Posted on 09/29/2006 7:45:48 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Gee, I wonder if I could get a similar plea agreement......
This crap is getting old
So is the article.
Sounds like a Democrat running for public office.
Or driving a car off a bridge leaving an occupant to drown>
"Let me offer you a hypothetical: a man goes up to a prostitute and offers her $20 to fellate him. She agrees. When she unzips his pants, she discovers that his member is covered with sores and lesions from who knows what matter of diseases. Is the woman obligated to fellate the man, or does she have the right to give him back his $20 and tell him to get lost?"
Is this one of those "I've got a friend" stories, Hmmm?
You are totally out of control with your emotions!!!!!
This is a fellow freeper, respect of ideas are in order.
This to me is how the GOP majority has been for the past four years.
If a wife says no, and the husband forces himself on her, is it rape? Your opinion appears to be that it is not, because of the "social contract" for sex included in the marriage.
Using his badge and the threat of arrest to get her to frellate him is rape. Your opinion is invalid, legally.
A year in prison for forcible rape and abuse of power. Is this a great country or what? < /sarcasm >
That's not the situation we have here is it.
Sure it is. They call it "confiscation." Do you really believe that all those valuable drugs are being incinerated?
It is similar. The prostitute has an implied "duty", because of her "job", to perform sex acts. The police officer uses the threat of arrest to coerce her into performing against her will.
You have no legal basis for your opinion, sir.
It's just an opinion. I don't agree with a lot of laws. If the prostitute doesn't want to perform but does for 30 bucks is it rape? If the prostitute doesn't want to perform but does to avoid losing the next couple of tricks while processing through a legal system that really doesn't care much about prostitution in the first place is it rape? Not in my opinion. It's overhead, so to speak.
Did Bill Clinton teach you the art of spurious logic, or did you teach him?
If you don't want to go to work, but consent to do so because of that pesky paycheck thing, is it rape?
If the prostitute doesn't want to perform but does to avoid losing the next couple of tricks while processing through a legal system that really doesn't care much about prostitution in the first place is it rape?
It appears you are arguing that the definition of rape is contingent on the person being raped. Is this a correct assessment?
I wholeheartedly disagree with that opinion. Even though the prostitute is pursuing illegal activity, vending sex for money, she does not give up her right to consent or not consent to performing.
To flip this around, consider that your boss says you have to sleep with her (I assume you're a man) in order to keep your job, otherwise you will get fired and arrested. You don't want to do this, but feel like you have no choice. Is that coercion, or just overhead? Is that rape, assuming that a sex act takes place?
Not exactly. It is contingent of the fact that the person is a prostitute and freely distributes her services for money. That cheapens her and makes narrows the definition of rape.
I wholeheartedly disagree with that opinion. Even though the prostitute is pursuing illegal activity, vending sex for money, she does not give up her right to consent or not consent to performing.
Ah, consent. I hate to think of the horrible violence a cop would have to do to my wife to get sex. The thought makes me very upset and I'm not going to dwell on it or this topic. Now compare that to the trivial coersion that was necessary to get this prostitute to "consent". Please.
To flip this around, consider that your boss says you have to sleep with her (I assume you're a man) in order to keep your job, otherwise you will get fired and arrested. You don't want to do this, but feel like you have no choice. Is that coercion, or just overhead? Is that rape, assuming that a sex act takes place?
It's not rape, it's consent. If there is a weapon or greater force that I can muster it's rape, otherwise it's consent.
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