Ok here’s a weird one but it does count as a shower thought because it was a realization I woke with today out of nowhere. (long read)
Yesterday I had wikid a list of things that made headlines around the world and one was a gangrape on a bus in india. I had also just removed all the men from the game I’m making because looking at them was stressing me (yes im a weak person like ‘scared to walk alone on a street at night’ type). So today I woke up with an interesting thought. “if anyone could have sex whenever they wanted, I bet there would be waaay less scary predators”.
I started by googling comparisons of rape and prostitution and sure enough “Liberalizing prostitution leads to a significant decrease in rape rates, while prohibiting it leads to a significant increase.” Tho I would also go further and say the women I know that go around having tons of sex and ‘dirtily’ calling themselves ‘sluts’ shouldn’t have to have that dirty connotation. Thus Temple Prostitutes. Return to the waaaay old days where a woman could have tons of sex and be seen as sacred for it instead of dirty. I personally would fund it via the state so there are no barriers. I BELIEVE (since i woke up totally thinking all this today it must be true) that there will be waaaaay less of those horribly horny men we all see online doing awkward facepalm things, and the legitimate fear of being violently raped going away will help tons of people and maybe even let me add male characters to my game. It’s like lots of ppl currently are being starved sexually with playing the social game being their one avenue to solving it… or to use force. I think that’s wrong. I see the bad effects. And suddenly I know the superanswer, which is Temple Prostitutes.
That sounds all well and good until you realise that “temple prostitutes” are people, and by taking away their agency to say “no”, they are now being raped.
Maybe “temple fleshlights” :D
Even if temple prostitutes were completely voluntary, it still wouldn’t solve these underlying issues. When discussing rape with rapists, it isn’t about sex, it is about raping someone. Sex isn’t going to sate the urge to commit the act of rape. Are there people out there that may not have raped someone if they had access to sex? Sure, but those are edge cases. Also I think OP is misidentifying the lashing out of horny men, like incels, to be about sex alone. Sure, it may put a bandaid on the situation, for them, for a bit. However, the underlying issue is that they are lonely, have no intimate companionship, and have to no access to that form of relationship. Getting their dicks wet might cool them off a bit, but there will still be these communities of angry, dejected, men who do not have that type of relationship.
