[Defiant]

So what are the damages? Their regular rate?

[MrEdd]

Likely hospital bills.

Generally most rapes of prostitutes are violent offenders looking for someone to hurt who can’t just go to the cops. Ergot, find someone also in crime. A prostitute. A bookie. A drug dealer.

Yes all of those are doing something wrong. Doesn’t make rape less violent. And with someone who wants just to hurt somebody else well, when the clothes come off they know they aren’t armed.

Another factor in the rape of prostitutes is people with obvious physiological conditions that can be seen when they disrobe. The clothes come off and there are the running sores or scabs or track marks. Of course the prostitutes try to back out.

There are a lot of other factors in play, but those are several of the big ones.

They need help getting out of the life they are in, but raping them is not okay.

There are two prostitutes in the genealogy of Christ, and God chose who would be in that number. Doesn’t make them sinless, but it does tell who God came to redeem.

Did you want an answer with some thought to it, or did you just desire to imply that the people who rape prostitutes aren’t really doing anything wrong?

[Defiant]

I was being facetious, not condoning prostitute rape. You are entirely too solemn in your daily life. Relax a little, Francis.

I was making note of the situation that raping a prostitute is simply forcing someone to perform their profession for free, like pointing a gun at a mechanic and forcing him to clean your carburetor. You posit violence and injury to the victim. That is a different matter, not included in what a prostitute normally does. I didn't suggest that a person who has been injured should not be compensated or should not be protected.