I still want to know more before I pass judgment on Watson.
There are 2 possibilities:
1 - Watson enjoys the power and humiliation by 'converting' (by force, persuasion, intimidation, or bribery) service providers into sex workers. If this is the case, at least 2 of those efforts are a type of rape. Rapists, child molesters, or child abusers are all on my WON'T CHEER FOR and CANNOT SUPPORT list.
If the evidence lines up with that, then he should be tried and jailed. But at a minimum be sued and lose his NFL position.
2 - Watson was purposely seeing sex workers in order to avoid some of the dangers that athletes face just picking up random women. He is basically college age, when I was in college I was easily sleeping with 4, sometimes 6 women in a week. 66 in a year isn't that much at that age, honestly. At that age you drink too much and sleep with too many people - you learn later it is kind of dumb.
If he was just messaging 'erotic massage providers' or 'tantric providers' then he wasn't trying to victimize anyone, another maybe a few were misinterpreted. But erotic massage providers sleep with their clients. At least that is the expectation. If the Grand Jury looked at how they were advertising themselves and declined to indict because sexual services were a reasonable expectation based on how they presented their services?
Then I don't care.
(My roommate after college did this for work. I know EXACTLY how that industry works even though I would be too concerned about STDs to do this.)
We have no way of knowing which of the 2 is the circumstance without knowing if those providers were providing those services to other clients or presenting themselves in ways that this was a reasonable expectation.
If that is the case then 66 in a year isn't a big shock. 66 in 6 months might not even be. It isn't ideal or even smart, but it wouldn't be predatory.
I've experienced the reverse, where I went to a massage and the woman tried to provide a lot more than a massage. That was a normal really nice upscale spa too, not some 'erotic massage' provider or some weird place on the side of Hwy 99. So it isn't crazy.
