While this story is nothing close to the sexual assault events described in Dunham's book last year, it does raise questions.
Alcohol is often an emotional prop, a way of coping with pain, harm, sexual assault, traumatic events, inability to find the words to talk about stress, coping with financial pressure, family life, parenting pressure, death.
The main analysis was a repeated measures ANOVA for the imagery hot spots, with group (PTSD vs. no-PTSD) as the between-subject factor and imagery script (assault, negative event) as the within-subject factor.
A police spokesman said the assaults were "isolated events" and CCTV footage was being examined to try to identify the perpetrators.
Statistics on the total number of assaults at these events are difficult to find, but over the last few years, rapes have been reported at multiple festivals around the world, including at Electric Zoo in New York and Made in America Festival in Philadelphia in 2013.
ED data are not directly impacted by such confounders, provide a measure of health harms relating to nighttime assaults and include events that are not reported to police [ 11].
Tong ticked off the extreme weather events assaulting his country.
The high risk of experiencing sexual assault at these events is an open secret.
An Australian security company suggests using drones as a way to combat sexual assault at large events, including music festivals.
Last year, it hosted "national conferences" on sexual assault, although the events drew criticism from survivors who were not included in the planning process.
