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Sloppy Seconds: Prostitution Is Now Rape in the U.K.?

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

The Frisky points us to a study that determined that Playboy Playmates get "older, heavier, and taller" in these, um, lean times.

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Our hero of the day: a woman was robbed of the purse containing her green card. At the risk of great personal safety, she did what again?

A feisty Harlem woman turned the tables on three subway muggers, chasing down two of the thugs while snatching back her purse - because it had her green card in it, cops said yesterday. 

As she continued to grab at the muggers, they decided they had enough. One of them begged Conde to let go of his accomplice.

"Leave him alone!" the thug cried out. "He's my friend!"

The gang gave up and ran away, leaving the purse on the ground. [NY Post]

Speaking of dumb robbers, this guy may be the dumbest ever: he robbed a convenience store, his stolen getaway vehicle broke down, and the taxi took him right back to where he started, where he was promptly arrested.

If you have sex with a prostitute who was human trafficked to the U.K., you could be charged with rape under a new law. Quite rightly: if a guy knows a hooker is being held against her will, he should do serious hard time. Didn't you guys ever see Lilya-4-Ever?

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Feminasty said:

"If you have sex with a prostitute who was human trafficked to the U.K., you could be charged with rape under a new law. Quite rightly: if a guy knows a hooker is being held against her will, he should do serious hard time. Didn't you guys ever see Lilya-4-Ever?"

While a guy _knowingly_ having sex with a trafficked prostitute is certainly worthy of receiving hard time--or worse--this law could be really, really bad overall for trafficked sex workers in the UK. After all, if in retrospect a guy suspects something is less-than-kosher about the pro that he visited, he would probably be less inclined to report it to the authorities for fears that he could be arrested for having sex with her at all. Even if he didn't realize it at the time. That's no good.

If only lawmakers everywhere would get their heads out of their asses and stop criminalizing sex work and start focusing their resources on stopping human trafficking, we'd all be better off.

November 19, 2008 9:05 PM

JCF said:

Note that UK law also makes it a crime for guys to have sex with pimped or trafficked hookers, even if the guy didn't know she was pimped or trafficked.  Good luck proving a negative!

November 20, 2008 8:37 AM

Peter said:

Actually, you’re wrong about the change in the law in the UK.

Although the stated intention is to help trafficked women, the law is framed such that any man who has sex with a woman who is being ‘controlled for gain’ might be charged with rape.

The phrase ‘controlled for gain’ has conveniently not been defined and the framers of this law have admitted that is could cover anybody who shares the money from their activity with a manager or premises owner or even a maid or bodyguard.

So in effect, they are creating a law wherein anybody who visits a sex worker cannot actually tell if they are breaking the law or not (and consequently if they are, in the eyes of the law, a rapist or not).

This is why there is a great deal of opposition to this law in the UK, not least from representatives of sex workers themselves.

November 20, 2008 8:47 AM

solstice2005 said:

Isn't the changing size of the Playmates the equivalent of adjusting your screen font size to compensate for failing eye sight with old age?

November 20, 2008 10:41 AM

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