Alcohol, the hook-up culture, and college rape

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Sunday, July 14. 2013

Alcohol, the hook-up culture, and college rape

How is all this a victory for feminism?

"Only later did Haley begin to think of what had happened as rape — a disturbingly common part of many women’s college experience. In a 2007 survey funded by the Justice Department of 6,800 undergraduates at two big public universities, nearly 14 percent of women said they had been victims of at least one completed sexual assault at college; more than half of the victims said they were incapacitated from drugs or alcohol at the time.

Another victory for contemporary feminism!"

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 17:37 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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If a so-called victim doesn't know she's been raped until some ideological group convinces her she was -- then she wasn't. No one should need this explained to them.

#1 jdgalt on 2013-07-14 19:49 (Reply)

I wish you were right, but it really is more complicated. What complicates it is "acquaintance rape" and "date rape." Also, alcohol. It's all a messy area and always will be.

#1.1 Dr. B. on 2013-07-14 20:43 (Reply)

I was drunk too. So don't blame me!

#1.1.1 Jim (Link) on 2013-07-14 22:24 (Reply)

Quite right, its one thing to use alcohol/whatever to lower your inhibitions, its rape when you pass out and wake up intermittently to find a jack hammer crew at work.

Yet on the other hand, how much of this sounds like a college boy's fantasy, women eager to have committment less sex with whoever's handy.

Or will the pendlumn swing in the direction of men resenting being used as walking talking sex toys?

#1.1.2 walt moffett on 2013-07-14 22:32 (Reply)

In our 30-year study from birth (Lives Across Time), almost every woman had her first sexual experience when drunk -- every one of them regretted this. Many of the boys also were drunk on their first sexual experiences -- none expressed regret.

We could treat this more dispassionately-- like finding crime statistics and locations, or finding prevalence of infections and associated risk factors -- and responding by decreasing the risk. This would lead to less misery among young women (and less angst among parents).

As for Universities: that they turn a blind eye to their 18-20 year olds drunk fests and the adverse consequences should at least lead parents to insist on more protection for their tuition.

#2 ns (Link) on 2013-07-15 00:27 (Reply)

60 years ago when I was young the girls used alcohol as an excuse to do things they wanted to do but proper young girls did not do. I suppose today with the collapse of morals as related to sex and unwed mothers that girls no longer feel they need an excuse to do what proper young girls did not do. But somehow I suspect not so much has changed. I suspect many young women choose to drink alcohol and then feel freed from conscience to do 2 or 3 guys and even do acts they couldn't even think of doing sober. Doubt it?? You need to go to spring break. Although the boys are there to see and do make no mistake the girls are there to show and be done (and to do as well). What saddens me is somehow being drunk is allowed to absolve one of the actors in the act of sex but alcohol somehow doesn't absolve the one of the wrong (or politically incorrect) gender.

#3 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-07-16 15:00 (Reply)

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