Let’s look at this story from a somewhat different angle. Let us try to understand whether the girl’s chances of being raped and murdered might have been lower if tens (or hundreds) of thousands of young, healthy men, torn away from their usual surroundings, isolated in an unfamiliar metropolis, and suffering from brutal sexual deprivation, had been able to satisfy their desires in a socially acceptable way. In other words, wouldn’t hundreds of thousands of Moscow girls the same age as Anya Beshnova have felt safer if Moscow had a widespread and, most importantly, universally affordable network of commercial sex services? from here I have known Nikolai Khramov personally for quite a long time, and he always seemed like a reasonable person. Although he occasionally hisses something against me in his little blog, I had generally thought well of him — a somewhat odd romantic libertarian. And now Kolya has written an article about the need to legalize prostitution, using the case of the raped and murdered minor Anna Beshnova as an example. The article goes into great detail analyzing the sex-services market: Independent escorts, however, very rarely travel to clients, because that requires at least one driver-bodyguard in addition. They advertise their services mainly through the Internet. The average price per hour is over 3,000 rubles, though it can reach as much as 400 dollars. In any case, it is almost never lower than 2,000 rubles. Perhaps that kind of analysis deserves attention, and perhaps the issue of legalizing prostitution really is important and serious. But what does the brutally murdered Anna Beshnova have to do with any of this? Kolya, you will read this post. You’ll find it through a blog search. Your article is disgusting. Its brazen provocativeness is disgusting. And disgusting too are the passages claiming that nationalists want Russian girls in Russia to be raped and murdered exclusively by ethnically Russian criminals, rather than by migrant outsiders. I hope you reread it and come to understand that yourself. I hope you become ashamed that you are arguing for the legalization of prostitution by using the example of a murdered child. And to the editors of Kasparov.ru, I send a ray of bewilderment over the fact that they (a) published this article (b) put it on the front page of the site with such a subheading.
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