COULD be viewed that way. But I'd say avoid it and keep it out of the hands of comic writers, because god it's been a forest of various wrong. ;)