Criminalized Prostitution: Hypocricy?

Why are most of us morally opposed to prostitution, when most of us
would consider doing it ourselves?

I made the online test below for a laugh initially. But then the
results struck me. I was expecting that my 40% score would be one of
the highest.
But it turns that 40% is pretty much the median. That
made me think.

http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-how-much-of-a-whore-are-you-test-2

The test results show that only about 5% of the takers would never
consider prostituting themselves under any circumstances. That is a
remarkably low number, considering how taboo prostitution is in our
society.

It seems that the amount of money is a moral criterion. Selling sex
for $1 million is widely considered acceptable,but selling sex for
$1000 is considered unacceptable. But what most of us forget is that
the marginal utility of $1000 for a street prostitute might be
similar to the marginal utility of $100,000 for an upper-middle
class person. So from an individual's point of view, both have
committed an equally grave "sin" of giving in to the temptation of
money.

Why is that the absolute, rather than the subjective value defines the
social acceptability of prostitution? And why the hypocrisy?

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