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Brad appeared in the STP video...

Shouldn't the song entry appear as a separate entry from the act? -JeebusSez 15:06, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Merged

• should not be merged 69.136.128.140 22:41, 18 September 2006 Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by Esdawg (talk • contribs) 16:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC).

statistics my name is nic

I took out the statistics and the links to the statistics. Figures like those are notoriously inaccurate and any statistics on this page should come from sources where we can verify their methodology such as links to academic papers. It is especially important in statistics like this to know how the various terms, like "rape" and "consent" are defined. I also think at that any statistics that are added should reflect the male experience as much as possible. [[User: 19:59, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

its not rape its surprise sex

biased article

This is an incredibly biased article as written. I am new to editing wikis and actually created an account to comment on this because I find it *so* offensive. In the US, Canada, and most of Europe, most people believe and the legal system recognizes that sex while either person is too intoxicated to give consent is rape, and that wearing revealing clothing does not imply consent. This article makes it sound like there actually is a debate on this and that the existence of date rape is actually controvesial. It's offensive and misogynist. At a minimum it should be flagged as controversial - I'm afraid I don't know how to do that. User: madscientistgirl 20:33 30 Nov 2007 EST

Also I'm really not sure why the bulk of the discussion is actually under "Social Issue." That's a large part of why this is biased. The subheading seems totally out of place. Date rape is not a "social issue" - it is a crime. This also makes it sound like there is ambiguity in the definition of rape. Rape is non-consensual sex or sex by a person unable to consent, perhaps because of age or intoxication. People can argue about facts - whether consent was given - but the definition is pretty straight forward. madscientistgirl 21:57 30 Nov 07

Not all type of non-consensual sex is the same. Date rape most often lacks the psychological trauma that control rape causes and also the motives are different. A rapist who uses rape as a form of torture to break the will of his/her victim usually has very deep psychological issues as opposed to a sexually frustrated person who loses control over his physical drives and starts sexually abusing others. 62.47.231.88 (talk) 17:42, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

What if the Roles are Reversed?

This article focuses almost entirely on "him -> her" violence. Could somebody expand and add with references and statistics involving "her -> him", "him -> him" and "her -> her" rape? Yes, they do occur, and no, they are no less significant than the standard view of date rape. Most modern societies paint the woman as the only "victim" in a rape situation, and ignore the inequality of doing so.

Men can be victims of heterosexual rape too, and same-sex non-consentual activity is still rape. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.247.123.38 (talk) 22:30, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Errata

Why is there only limited mention of GHB?

I took the following out for lack of citation:

55% of females & 75% of males admit to have been drinking or using drugs when acquaintance rape occurred. 90% of all campus rapes occur when alcohol has been used by either the assailant or the victim. As many as 70% of college students admit to having engaged in sexual acts primarily as a result of being under the influence of alcohol, when they wouldn’t have if they had been sober.

The "Effects of Rape on the victim" section doesn't have any particular relevance to date rape.

"Statistics" section. Updated statistics section to reflect what the cites showed. Sammichraptor (talk) 18:05, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Sad but better statistics

Note on reverted edit about six month acquaintances:

• Many of my respon­dents felt that being in a rela­tion­ship jus­ti­fied what they would oth­er­wise con­sider date rape. When told that the girl and boy are in a long-term rela­tion­ship, the num­ber of respon­dents who believed Sce­nario B to be date rape dropped to 48.6% (from 77.8% when the two were not in a rela­tion­ship).

The point is that a surprisingly large many young people feel that force is justifiable in a sexual relationship, despite what the law says (not to mention Christian morality, or Jewish for that matter). I hope I won't let my objections to rape distort my editorial judgment, so I'll wait and see whether anyone replies before trying to add a statistic again. --Uncle Ed (talk) 04:54, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

More statistics (this time from a universtiy):

• Twenty-seven percent of women who were date raped did not realize that what happened met the legal definition of date rape.
• Eighty-four percent of men who were involved in a date rape did not realize that what they did met the legal definition of date rape.

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