[Red in Blue PA]

So it is open season on all prostitutes? Anything goes? Rape isn’t really rape, since at some point they will offer their services for money.

Sadly (and unbelievably) that appears to be the consensus here on FR.

Enough to make me rethink of logging in here.

[traderrob6]

“since at some point they will offer their services for money.”

More realistically at ANY point....

I don’t believe there are many hookers out their that won’t negotiate a price given the opportunity.

[Shimmer]

I can’t believe the other poster understands anything about the effect having a gun held on you, with the possibility of death at any moment, has on a person. I hope that is all it is, and not abject callousness and even stupidity. (I’m sorry to even have to wonder about that last one, but I do)

[Mrs. Don-o]

Just because she'll consent to sex with a particular person (or persons) for a particular amount of money, doesn't mean she consented to sex with these people, under these circumstances.

If you offer to let someone punch for you a $5, and then 4 people show up and beat the crap out of you, they can't get off the hook for assault and battery because one punch at $5 was already agreed upon.

While it is true that the prostitute has degraded sex into a commercial transaction, the law still does not regard it as a mere commercial transaction. Sex without explicit and particular consent is still sexual violation, each and every time.

Another analogy: say she had offered to sell one of her children for $200, and men showed up and kidnapped 4 of her children. She was gravely wrong to offer the sale, but still abducting children is not mere theft of property in the eyes of the law: it's kidnapping.