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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 jdavidb on Wednesday September 21 2016, @03:14PM
Its her right not to be raped. Are you autistic or something? This is not complicated. You don't get to rape someone no matter what their mental state is, capiche?
I'm pretty sure that nearly nobody disputes that. What I can't see is the connection from my teaching my daughter "There are a lot of good reasons to never go to a bar or a drinking party. I never did, and I am very happy for it, and my life is very happy and fulfilling and I believe that the addition of bars and drinking parties in my past or my present would subtract from that. In addition, you have an extra factor that I didn't have: if you avoid bars and drinking parties, you dramatically lower your chances of being raped. I certainly don't believe that women who drink deserve to be raped, but I don't think drinking is a good idea, and you can be much safer if you avoid this sort of thing like your mother and I always have" - not sure how teaching that to my daughters means that I somehow believe men have the right to rape women.
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