Teen sex at drunken parties: interesting points of view!
Were you there ? Did you witness it ?
Because girls never do things they regret and lie about what happened after to make themselves look like the victim ?
I don't know what really happened to these girls the WHOLE STORY not the tidbits of info the news decides to air but I know I have seen first hand what can happen when a girl regrets her decision and all of a sudden becomes the victim in her own mind and makes false accusations to look innocent.
Kudos to the brothers for the level of discourse in this thread.
Anyone who knows the raging hormones of boys—with inhibitions numbed by alcohol—won't consider it implausible that passed-out teenage girls get raped at parties.
But you're right,
gpchillin—plausibility isn't certainty. Teenage sex at drunken parties isn't always simply a matter of horny boys raping innocent girls.
Let's not forget, young people nowadays live in the age of hookup culture. A substantial percentage of Canadian female highschoolers aged 14-17 are having sex. (For anyone interested, there's research here:
http://menstuff.org/issues/byissue/teensex.html)
Some teenage girls are even capable of running a whole prostitution ring!
http://metronews.ca/news/canada/624...cused-of-running-an-ottawa-prostitution-ring/
So it's clearly not always boys who're the devils and girls who're the angels. Lots of 15 to 17-yr-old girls have discovered the powerful dopamine rush they get from sex, and some may go to parties looking forward to it.
In her amazing book
Vagina, Naomi Wolf has this to say about "date rape" (p151):
"...feminism, and women's campaigns in general, so often reflexively put their claims in a frame of women as 'abused innocents,' especially when it comes to sexual issues...Feminists learned that they gained social sympathy, status, and legal victories by constructing a narrative of helpless female sexual victimization by predatory, brutal men...
The trouble is that most date rapes today happen after a nuanced encounter—in which a woman wants this, but emphatically does not want that. If we are unable ever to talk about sexual agency without fearing that this makes us 'fair game' for [vicious attacks by the politically correct], we will never be able to prosecute real rapes successfully."
Powerful, thought-provoking stuff. So it's not a foregone conclusion, in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons or Audrie Pott (and several similar cases), that pending law suits will actually prove sexual assault. Parents that are pressing for criminal charges against the boys may be in for a surprise when they hear "the facts" about their daughters.
Shame typically discourages truth-telling, and parents who consider a daughter's sexual encounters to be shameful give her irresistible incentive to minimize her share of responsibility for what happened. So what these girls told their folks likely isn't even close to the truth.
We don't know to what extent the sex was non-consensual. But it seems crystal clear that it's not the rape, but subsequent public shaming via the Internet, that drove these girls to suicide. Such shaming would clearly not work in a truly sex-positive society that found only rape repugnant—but sex itself about as morally neutral as brushing one's teeth.
These boys are total slimebags for uploading sexually explicit photos. It drove the girls to suicide. And no doubt, as a result of all the publicity, many girls are now too scared to attend parties—which of course spoils boys' chances for hookups.