It is undeniable that in recent times, we’ve, very deplorably, witnessed incidents of rape and violence towards women. This is evident when one opens any daily newspaper on any day of the week. There are reports of rape, gang-rape, molestation and torture reports, domestic violence that includes sexual assaults and the likes. In some parts of the country or in other we see them taking place on a daily basis. This can’t continue for long.
Recently, we saw a particularly heart breaking incident where a father committed suicide along with his raped daughter because he couldn’t lodge a case in the local police station. In a more recent mishap, two university girls were raped by their ‘friends’ in a party thrown in a hotel in Banani. Rape seems to be an epidemic now in today’s Bangladeshi society.
The resulting procedures to seek justice for these crimes are murky, time consuming, cumbersome and expensive. Plus, there are physical and psychological traumas involved for the victim in wanting to go through such detailed and often illogical processes of filing a case, doing medical examination and finally facing a disapproving society which, very interestingly, doesn’t seem to accept the fact that rape is like any other social offense and it doesn’t necessitate the victim to lead a life of a social outcast. But as ‘prevention is better than cure’, we might think of ideas to try to prevent, or at least drastically reduce the likelihood of, our girls being raped.
How about setting up ubiquitous brothels all over the country? This would ensure employment of girls who might be interested in taking this up as a profession, a lucrative one, as well as guarantee satisfaction of sexually aroused men who simply have no other means of satisfying their physical need. Such customers would pay at a standard rate and buy sex just as they buy any other commodity.
Such brothels might be established in each area and they would sell sex just as a grocery store sells bottles of water or a bar of chocolate. The objective of such arrangement would be to leave no man sexually unsatisfied on the roads so that they don’t pursue other women and disturb or harm them.
This could very well be a good solution to this particular problem of rape in society.
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