Engaging in sex that involves money transaction(s) is called prostitution.
Sexual assault is a crime and accepting money to cover it up is considered both colluding with the perpetrator and obstruction of justice. The defense that these women were afraid, ashamed, etc. though understandable, does not excuse their behavior no more that the perpetrators using these sort of defenses to exonerate themselves.
Worse still it allows the perpetrators to not be held accountable or punished for their crimes and gives them the opportunity to continue doing it.
Many of the assaults could have been prevented had the women who took money to stay silent come forward instead.
Vladimir Putin Spokesman Likens Harvey Weinstein Accusers To “Prostitutes” | Deadline
A Moscow radio station is reporting that a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin has likened actresses who claimed sexual abuse by former producer Harvey Weinstein to “prostitutes.”
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the remarks in an unofficial capacity while speaking to students in Moscow. The statement was part of an awkward defense in response to a question regarding a senior member of the Russian Parliament who has been accused of sexual harassment.
Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in Parliament’s lower house, the State Duma, has been accused of making lewd sexual comments and groping by members of the Western media covering Russia.
Peskov has made no official comments on the Slutsky accusations but told students the women in the Slutsky case should have reported the offenses immediately. “If Slutsky attacked a poor journalist, where was she? Why did she put up with it?” he asked. “They got felt up in his office. Girls probably see better, but he can probably be seen as a not very pleasant man. If he felt you up, if he harassed you, why were you silent? Why did so much time pass and then you go to the ethics commission?
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