Can a Prostitute Be Raped? [View All]

I'm serious here.

Can a prostitute be raped? By many people's standards, I guess not.

I ask this simply because of the hypocritical "outrage" by many (mostly men) that the alleged victim in the Kobe Bryant case in Colorado may have actually had sex just before being with Kobe...and with different men. So what!

None of us knows what truly happened there yet. I am willing to wait and see what a trial may reveal.

But just because a woman has had sex with someone other than the person she accuses of rape is really no one else's business.

Following such ill logic, a prostitute could never seek justice in an American court after being raped, for after all, she could have had sex with other "different men" in the same time period as her rape. We had all be very careful that we don't accept such a dangerous concept.

Perhaps Kobe's attorney has some viable evidence and I'm willing to keep an open mind, but the comment that was thrown out gratuitously last Friday about the alleged victim having had "sex with three different men in three days" was outrageous and shameful. I can not see how that comment could possibly help Kobe.

(Note: This is a repost from an earlier thread which was appropriately locked as I should have used quotation marks to illustrate my sarcasm with a certain ugly term.)

Also, since I am reposting, I would like to ask, the following: Can a married mom be raped, if besides the semen from the rapist there is found in her undergarments the semen from her own husband? This is sort of the polar opposite extension of the same question where a prostitute is used in the example. The answer in both incidences is: of course, she can be raped.

The judge should have thrown the book at Kobe's attorney to make certain that women in this country need never be worried about having sex with any man, including their own husbands, for fear that it may be later used against them. This is a very scary concept and it seems to me that it is a point that is truly being missed.

Out here in Los Angeles, we have a certain Tom Likus who rails against all women to his mostly young male audience. He, of course, is the one who outed the accuser by name. His insisting that Kobe's attorney did the right thing is really sending a very, very bad message and there doesn't seem to be any challenge to this whatsoever.

Can a prostitute be raped? Can a wife be raped? Of course, but if semen from another man is enough to discredit her in a court room, where are we as a people?