A
CRITICAL EVALUATION OF RAPE: LEGAL PROSTITUTION AS THE RESCUE- by ESAN
OLUWATOBI
Sex is as old as the
creation of man and can be regarded as one of the greatest or the highest level
of pleasure that men derive. Both male and female enjoy the very pleasure of
sex even amidst the price of it being painful. It is in the mist of that pain
that the pleasure lies. The theory of hedonism by Epicurus positions man to be
a pleasure seeking being, hence, man is ready to undergo any form of pain just
to get pleasure. Since sex happen to be the highest level of pleasure contextually,
the crave of sex by man is as constant as change.
The persistent nature of man to attain this great
pleasure of sex has resulted into man going to any extent to achieve this, up
to the extent of forcefully having their way on opposite partners.
Rape has been in
existence as a very grievous crime towards fellow human beings for ages. The
act of forcefully having sex with opposite partner at the detriment of their
own personal “free and conscious will” is rape. It must be noted that the
practice of rape is in multi-dimensional phases. Husband can forcefully rape their
wife; wife can rape their husband, male and female of different family
background can rape themselves respectively, rape between family members,
females raping male among others. All of this cases are bad and destroying the
prestige and dignity of man.
However, we have cases
of raping that are done via free will but yet unconscious and due to ignorance
of the victim. this cannot be overlooked, for instance, a grown up man
deceiving a young child with a sum of 500 naira just to have sex with her, in
that case that child can be regarded as been ignorant of what the man is about
doing, or a man sleeping with a 4year old girl after giving her #10, all this
are absurd and barbaric but still part of rape. This implies that not all cases
of rapes are carried out in a forceful manner.
Causes
of Rape
We have both physical
and metaphysical explanation for an act of rape, never the less we will be
picking some empirical and scientifical reasons why man perpetrate this act.
When the sexual hormones in the body over secretes,
the desire for sex will be raised and hence, if not properly managed by the
individual, it could lead to desperation and forceful diverting of the inborn hug
to the opposite sex.
It is a laudable fact
that poverty and ignorance has constituted more to the cause of rape in recent
time, when people are in quest to search for how they can survive, they come
across people with low self instinct who are ready to meet their demands, but
because of their refusal to dance to this people’s music, yet want to have
their cake, they arose the inner anger of such people who in turn forcefully
rape them, perhaps some deceive them and out of their own ignorance they fall.
Men they say are move
by what they see, hence immoral and indecent dressing by young teenagers and
youth of now a day’s calls for alarm, scientifically, when a man sees a
sensitive part of a woman, it registers in men’s memory for a long period of
time than you can imagine. The mind with its innate ability to imagine is
capable of creating some psychological image which arose the sexual hormones of
men. The result is evident.
Watching of phonographs, sexually induces videos,
pictures and lack of proper sexual education has also contributed to a
reasonable extent to the high record of rape cases that we have witnessed in
the past.
Effect
of Rape
Wanting to measure all
the effect of rape will be like wanting to count the number of sands in the
sea, suffices to say, the effect of rape ranges from psychological breakdown, hatred,
murder, suicide, lost of dignity and value among other. At this junction, it is
important to ask some critical questions.
1.
Can
the immoral practice of rape be totally stopped?
2.
Can
man stop craving for pleasure?
On the basis of these
two fundamental questions, which serve as my anti-thesis, I proffer my thesis.
If indeed Epicurus is right, then Aristotle must be right. If man is a pleasure
seeking being, then man has a great link with the animal kingdom, and we are
only a bit rational than them. It then implies that, man is a rational animal.
If man is a rational animal, then Sigmund fraud must be right about his theory
of ID, EGO and SUPER EGO.
On this note, one can
say that it will get to a point in time, when the desire for pleasure is at his
peak, and the super ego can no longer control the innate desire from within,
man will have no option than to bring out the animalistic nature in him just to
satisfy its sexual desire at that time, hence, the history of mankind and the
emergence of rape can never be separated.
Since
man is a pleasure seeking being> man can never stop craving for pleasure
If
in having sex man gets great pleasure> man can never stop having sex
If
willing woman cannot always be there for man to have sex with>rape is inevitable.
On the basis of this short argument, it means for us
to cob the rate of rape in the society their must always be women who will be
willingly available for man to satisfy their pleasure always. And since this
women cannot just give that without taking something in repay, it then lead to
a form of business which is PROSTITUTION.
Going by historical
basis, it is right to say that prostitution is an ancient business and one of
the oldest businesses so to say, aside farming and hunting. Even in religious
books, this business of prostitution still find itself there to show how old it
is. Since after the desire to eat and have good shelter, the next desire for an
average man is to crave for pleasure, hence we cannot sideline and kill this
business of prostitution in our society just as we cannot stop planting and
hunting.
It is evident that a lot of people will subscribe to
religion as a rescue for rape, but even if the whole world turn into religious
house, the whole world cannot still be free from crime and sexual immoralities
because, man was created with that desire and when it goes out of hand, no
measure can be used to restrict that animal nature in man until it satisfies
its desire. So the best rescue is to find how to cob rape.
Of a truth, we cannot
say prostitution is not totally good, yes, there are evil in it, and it pose
great threat to human existence most especially through the spread of deadly
diseases, but we must understand the very fact that even if prostitution is abolished
totally, we will still have prostitute and sexual immoralities will not stop
which is a more greater danger than prostitution being allowed itself, hence,
why not create a suitable environment for prostitution which will pose lesser
threat to the existence of man and reduce the spread of diseases. This suitable
environment for prostitution will lead to my synthesis.
Since, the thesis argues
for prostitution, then, there is a need for the government to come out with
well organized policy to make sure that prostitution is a real business duly
registered under the law, any one involve in prostitution or want to be a
prostitute should be registered with the government and must be health-wisely
fit.
For those who have
communicable and deadly disease already among the prostitute, government should
make sure they go for medical service always and restrict all prostitute from
having unprotected sex, if anyone is discovered to have an unprotected sex,
such person should be sentenced to jail term, both the prostitute and the
person who patronizes her.
Prostitute should be moved away from staying on the
street and be confined in some area as directed by the government for proper
monitoring and regular healthy checking of the prostitutes.
Any prostitute who is going for home service must
get the approval from the appropriate authority and must be tested before been
admitted back into the mist, hence people
in charge of prostitution issue must be experienced counselors who are both
rigid and flexible and must be essay to access at any point in time by the
prostitutes.
There should be a law to melt out capital punishment
for anybody involve in rape, so anybody who cannot control his sexual pressure
should find a prostitute lodge around or call for home service and pay.
On a final note a well organized and package
prostitution which is being anchored by the government is what I call LEGAL
PROSTITUTION, this I prescribe to be the logical rescue to high rate of rape in
the society.
On this note I submit by saying every synthesis can
still become an anti-thesis, hence, the only rescue that will have no further
anti-thesis is Jesus Christ. Its pays to give your life to him. I remain the VOICE
OF THE VOICELESS
LIVING LEGEND
