Excessive drinking has killed brothers, contributed to many a "date" or "acquaintance" rape, and caused fellow students to raise weary eyebrows about frat-boys.
These feelings are especially common among college women who may have been drinking alcohol or taking illicit drugs when raped by a date or acquaintance.
In the projection room of television station WDSU, which is off a handsome Creole courtyard in the French Quarter, they had arranged for a showing of a documentary composed of various television-newsreel shots, and from this encounter I date my acquaintance with Uncle Earl.
Obvious examples include the abolition of marital-rape exemptions and the recognition of date and acquaintance rape.
Thus, in jurisdictions where this understanding of mens rea is in force, the question of whether the woman actually consented often gives way particularly in cases of date and acquaintance rape to the question of whether the man reasonably believed she consented.
Crimes of date and acquaintance rape and human-trafficking continue to rise and many cases are not officially reported.
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By far, most of the attempted or completed sexual assaults on college campuses are perpetrated by classmates, dates or acquaintances of the victim.
No guests want to appear cheap, particularly in front of somebody — a date, a business acquaintance — they are trying to impress.
Maybe Googling your date, a new acquaintance or an incoming boss was the first step down the slippery slope of digital snooping.
The terms date rape and acquaintance rape were originally introduced into public health parlance in the 1980s in an attempt to dispel the myth that the majority of rapes occurred as random attacks by strangers.
