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Multiple sex offender to be released from prison given access to sex workers in an attempt to rehabilitate

63 replies

Grimbles · 09/07/2019 12:32

This is... I'm just lost for words to be honest...

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HeyDuggeesCakeBadge · 09/07/2019 13:10

What in the fresh hell is this? I can't even... No, no words.

Dangerfloof · 09/07/2019 13:09

Sweet jesus, this is beyond parody. How in the entire world can anyone think this is a "good idea"
So the prostitute that says no? Hows that gonna go down with an entitled man? And he understands that its boredom that leads to him raping. Oh my God.

DuMondeB · 09/07/2019 13:04

And if those ‘sex workers’ decide they don’t want to accept him as a client, then what?

Will his ‘rudimentary understanding of the concept of consent’ keep them safe?

Fucks sake.

sakura184 · 09/07/2019 13:04

In other words every time a man visits a prostitute he's paying for a farcical notion of consent

sakura184 · 09/07/2019 13:02

It's generally understood that prostitutes can't be raped because a lot of men say that it's better if there are prostitutes available in society so that real women don't get raped.
There is no consent in prostitution, it's paid rape.

Yeahnahyeah · 09/07/2019 12:58

Those poor poor sex workers.

MagneticSingularity · 09/07/2019 12:56

So let me see if I can work my way through this so it makes any kind of sense. This man, unable/unwilling to get consensual sex, had the option of paying for sex from sex-workers before he went to prison? Right? Instead he chose to commit sex crimes on non-consensual women.

Now, they’re releasing him with a ‘rudimentary understanding of the concept of consent’ because they’re sure access to sex-workers now While it won’t resolve his proclivities toward sexually assaulting women it will - what? - take the edge off or something.

Nope, no kind of fucking sense made there. Wtf am I reading?

stillathing · 09/07/2019 12:46

If the consensus is that men cannot control themselves. That rape is not about power but instead about the natural sexual urges of men..... then why the fuck do we not seriously consider curtailing the freedom of all men?

SonicVersusGynaephobia · 09/07/2019 12:40

(even if it's not in the UK, I don't have anymore faith in ours that this wouldn't/couldn't happen here)

SonicVersusGynaephobia · 09/07/2019 12:40

Jesus fucking Christ.

Just when I think the judicial system can't sink any lower.

RubberTreePlant · 09/07/2019 12:38

Jeez..

Melioration · 09/07/2019 12:37
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Grimbles · 09/07/2019 12:35

Sorry, forgot the link:

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/09/sex-offender-released-from-wa-prison-and-given-conditional-access-to-prostitutes

“Access to sex workers will not of itself resolve the issue of the respondent’s ability to manage his sexual urges ... [but] the option for the respondent to engage in regular, albeit infrequent, sexual contact should serve as an additional protective factor.”

Yeah, let's make sure he can still have his needs met

"He has gained a rudimentary understanding of the concept of consent."

Ah well, theres no issue then

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