What would Kant think of prostitution? To present the issue of prostitution, defined as “the practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with another for payment,” would not be to live one's life in accordance with Kant's beliefs. In Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant argued that rational beings can never be treated simply as a means to an end, but must always also be treated as an end itself. In prostitution, men use women as a simple means to achieve their ends, to obtain sensual pleasure, but it is also true that women accept being used as a means to achieve their ends, to gain money. Maxime All students will prostitute themselves to pay tuition fees. In a hypothetical world with the universalized maxim that all students must prostitute themselves to pay tuition, this would be a contradiction of will. The world would be possible, but wanting it to be possible would be a contradiction in an individual's own will. As Kant says: “This maxim lacks moral content and one would not be prohibited from participating in it in order to continue one's studies....