"Whether that's totally accurate or a bit of an exaggeration there is some truth in it. Lets assume its totally true. Note that this is what happens in the context of prostitution being illegal in many places, including most of the US, and heavily restricted in most places where it is legal.
What is restricted? The age (12) factor, the sense of "paid rape", the suicide tendency, abuse from pimps?
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"When prostitution is illegal, prostitutes have less protection from law enforcement and the rest of society and are more likely to be abused. Also if its made legal it would be possible to take the resources (or some fraction of them, saving some money for the taxpayer) used to crack down on prostitution and use it to crack down on abuse, trafficking, etc."
When prostitution is legalized, there are still incidental conditions which constitute illegal practices ... age, violence, drug abuse, human trafficking, etc which continue to flourish.
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Rape: the most reported crime by countries in the UNCJS
Of those countries that returned the questionnaire (91) the number of rapes recorded by the police was provided more often than were statistics for any of the other major crimes of homicide, assault, robbery, theft or drug crimes.
>Several criminal activities, such as trafficking in people, have spawned lucrative cottage industries especially in forging of documents, end user certificates and the like.
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STATISTICS
• Every ninety seconds, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. (RAINN calculation based on 2000 National crime Victimization Survey. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U Department of Justice,)
• Rape is the fastest growing violent crime in the U.S.
• 1 in 3 women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime.
• 1 in 6 women report rape or attempted rape at sometime in her life.
• 1 in 4 girls will be sexually assaulted by the age of 18.
• 1 in 6 boys will be sexually assaulted by the age of 18.
• Approximately 68% of rape victims knew their assailant. 28% of victims are raped by husbands or boyfriends, 35% by acquaintances, and 5% by other relatives. 29% of female victims reported that the offender was a stranger. (US. Dept of Justice)
• 73% of those forced to have sex fail to recognize their experience as rape.
• Women aged 12-34 are at the highest risk for being sexually assaulted. Risk peaks in the late teens: girls 16-19 are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault. (2000 NCVS)
• 95% of rape victims are female.
• 70 - 80% of all sexual assaults are committed by people known by the victim.
• Women of all races are equally vulnerable to attacks by intimates.
• 1 in 7 married women are raped by their husbands.
One out of every six American women have been the victims of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (National institute of Justice and Ctrs. For Disease Control and Prevention, 1998,)
• In 1999, one in every 10 rape victims was male. (1999 NCVS)
• In 1996, only 31 % of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement officials, less than one in every three. (US. Dept of Justice)
• Only about 1 in 10 sexual assault victims reports the crime committed against them.
• FBI statistics list the false report rate for rape as only 2-5%, the same as the rate for other felonies.
• Only one percent of male students who rape are prosecuted. (US Dept of Justice)
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