Troy Singleton Rape By Fraud Case

In the case of “rape by fraud”, the bill, if passed, will become a law that will hold all individuals, male or female, accountable for lying to get sex in the eyes of the law. However, the New Jersey lawmaker, Troy Singleton, could be targeting men. In some of his interviews on why he proposed this bill, he was quoted using pronouns like “him” or “he” and never using “she” or “her” when he is discussing the perpetrators. I cannot say for sure if the lawmaker knows that he is coming off as sexist or not, but the way he is wording some of his statements are suggesting that the target population is men. When the topic of sexual assault and rape comes up, the stigma is usually that men are the perpetrators and the women cannot be the perpetrators. So, it is not surprising that in this unique rape bill that men are directly and indirectly targeted as the perpetrator and not necessarily the

victims. The bill was proposed to protect women from being lied to by men to get sex from them.
When considering other factors that might could separate who is targeted, there are not many factors that will separate the targets.

All men of all races, backgrounds, and social classes will be targeted by this law, if passed. Men will be the direct targets because of the stigmas around rape and sexual crimes, but women are not safe from this law either. This law will hold women accountable too because the terms “deception” and “fraud” are too vague for a sex crime and cannot be limited to words. The bill is based on how men and women are conditioned to approach relationships, but the problem is that there is a difference in how men and women are condition. Women do not have to necessarily approach a man to have a relationship because women are condition to believe that men are the ones that do the approaching. On the other hand, most men are condition to approach women to have a relationship and to be able to talk, use words, to convince or sell themselves to the women in hopes that she will take the bait. So, when considering that notion men are the primary targets of this

bill.
When trying to figure out what the benefits are and how people benefit from this bill, I could only think of a few benefits that will come from this law. The main benefit from this law should be more honest intentions in reasons why they are seeking a relationship because of the severity of this law and its consequences, which will mainly benefit women. Besides more honest intentions I could not think of many other benefits that will come from this law. However, I could think of a multitude of different problems that could arise from this bill, if passed. I can imagine countless and useless debates over what is “deception”, waste of valuable time and energy that could have be use to work on more important topics, an increase in overpopulations in jails and prisons, and many other problems that could be avoided from this bill. I truly believe that this bill will cause more problems than it will solve.
Although, I cannot see many benefits that will come out this bill if passed, I do believe a few different entities and groups of people will indirectly benefit from this bill passing. Monetary benefits will come for the legal system and everyone that has some kind of connections to the legal system. This bill will fuel more ways to exploit its citizens from maintaining a certain percentage population that will allow the prison to gain monetary compensation from the government for the inmates they house to the fines that the “perpetrators” will have to pay to the court system, lawyers, bondsmen, and the victims.