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Why not? Everyone is protected under the law. If a drug deal goes bad and the dealer gets shot and dies on the way to the hospital, then the police will handle the situation as a murder. It doesn't matter if something illegal was taking place to cause the murder. It's still a murder.

Sure it is, Here'sJonny. But like using a double negative, raping a prostitute cancels the other out. C'mon, you can't tell me you truly believe that a hooker is traumatized by the act of sex?

Each of you appalled at this alleged crime are viweing it through your own eyes and experiences. Unless you are a prostitiute, your sexual experiences, good or bad, do not match what she does for a living. Casual, impersonal, rough, viscious, multiple partner sex is her stock in trade. Soft, intimate, loving moments are not what she plies unless that is what the customer is paying for.

The funny thing is, she is actually ******** entire community-- nay, the nation! -- and each of you are being raped, yet you don't recognise it. She has manipulated you into believing something which she is not: A good person.

Totem

No, kalaria, I am saying no man has the right to rape if a "normal" woman looks or dresses like she's asking for it. Normal as in what I would hope you are or as, say, FleaJo, DSD, Katie, etc. However, if you take up the profession of exposing your body, go into a private residence without security dressed to sexually excite, and then proceed to behave in a way that heightens those emotions, you surely must have a reasonable expectation to have sex that night. To not do so is foolish. Even moreso considering she is implicitly a hooker. It is what she does for a living.

What is at issue here was her price.

Decrying that traveling through a dark alley in a bad part of town unmolested is your right does not change the fact that by doing so alone and with no means of protecting yourself is, yes, asking for it. Just as much as saying stepping off the crosswalk with a truck bearing down on you at speed is your right, even though it is readily apparent to everybody else that doing so is a life-threatening action.

If it was rape, why is she surprised that it happened? And if she is not surprised, then why was she there in the first place? The simple answer is is because she was there for the sex.

Totem

Your logic relies on a lot of 'implicit' presumptions which do not (or at least, should not) stand up in a court of law in any civilized country. Fenderputy brought up a good analogy about the murder of a drug-dealer. That's a pretty good point of reference, I'd say.

A prostitute is not "paid for people to rape her". With that debunked, your argument doesn't make sense.

Edited, Tue Apr 18 15:24:21 2006 by Eske

Show me a court in this land that would take to trial, much less convict someone (other than the cops) of stealing drugs from a drug dealer.

Totem

Drugs are illegal in of themselves. Sexual intercourse is not.

You can argue that prostitution is akin to drug dealing but the comparison falls apart when you try to find something to compare the illegal drugs to.

Paid sexual intercourse is illegal.

Totem

Except in Nevada.

Totem

Rape is forcing someone to have sex you, against their will. Like I said before, based on the info and like you and some other people said, it looks like she was there for more than dancing. She didn't have any protection with her to handle a situation if it got out of hand. Im my opinion I think she was there maybe looking to make a few extra bucks and stuff got out of hand, so she played the race card.

If that is the case her bad decision had it consequence, but still doesn't excuse the act of rape, if it happened. To call all strippers hookers is generalizing, yeah I would say a lot of them get caught up in that, but it shouldn't define all of them.



Edited, Tue Apr 18 15:37:10 2006 by kalaria

A brick of cocaine here in the US is a drug deal. There is no possible exculpatory reason to own a brick of cocaine.

Totem

Thats why I believe she played the race card. She was there under questionable circumstances, so it looks bad for her in long run.

Good crack is just like crack.

Doesn't matter because she was getting paid, right?