I agree that we should agree to disagree.
But I don't agree that my understanding of crimes is superficial. As a cyber forensics professional I have worked closely with LE agencies across the world and have deeper understanding of crimes than most. In fact, you are taking a myopic view of rape by equating it only with the spectacularly brutal assaults that happened in the case of Nirbhaya and Dr Priyanka Reddy. However, in reality less than 99% rapes fall in that category. Most happen in subtler forms that are often labelled conveniently by the male perpetrators as consensual sex.
Below are a few examples of the more common forms of rapes that I have seen over the past few years:
- An Arab Sheikh coming to India, marrying a young woman or minor, having sex with her and then divorcing her the next day through Triple Talaq
- A film producer fucking a woman promising her a role in movies and then not giving it
- A vigilante cop anally-raping a prostitute for breaking the law
- A politician sticking it into a woman for doing her a favor
- A boss in office favoring a girl who sleeps with him and then not delivering the promised reward
- A man fucking his widowed sister-in-law in exchange for shelter in his home
- A soldier in a war-torn country seeking a blow-job to hand over an extra food packet to a refugee woman
- A man having sex with his own wife when she is sick
- A man having sex with a woman with a promise of marriage and then reneging
- A man having sex with a woman who is drunk.
- A man having anal-sex with a woman when she is in a passed out state
- A man manipulating his way into sex with a woman leveraging a particular emotionally vulnerable state that she might be in at that stage.
- Man exploiting a woman's emotional, financial, physical dependence for sex
Rape is a complicated crime. In some of the cases mentioned above people may blame the female. In some cases the female may actually frame the man too. The people who indulge in these forms of rapes are not necessarily the scums of the earth who are involved in brutal rapes. These are men who are ordinary in nature who were looking for an outlet and an opportunity presented itself.
Easy access to Transactional sex like the one provided by brothels, strip clubs, DBs, SBs etc provide an easy outlet for people to live out their fantasies or to let of steam. That is the purpose they serve. And that is why I think they should be allowed. Legalizing them will also allow for better governance. Exploitation of minors, migrants etc can also be stopped if this is legalized. I think many countries have already done this.