I'm going to throw my two cents into the ring. First of all... men are sexually aroused by visual stimuli. If a sexually attractive woman is dressed in suggestive, provocative, or just plain skimpy clothing, a heterosexual man is going to find himself turned on by nothing more than the sight of her. That is simply a fact.
There are people out there that will commit rape. That is also a fact.
Should a woman be able to walk around all the time in nothing more than a thong bikini without having to worry about being raped? Of course. Ideally. But there is a difference between 'ideally' and 'really'. The fact of the matter is, no matter how much right a woman has to look any way she may wish, there are people out there that might rape her. So then, if the woman in the thong bikini is raped, is it her fault? Of course not. Would dressing more conservatively have prevented the rape. Perhaps. Although the rapist would have ended raping someone, so not really.
If I were a woman, I'd want to look sexy sometimes and dress provocatively on occasion, but I know that there are rapists out there, so... I'd have to be very aware of that. Still, in the end, it is the rapist that is at fault. At most, the woman may have made herself an attractive target for the rapist, but she did not make him cross that line. He did that.
There are people out there that will commit rape. That is also a fact.
Should a woman be able to walk around all the time in nothing more than a thong bikini without having to worry about being raped? Of course. Ideally. But there is a difference between 'ideally' and 'really'. The fact of the matter is, no matter how much right a woman has to look any way she may wish, there are people out there that might rape her. So then, if the woman in the thong bikini is raped, is it her fault? Of course not. Would dressing more conservatively have prevented the rape. Perhaps. Although the rapist would have ended raping someone, so not really.
If I were a woman, I'd want to look sexy sometimes and dress provocatively on occasion, but I know that there are rapists out there, so... I'd have to be very aware of that. Still, in the end, it is the rapist that is at fault. At most, the woman may have made herself an attractive target for the rapist, but she did not make him cross that line. He did that.