maybe because the alternative is not having a fucking place to live??
‘Sex for rent’ is illegal in the UK. Why are thousands of people still affected?
Submitted 18 hours ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
having a fucking place
like… that’s the problem… <takes a big bong rip> like, yeah…
sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Because as long as the risk of coercion isn’t higher than the risk of homelessness, creeps will continue to do it because odds are in their favour. If you are in that precarious of a situation, and ending up on the streets in the cold and the rain is a larger possibility than the creep who exploits that precariousness to “get some” who might only get a slap on the wrist or dismissed in the courts as a possible outcome, this becomes the most probable outcome.
Most would say… call the police and ask them to listen in to these creeps “negotiating” their chances of sex after iniatially proposing them. No recording. Direct line and called in as distress in the form of coercion.
I agree, but… most people are still afraid of what people who are capable of these heinous propositions are still capable of doing to them after being exposed. Fear of retaliation. Added to the the fact that they’re still not gonna know where they’re gonna live.
Yes, this requires much more attention. And not just in the UK. Everywhere.
But I also need to say this… if nobody is under coercion, I have zero problems to the agreements that people come to on their own terms. It’s a tough and shitty world out there, and I’m not gonna shame anyone for making offers to get by or to get a roof over their heads. If both parties have no issue, neither do I.
But if there’s coercion. That’s the same as rape. Plain and simple.
If not, have fun and no need to bother anyone.
tal@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/Prostitution_in_the_United_Kin…
In Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), the act of engaging in prostitution or exchanging various sexual services for money is legal
Given that sex for money is legal in the UK, and money for rent is also legal, you’d think that there’d be some middleman.
yakko@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
“Capitalism breeds innovation”.
The innovation:
LodeMike@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
Because laws need enforcement to mean anything
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
The police are too busy arresting Disabled Grannies Against Genocide to enforce any laws.
FishFace@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
And exploitation works because there is an incentive for the exploited person to be exploited. Who’s going to report the situation when it will make life hard? Even if there are protections, you can’t be sure you won’t be homeless for some time. You’ll at least have to move house, which is a major upheaval.
barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 hours ago
Something that the article misses imo is that people who are desperate for a place to live would rather engage in non-consensual sex work to get/keep a place than report the landlord to the cops because then they get evicted and have to find another place to live. This could be largely solved by liquidating the landlord class, enacting rent caps, increasing public housing, etc, but those are of course all evil communist measures that would infringe on the rights of the landlord to do whatever they want.