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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, you said at Stanford.  Since you'very come this far, it might help others, without sensitive details, what type of on-campus environment it occurred.  Respectfully, in your comment "there's one for you", I sense you think we feel that rape only takes place in frat activities.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

Rape can occur anywhere.  The lead story on the local news this morning was about a woman assaulted while walking from Metro.

Share if you wish but do not think anyone is trivializing your experience.

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I don't plan to post follow-ups, but if your point is to truly understand then...  Yes it was on-campus, and alcohol was involved.  But not excessive amounts (I knew what was happening to me and wasn't able to stop it though I wanted and tried to...I still remember the details 17 years later).  It was probably in one of the safer settings you could imagine to be drinking alcohol on a college campus (both in terms of location and people).

Rape can happen anywhere and to anyone.  I had previously done very foolish things and never once even felt threatened.  In retrospect, of course I could have done a couple of things differently that night which likely could have prevented what happened (and believe me, I dwelled on those for a long time).  But I would venture to say that if you accept that people might ever want to speak to and spend time alone with a member of the opposite sex for any reason, then you would consider the situation I was in to be relatively safe.  Aside from the fact that we had been drinking earlier, I don't think the alcohol played a significant role in what happened.[/quote]

I am so sorry to hear about your experience. I hope that you reported the crime and that the perpetrator was duly punished.  No means no, no matter what.  Thank you for sharing about a truly terrible event in your life and providing the rest of us with your perspective.

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