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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6440589/Date-rape-drink-spiking-an-urban-legend.html
Widespread spiking of drinks with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol and GHB is an "urban legend" fuelled by young women unwilling to accept they have simply consumed too much alcohol, academics believe. A study of more than 200 students revealed many wrongly blamed the effects of a "bad night out" on date-rape drugs, when they had just drunk excessively.
Many are in "active denial" that drinking large amounts of alcohol can leave them "incoherent and incapacitated", the Kent University researchers concluded. Young women's fears about date-rape drugs are so ingrained that students mistakenly think it is a more important factor in sexual assault than being drunk, taking drugs or walking alone at night.
The study, published in the British Journal of Criminology, found three-quarters of students identified drink spiking as an important risk – more than alcohol or drugs. More than half said they knew someone whose drink had been spiked.
But despite popular beliefs, police have found no evidence that rape victims are commonly drugged with such substances, the researchers said.
Dr Adam Burgess from the university's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, said: "Young women appear to be displacing their anxieties about the consequences of consuming what is in the bottle on to rumours of what could be put there by someone else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:09PM
Two words: Enthusiastic Consent.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:12PM
Two drunk words: Cellphone recording buzzed intercourse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:17PM
#NotAnymore
(Score: 2) by black6host on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:16PM
Well, yeah, that was how it was when I was young. And is now as well. For me. However, one can be quite drunk, and quite enthusiastic, and then claim they were not able to consent due to the fact that they were drunk or had their drink spiked. Enthusiastic Consent doesn't help there.
(Score: 3, Informative) by slinches on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:34PM
Even if both parties are sober and give consent, if one party changes their mind later and claims that they didn't consent, the other's life is ruined (or the complaint is just ignored, depending on the genders). And written consent doesn't count if they're drunk. And who knows if either party is lying about being clean of STDs.
Sex is risky when no one deserves the benefit of the doubt.