Totem wrote:
Ok, let me attempt to make myself clearer here, Eske and Bhodi. Due to her chosen profession I believe the rape charge is less a matter of forced or unconsensual sex as much as it is a question of price. Given what a hooker does for a living it is not whether she does or does not, or even if she will or will not, but how much will she earn for doing so. To say otherwise belies her choice of career.
Totem
This is where you are missing the point. It IS a matter of consent--it simply means that for someone who is ALLEGEDLY a prostitute (and you've provided no actual proof that she WAS, merely insinuation about her sexual habits) consent has a price-tag attached, yes, but it STILL comes down to whether or not she consented.
Let's say I wanted to rent your computer, since that's what you admit to whoring yourself out on. I offer you a fee, you accept the fee. I then can claim your computer under the agreed-upon parameters that were negotiated with the fee. If you change your mind and give me back my fee, I can no longer have your computer and taking it is a crime. The fact that you were willing to rent it to me in the first place has no bearing on the matter--you changed your mind and either didn't accept or returned my money, ergo the computer is not mine and no amount of legal double-talk will excuse my using it without your permission.
For a hooker, willingly accepting a "fee" equates to consent to have sex, yes--however, she can still rescind that agreement, return the money, and the guys are entitled to squat when she does so, and having sex with her after she does so is a crime. It doesn't matter if she was willing to sell it to them previously--if she changes her mind and says no, it's rape.
There is no "muddy water" here except in the minds of someone who wants a reason to excuse a rape because the woman somehow "had it coming" by virtue of not being the kind of person of whom they approve. If there's consent, it's not rape. If there's not consent, it is. Even if that consent has a price tag attached,
IT'S STILL RAPE IF THAT CONSENT IS SUBSEQUENTLY WITHDRAWN. It's that clear-cut. I highly suspect that if she had been a white stripper, you 1) wouldn't be so insistent that she was also a prostitute, and 2) would be more willing to acknowledge that regardless of her profession, it IS still rape if she is forced to have sex against her will.