Argumentative Essay On Date Rape

Date rape is rape committed by someone with whom the victim has gone on a date with. David R. Carlin Jr. states the definition of date rape and the important distinction between voluntary and involuntary actions and explains the issue with why date rape is so complex. This new definition of date rape explores the complexity behind what consent is and has more of a view point from the victim rather than perpetrator. An interesting rebuttal that Carlin brings up is the question: does purely one hundred percent consent even exist especially in sexual terms? Although this rebuttal brings up another good point, the message that needs to get across to college students is that consent must be one hundred percent their own. One should not participate
Burnett, et al. says in the source that college students in a sorority or fraternity are the students typically who indulge in alcohol before sex. This makes sense since many fraternities are the ones hosting the parties with the alcohol. For example, on Baylor University’s campus recently a fraternity’s president sexually assaulted a female after a fraternity party where alcohol was involved. There are many factors that are included in date rape culture, such as date rape myths. Date rape myths can be defined as “prejudicial stereotyped, or false beliefs about rape, rape victims or rapists”, this definition comes from the source “Principal Component Analysis of the College Date Rape Attitude Survey (CDRAS): An Instrument for the evaluation of Date Rape Prevention Programs” By Cynthia A. Lanier and Bradley A. Green. Some common date rape myths that are mentioned in the source are that if a woman dresses a certain way on a date she deserves to get date raped or if a male pays for dinner he is entitled to sexual intercourse with the female even if she disagrees. None of these myths are true and not what people should think about date rape, especially college