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mercuryblues

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Mon Jan 26, 2015, 10:34 AM Jan 2015

Rape is sexual freedom, of sexual experimentation [View all]

Yes that is the defense in the Vandy gang rape case. That and the alleged rapists were too drunk to know what they were doing. Or maybe it was rape culture. Yeah, and one of her rapists was her boyfriend at the time.

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2015/01/14/da-victim-vanderbilt-rape-case-experienced-worst-nightmare/21735851/

A woman studying at Vanderbilt University was a member of the dance team and “in a good place” until June 23, 2013.

“Little did she know that day that held such great promise for her would turn into her worst nightmare,” Thurman said.

In 19 minutes, Thurman gave a graphic and blunt account of what four former football players are accused of doing to the woman that day: raping and sexually assaulting her in a Vanderbilt dorm room while she was unconscious, and then trying to cover it up.
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“The culture was of sexual freedom, of sexual experimentation. It was a culture that encouraged sexual promiscuity,” Robinson told the jurors. “But not, not just (that) alone, there was also a culture of alcohol and alcohol consumption. And alcohol that changed him and changed others and changed several people on the morning of June 23, 2013.”
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