According to “U.S department of justice” 84% of women knew who raped them, 57% of rape happened on a date. This topic is important because we need to know more about date rape that is prevalent among college students. Date rape among college students is an epidemic that needs to be addressed. “To illustrate date rape”, we will look at its definition as well as its victims, the causes, prevention and what to do when you fall victim of date rape.
“To begin” date rape is not peculiar to one gender, in order words anyone can be a victim irrespective of the gender.
Firstly, what is date rape and who are the victims?
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Date rape is an act of forcefully having a sexual intercourse with a person you go on a date with without his or her consent.
Now this brings me to the question of who fall victim of date rape.
Male folks fall victim of rape as well as their female folks; According to womenshealth.gov women are the main victim of rape and I in 4 college women are raped while 1 in 10 college men are raped and this implies that women are more raped and . Also 42% of these rape victims do not report to the police or told no one due to fear of being killed or fear of being stigmatised by the society.
Now that we know that male folks fall victim just like their female counterpart as well as the definition, let us move on to the causes of date rape.
‘’According to women’s centre of Houston” 53% of cases involve drugs and alcohol which sometimes are a significant factor especially in date rape and acquaintance rape cases.
There are quite number of drugs rapists use on their victims such as Rohypnol which can be gotten on the counter in any pharmacy store, it is a sedative that comes inform of a pill that would be placed in a victim’s drink while on a date, it causes drowsiness which makes the victim to be unaware of what is going on around him or her and this enable the rapist to perpetrate his/her evil act without the victim being aware because the drug stays in the body for several hours.
The use of alcohol to rape is also rampant among the youths, they cajole or persuade their dates to keep on taking the alcohol till they get drunk, tipsy, and drowsy and they forcefully rape them. Now that we understand the causes of date rape, let us move to its prevention’s
In order to prevent date rape, youths, college students need to be sensitise, and admonish on how to be vigilant whenever they are on dates.
As a matter of fact, they should teach them necessary precautions such as not take a drink that was not opened in their presence.
Now that we know how to prevent date rape, let’s move on to what to be done when you are raped.
According to women’s health.gov, you are to speak up and not keep quiet but report to the police immediately. They should also let victims know that they must go for medical treatment immediately they are raped and not be shy about it.
In conclusion, so again date rape is prevalent among college student. I made mention of its definition as well as the victims of date rape, the causes, and prevention’s and what to do when a student falls victim. The next time you are going out on a date, be extra vigilant of your environment and do not trust your date.
