Rape is about over powering someone's personal space body mind feelings and so on...

I don't think is about the amount or lack of sexual gratification.

But more about the power the rapist exercises on the victim.

So no I dont think sex work will prevent anything at all.

But I do feel that sex work is therapeutic in many ways. It can be an alternative way of dealing with many issues like normal day to day stress or even more deeper things like the pain of past traumatic experiences.

Sexuality is not just an experience,but an expression of oneself, your emotions and state of mind.

Kylie

Rape is not about sex, rape is about power and control that a person have over another person.

Agree with many of the posters, I think trying to rationalize the mindset of rapists.

It's also really sad that some stats say around 40% of women in SA will be raped in their lifetime.

Is rape about sex and sexual release though? I understand it to be about dominance and violence...

If it was true than there would be statistics that show a direct correlation between the number of rapes in a country and the level of prostitution. That would be like saying South Africa who has a relatively high rate of sexual violence will be able to bring this rate down by incentivising more women to enter the industry. For a rapist there is no achievement in getting paid sex. It's about violence, aggression and other deep seated psychological issues. The best example of this is men who rape other men in prison. Those guys are not gay and do not rape to relieve themselves sexually, they are stamping down their authority on the other person in a violent sexual and humiliating manner.

Rape in essence is a violent crime with violence as the key driver.
The weapon chosen by the perpetrator to commit the violence with, tag the act as a rape.
Prostitution can not stop violence - period.

If the answer to violence was prostitution the world would be a whole different place.....

An interesting topic.
Rape isnt about sex imo.Its about violent control.
I have sat in many a conversation where people have sort of surmised that its about getting laid and these folks brought up a similar sentiment that men should go see a sexworker One time I very casualty remarked that its about violence and control and I was disgusted that people then suggested men go to a sexworker as if its okay to unleash that violence and control on a sexworker ..... As if we don't already have enough to deal with or aren't human enough so we have to cater to rapists too besides all the other dangers out there.
I have heard similar remarks made about child molesters too. Why don't they pay a sexworker? Once again it's not about sex for sex's sake.

Like everyone I understand rape to be an act of violence and power, an act of control in is most barbaric and brutal form.

I understand where this lady's sentiment stems from and why she might think sexworkers can prevent it from happening.

We as SPs get multiple requests in a year from guys that want to live out a "rape fantasy"

Some lady might agree to it as she has the same sentiment, that by saying yes she will prevent him from actually taking his "fantasy" out into the world.

I myself will never agree to it.. my agreeing to it won't stop him taking that "fantasy" into the world eventually.

It might just have the exact opposite effect.

Allowing him to visit me and "play out" that "fantasy" I might be helping him to understand his strengths when it comes to pinning a women/man down, I might be fuelling something that might have been just a sad thought and now I am giving him "substance" to build on to that . I am allowing him to feel that power rush(in a controlled setting) but it could potentially be the tip in the scale from fantasy to reality. The fact that that "fantasy" even excist in that guys mind is disturbing enough.

I will not be the "training wheels" for a potential rapist of innocent women/men.

Not a good opinion

Terrible opinion