I have a student examining attitudes of men to the various kinds of sex workers out there. So whether you have or haven’t engaged in this sort of thing, please contribute to this study. Please share the link on your own FaceBook pages and other networks; this will optimise the chance of our recruiting a representative sample of chaps.
https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/attitudes-sex-workers-services
I tried to do it.
Then one of the questions was so badly worded I had to bail out.
“Sex workers can be raped” – does that mean “there is a possibility that they might be raped”, or “it is OK to rape them”?
I’m not answering that until I know what I’m answering
I’ll let the student know. The proposition examines the view some people have that sex workers, by virtue of their job, cannot be raped. Otherwise you could just say “sex workers can be bald”, as of course, they CAN be. The questionnaire item is akin to the idea that no woman can be raped unless they want to be, reasoning “you can’t thread a moving needle”. (‘Scuse me: these are the sorts of issues I deal with in the day job).
I’m too nervous to fill this out.