Young women are heavily targeted by sex-for-rent arrangements, and so are economically marginalised men.
    • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      20 days 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.

    • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
      111·
      20 days ago

      The police are too busy arresting Disabled Grannies Against Genocide to enforce any laws.

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    20 days 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 social housing (perhaps confiscate some properties of the royals and convert them), etc, but those are of course all evil communist measures that would infringe on the rights of the landlord to do whatever they want.

  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialEnglish
    15·
    20 days ago

    Because as long as the risk of coercion isn’t higher than the risk of homelessness in that situation, 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.