Women aged 16 to 24 experience the highest per capita rate of intimate partner violence.
Get Educated: Under the Influence
How can one person's choice to drink increase responsibility while another's decreases responsibility? What if both people are drinking? The answer is not always black or white - it is most often in the gray area.
If someone chooses to drink alcohol, that choice never equates to "asking" to get hurt. No one should ever hurt or take advantage of another person's vulnerability or impairment. Society often blames victims of sexual assault who have been drinking because it is assumed that their choice to drink led to the assault. In reality, it is an offender who chooses to take advantage of another person's level of intoxication to commit an assault. When alcohol is involved in a sexual assault- it is always the fault of the offender- regardless of whether or not he/she had been drinking as well.
It is always a best practice to avoid engaging in sexual activity while drinking or drunk.
If consent is unclear, stop immediately and clarify with your partner. Remember, those incapacitated by the use of drugs or alcohol are unable to consent to sexual activity. Engaging in any sort of sexual activity with a person who is incapacitated is AGAINST THE LAW and a violation of the SEXUAL MISCONDUCT policy at William and Mary.
When alcohol is involved in a sexual assault, we do know that victims are generally held MORE responsible ("They shouldn't have been drinking") and offenders are generally held LESS responsible ("Well, they had been drinking").
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