October 18, 2013
REGRET ISN'T RAPE:
College Women: Stop Getting Drunk : It's closely associated with sexual assault. And yet we're reluctant to tell women to stop doing it. (Emily Yoffe, 10/17/13, Slate)
A common denominator in these cases is alcohol, often copious amounts, enough to render the young woman incapacitated. But a misplaced fear of blaming the victim has made it somehow unacceptable to warn inexperienced young women that when they get wasted, they are putting themselves in potential peril.A 2009 study of campus sexual assault found that by the time they are seniors, almost 20 percent of college women will become victims, overwhelmingly of a fellow classmate. Very few will ever report it to authorities. The same study states that more than 80 percent of campus sexual assaults involve alcohol. Frequently both the man and the woman have been drinking.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 18, 2013 5:04 PM
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