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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: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday September 21 2016, @03:03PM
Since you apparently misunderstood, I will repeat myself more explicitly, and hopefully with less ambiguity:
I cannot (and have not) made any argument against the fact that rape and sexual assault are completely unacceptable. I agree with you completely on that point.
My initial comment was targeted *only* at your question:
>Where exactly am I "...focusing on the date rape drug aspect?"
And my response is that you are doing so by oening (andhaving almost your entire comment focus on the frequency of date rape drug use:
>Operative Term In TFS
>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.
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>This doesn't mean that rape/assault doesn't happen, and it doesn't mean that Rohypnol/GHB aren't ever used as described.
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>Regardless of any findings, consent is not optional. Full stop.
5 lines.
The first 3 lines focused exclusively on the frequency of date rape drug use.
1 line pointing out that rape, and the use of rape drugs, do in fact happen - a point I don't see anyone contesting.
And finally all of 6 words objecting to rape itself.
Both the tone and weight of content lend itself to being interpreted as a disagreement with the article's point that overblown concern over date rape drugs is distracting women from the fact that excessive alcohol consumption can itself expose them to the same risks, and is the far larger real danger.
Your closing line, the only one that carries any point close to "rape is bad" then feels like little more than a tacked-on parting shot at any potential rapists in the audience that might think otherwise