You never know when some normal hobbyists who follows the rules can just snap one day, possibly because of feeling empowered by crap like that.As a normal hobbyist, I kind of take umbrage to that comment. I don't want to diminish the risks that providers take every time you see a new hobbyist, but to suggest that any one of us could just snap and turn rapist is a little melodramatic. Its one of the problems with these activities being illicit -- no one can do a "no-bullshit" study on these types of things. I suspect that if they did, they would find that the percentage of rapists among hobbyists is about the same as the percentage of rapists among the average population. But, of course, I can't say that with certainty because our elected officials have kept all of this locked away.
And if anyone wants to "try" rape, a provider is the best target because she is unlikely to call the police. Originally Posted by Sensual Sophia
Comments like that are alarmist and don't do anything to improve the relationship between providers and hobbyists, which seems to be the point of the co-ed section to begin with. They also contribute to the religious right's completely fictional idea that hobbyists and prostitutes are deviants outside normal human behavior, given to violence and crime.
I'm not defending the writer of that article. He's a douchebag and IMHO fantasizing. The whole thing reeks of bullshit, even the comments of the one's "egging him on". Everyone types big from the safety and solitude of their home PC. In the real world, we're all a bunch of pussies. But that's beside the point. What I'm trying to say is that, by and large, most of us hobby safely and free from violence. I don't doubt that the violence and force depicted in that asshole's "story" exist, but I believe them to be aberrations.
But that's just my opinion, from my limited view of this whole deal. I also wouldn't be surprised to learn that I'm as wrong as two people fucking in church on Sunday, Easter day. I'm just talking about the hundreds and thousands of reviews, representing a very, very small portion of the hobbying going on, and the rareness of alerts about violent behavior. If it's really as simple as "any hobbyist just snapping", it seems to me we'd hear about it a whole lot more.
