"Being forced to have sex with people you don't want to for money, and being forced to have sex with people you don't want to because they'll hurt you, I don't see the difference. You're still being forced to have sex by whatever circumstance you find yourself in...

Also, don't ******* condescend to me, I am a law student, I've studied law in two major legal systems, this isn't a legal argument."

"Straw Man logic at it's finest. Well done."

"And don't accuse me of being condescending just because I don't agree with you. I don't care whether you're a law student, the truth is that the law doesn't recognize prostitution as rape and as a law student I'm sure you know that. I wasn't trying to say that this is a legal issue, I was trying to make a comparison.

The law recognizes all sorts of things as rape, or at least as sexual assault, even things that you wouldn't automatically expect to be so classified. Prostitution is not one of them. This says that the powers that be recognize the difference between someone being forced and someone doing something by choice. Likewise they recognize the difference between external and internal coercion. One is rape the other isn't, and you insisting otherwise isn't going to change that."

"Do you even know what a strawman argument is?

I applied the logic you used on my example to your own assertions, that's not a strawman argument at all."

"If rape is the act of coerced sex, then prostitution is rape.
Not legally speaking, but ethically speaking."

"I just want everyone to know a man was charged with rape no too long ago for continually asking his tenant (he was her landlord) to have sex with him, after saying no many times, she felt he was going to hurt her, so she did.

According to Canadian law, they consider that rape, seems to fit this situation, it may not be prostitution but the idea still applies."

"Yes, because there was coercion or implied coercion involved. He kept coming on to her and she felt threatened. No argument there.

Had she been the one coming on to him, however, then she wouldn't have been able to charge him.

Likewise, she wouldn't have been able to charge him if he had been coming on to her, and if she had said, entirely of her own volition, "well, he's hot so sure I'll bang him." (Well, she could have lied after the fact and said he forced her, but that could happen in any situation.)"

"My point was just because someone says yes doesn't mean there isn't coercion involved"

"I disagree, harassment is not the same and anyone who has ever been raped would agree here."

"The implied coercion was not in the harassment, but in that she feared physical harm, if that's what you were referring to."