Reply #65: It may be a sad comentary on the human condition, but...

[TheMadMonk]

to at least some extent the first two are are contrubutory factors. However, they are IN NO WAY excuses for rape.

Any sex industry worker who operates without proper security arangements is taking a huge risk. They many not be "asking for it" in the sense that the phrase is often used to defend the indefensible. However, placing themselves in positions of great risk (and I susspect that working for sporting teams comes close to topping the list) without adequate protections is essentially contributory negligence. It does not make what was (or is) done to the victim any less wrong, but it does help explain how they came to be victims. This is not a judgemnt on the profession, simply on the unsafe way it is sometimes (often?) practiced.

One might not blame a person who wanders the darkest paths of Central Park wearing Armani and Gucci whilst talking on a $1000 cell phone for being mugged, however, virually everyone would agree with anyone who commented on their idiocy. Yet anyone who dares make similar comments about a rape victim are somehow themselves "asking for it" and deserve all the flack that flies their way.


Rape is a horrible, horrible act. So horrible that surely it behooves those who are at greatest risk to take every reasonable precaution to avoid becoming vitims themselves.

It is another sad comentary on the human condition, that victims who place themselves in positions of risk, dilute the defences of victims who contributed not at all to their assaults.