| Brian mike |
08-02-2017 09:41 AM |
Sexual Consent in Seattle Must Involve Element of 'Leisure,' Claims Top Cop
In Seattle, sex must be a "leisure activity" for both parties or it's nonconsensual, according to one area prosecutor. In a splashy Seattle Times feature in which local law enforcement play hero protagonists, Val Richey?a senior deputy prosecuting attorney for King County, Washington, and one of the driving forces behind the area's anti-prostitution efforts?lays out his tortuous framework for treating all sex workers as victims of rape and, in this case, human trafficking.
"What you have is someone paying this person essentially to turn a 'no' into a 'yes,'" Richey told the paper. "Because as several of the buyers...observed, these women, as a leisure activity, are not looking to have sex with 10 guys in a day. They're doing it for the money."
By that logic, anyone who wouldn't perform their job without remuneration is a victim of labor trafficking!
But Richey is "adamant," as the Times tells it, that what Korean sex workers in the area "were doing could not be called consensual because they were being paid."
Alas, this is one of the folks who decide what offenses the county decides to prosecute and how those cases proceed. Richey was integral to the 2016 shutdown of a Seattle sex work forum called The Review Board, and along with it several "brothels" that primarily employed Korean women.
READ MORE : https://reason.com/blog/2017/07/31/s...t-must-involve |
