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In reply to the discussion: Right. I'm doing this. I've been drunk enough to have woken up in bed with another guy [View all]ismnotwasm
(42,674 posts)56. You decide. You.
I used to have regret sex too-- never ever called it rape. Now The time I, very drunk, jumped in a car with a group of young men, who then scared the shit out of me by demanding sex (whereupon I, sitting next to the door opened that motherfucker and threatened to jump out until they let me out, ruining my shoes on the ground flying by and everything)--that would have been rape of course. I have other, far worse examples.
I've woken up with some passed out asshole, thought oh shit and crept out the door taking the booze and extracurriculars with me. Was that rape? No, because I remember my embarrassingly unfortunate intent to get laid, even if I don't remember the act itself.
I also remember men buying me drink after drink, with the intent of getting me drunk and themselves sex. That never worked with me, because I was a hardcore drinker at one time. I'd ditch their asses and go find a friend I liked. But the intent was there, and it did happen to women. The women I ran around with didn't cry rape either- they knew they'd get blamed.
Now, This was more years ago than I like to think but two things are clear, nothing much has changed about drinking behavior and women are sick of sexual predators.
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Right. I'm doing this. I've been drunk enough to have woken up in bed with another guy [View all]
sibelian
Jan 2015
OP
The implication is anyone who has been raped "collapses under the strain" and if they don't...
Behind the Aegis
Jan 2015
#14
Here's the deal as I see it, having worked with a fair number of both perps and victims:
Jackpine Radical
Jan 2015
#60
"One wonders how you'd feel if you woke up in a strange bed with a stranger and no idea"
sibelian
Jan 2015
#31
If you have sex with somebody who is drunk enough that they aren't going to remember it
mythology
Jan 2015
#62
Well I feel bad now because I'm not 100% sure in my mind that was the word he actually used
sibelian
Jan 2015
#48
I think the point of the OP is to point out that there is no "absolute" in this.
madinmaryland
Jan 2015
#64
I think the point is that those who claim that "all drunk sex is rape" are going too far.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2015
#39
I woke up with a woman, and neither of us could remember if anything "happened".
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2015
#55