88Pro Thinking

I recently got chain mail (my view on chain mail) warning about the pill Rohypnol which is the latest drug men use to commit rape (it seems!!!). Search on Google reveals that there exist such a drug and there are few isolated incidents of usage of this drug to facilitate rape. However it has been over hyped and actually the threat seems to be far less than what’s been told to the public. (Check the links below)

What is interesting is, in a study published in 1999, it is said after examining 1179 samples from across USA of reported cases of drink spiking, it was found that in around 40 per cent of cases nothing was found at all, not even alcohol. What could be possible explanation for this? Here is my view.

Woman: how come I got raped last night?
Her mind: Ya, you didn’t even resist?
Woman: I don’t know. I knew it was wrong but, I really don’t know what happened.
Her mind: Could it be that your drink was spiked?
Woman: That explains, if I was in my senses it couldn’t have happened right?
Woman: Ya, let call the Police, thank you my mind for a possible explanation, I thought I was in lot of trouble.

I know its bad to make fun of rape and I am sure there is lots of trauma people have to go through. However this particular 40% of the cases looks like these are people who just slept around and in the morning went through an oooops(wtf did I do last night?) moment and just called the police to get the guy into trouble. Otherwise without even a trace of Alcohol they had sex (raped according to them) and think they were raped because they didn’t know what was happening around them??? Ya right!!!

Drink spiking - a reality or urban myth?

Drug-rape: an urban myth?

Rohypnol--How the Hype Tricks Women: A Rape Crisis Centre View

posted by 88Pro / Sunday, June 12, 2005