Originally Posted by
Obnoxious
Not really.
A product is in fact an object, while a service may or may not result in a product/object. If you're a baker, baking is the service you're selling, while the finished bread is the object. If you're a physician, you're offering a service based on your study and skills, but you can't really say you're selling "better health" as your product.
An escort might provide company, sexual gratification, emotional relief or whatever you're looking for, none of which can really be called a "product." They are simply offering a service. The objectification might happen in the mind of who's buying or the people who judge the service, in a way comparable to what happens with people who treat a waiter as just a step before eating, instead of a person offering a service.
The whole "objectification" thing has roots in the whole feminist movement. Which is rather ironic, if you think about it: if the women selling the service don't consider themselves objects, the ones doing the objectification are instead those who point fingers, who treat them as objects being used, instead of full people capable of taking decisions and making choices by themselves.