Let's legalize prostitution now!

Since rape is NOT about sex.. but about power and control, men that are going to pull joggers off a path and rape them are going to do so whether prostituion is legal or not. They don't WANT a willing partner... the fear is what they are after and the act of overpowering is what thrills them. Legalizing prostitution is NOT going to stop rape.
 

Q.S. you are right, of course, but the idea that Prostitution is somehow a willing venture for most women is still systemic in our culture, thank you for speaking out on behalf of so many invisible, supposedly non-existent victims. Rape is a crime of violence, And has nothing whatsoever todo with prostitutes. I am so weary of the whole
Culture of blame thing. Why don't people believe women?
 
In Psychology Today Magazine: FYI

Sexual gratification or control over women?
Stranger rape takes different forms, including a political version and a sadistic version but the majority of sexual assaults are more about sexual gratification than control over women per se. But what can one say about date rape? Is this extremely common form of rape consistent with the feminist pattern of men controlling women, or does it fit more neatly within the evolutionary psychological perspective where rape is primarily a sexual crime?

The inherent conflict in date rape is not really about consent to some level of sexual intimacy because some degree of consent is implied by a woman agreeing to go out with the man. The real issue is not a difference over whether to engage in physical intimacy but rather as to the degree of intimacy and its timing.

In other words, it is not an either/or situation. Date rape is a sexual crime but it is also about who controls the interaction, an issue of great concern for feminists, and for women in general. In other words, date rape mixes up the feminist perspective on rape with the evolutionary one.
 

I'd like to point out that prostitution is practiced by males as well as females, usually for homosexual sex. Some are young boys who are desperate victims comparable to the girls. It would be nice if legalizing would solve all the issues involved in prostitution but I'm afraid it's just not that simple.
 
I am saddened that a reputable scientific magazine chooses to perpetuate the alarming stereotype that a woman agrees to a certain level of Sexual intimacy/consent merely by going out with a man? Really? I can N ame at least three psychologists a d one psychiatrist, all male, whose professional opinion of that statement is not printable on this forum. I also do not believe that any normal man could sustain an erection while attempting to rape a woman.
 
I agree that it is difficult to understand how a normal man could have an erection during a rape but the evidence for so many is that they can if one considers the massive rape of German women by Russian soldiers at the end of WW2.
 
This was a terrible period, especially in Berlin. Mothers hid their young daughters and allowed themselves to be serially raped. Manyy women committed suicide either to avoid being raped or after being raped. Stalin allowed the rapes to take place for a couple of weeks before having them stopped due to the concern of world outrage if they went on too long...
 
Sorry, probably the fault of falling asleep during English classes in my school daze...
 
Ralphy, when I was eighteen, I worked with a German lady who had been raped by the Russians. She was still traumatized decades later. She was only sixteen when it happened. Rape has always been a weapon of war.
 
Male rape victims also exist, their reaction closely resembles that of female ones, with perhaps an added layer of shock, men are not supposed to be vulnerable in that fashion, are they? Some are prostitutes, a surprising number are not. Even more surprising, by no means are all of these men interested in engaging in homosexual activity!
 
All these men? I don't think the numbers would support that many men that are interested in homosexual activity...
 
Ralphy, perhaps I should have worded things differently. '"All the men" referenced the percentage of male rape victims interested in homosexual activity, rather than the percentage of men in society who are interested in homosexual activity.
 

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