If the increased availability of consensual sex decreases rape, this would indicate that there is a significant amount of rapists that didn’t commit rape because of ill fantasies/desires for non-consensual intercourse, but simply because they couldn’t get some.
Ergo: people we would consider healthy may be potential rapists.
Usually we don't consider that you can retract consent after the act. So I don't think so a priori, but I'm not an expert. That would be a situation where the police could help, particularly if the sex worker used exclusively digital payments.
The entire point of this post is *legal* prostitution. In developed countries where it's legal, women are protected and made sure to work in safe environments with proper working conditions. Not working out of some back alley at Colfax Point.
But this is upside-down! If legalization of prostitution makes it easier for prostitutes to go report sexual assaults, the numbers should go upafter legalization.
EDIT: The point would work if you’d say legalization of prostitution takes sex-workers off the streets and into brothels => less potential victims. Or the victims are less appealing (tho I would doubt that the latter is of concern for a rapist…)
Why would that be true? If you are a potential rapist, and before your victims couldnt go to the police but now they CAN, would that not be the deterrent that drops rape rates?
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u/Kai25552 The Great P.P. Group Mar 01 '23
If the increased availability of consensual sex decreases rape, this would indicate that there is a significant amount of rapists that didn’t commit rape because of ill fantasies/desires for non-consensual intercourse, but simply because they couldn’t get some.
Ergo: people we would consider healthy may be potential rapists.