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Originally Posted by walkdontwalk
The idiot minister who said that it would reduce the number of rates has his head up his ass, though - rape isn't about sex, it's about power and violence. Prostitutes aren't the ones being raped - it's the average jane who gets robbed in her house (usually it's robbed, raped and strangled - triple threat).
I live in SA, and believe me when I say that we have one of the highest rape rates in the world, and it has NOTHING to do with there not being enough prostitutes walking the streets...
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While I won't dispute that SA is the Rape Capital of the World, I do believe that rape is more than just about power and violence. There is a huge sexual component to it.
I believe it was Camillia Paglia who made the arguement that rape is a crime of sex and not a crime of power. I tend to agree.
A hard up man can be a dangerous thing in many cases.
I believe that it's more comfortable for people (and men in particular) to say that rape is about power and or violence then to admit to themselves that it's about sex because to say that it is about sex means that any man is a potential rapist (which simply isn't true).
But getting back to the topic at hand, Prostitution in Canada is already legal, but only in the form of an outcall (call girl) where you call up the Sex Worker and make arrangements for her to come to your hotel or your home. Street walking and brothels are still very much illegal.
Unfortunately, when most people (and in reading these posts, I would say a great many posters here) think of prositutes, they think of a girl standing on a street corner hustling guys walking or driving down the streets. (This may have been true 20 years ago, but now a days, there are few if any street walkers that I see hanging out in the streets.)
I have no problem with call girls, or even brothels. I would draw the line at Street Walkers however.
As to regulation, I'd want the police to ensure that all sex workers are over the age of 18, not being forced into it, and have a license.