‘Was I drugged and raped? I’ll never know’: partners of accused share fears at Pelicot trial

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1. By their own admission, [roughly 6% of unincarcerated American men are rapists, and the authors acknowledge that their methods will have led to an *underestimate*. Higher estimates are closer to 14%.](https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/repeat-rape-and-multiple-offending-among-undetected-rapists)

   That comes out to somewhere between 1 in 17 and 1 in 7 unincarcerated men in America being rapists, with a cluster of studies showing about 1 in 8, [most with multiple victims](https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/repeat-rape-and-multiple-offending-among-undetected-rapists).

   [Rape is one of the most severe of all traumas, causing multiple, long-term negative outcomes](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/38d2/cc8df92f64acb9141d6d8ef0d79d0ce2fe15.pdf), [regardless](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3262661/) of perpetrator [tactics](https://www.reddit.com/r/stoprape/comments/zyznhe/rape_is_so_common_in_part_because_so_many_people/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3).

   [Most of the public see rape as about as bad murder](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02799-w).

   To fully reign in this atrocious behavior, we need [more convictions](https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/09/19/rape-kit-backlog-progress-rocky/73806719007/). Increasing the probability of [apprehension by law enforcement](https://wwww.startribune.com/one-state-found-a-better-way-to-investigate-rape/501636971/) is [the only effective deterrent identified](https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1086/670398.pdf?casa_token=OmK0_Jh8HkMAAAAA:Tr35vi73FXLAFJ9xUw13XXkPdAaMN7t_o8jI75bHYhheCFagZ5jfMwa-Op0VJrxOVXLqE-JykDCO4khDO6ABCjQ8FmnohHIw23YpCPPQmzHmlu87Mce-).

   r/stoprape

2. Hey OP, not saying that this isn’t important news, but what is going on with your post history? You post constantly and it’s always about rape

   You doing okay?

3. This is heartbreakingly sad. I can’t even imagine what it’s like to:
   1) find out your partner is accused of raping a woman who was drugged and completely unaware
   2) wonder if the same had happened to you and potentially never get answers
   3) wonder if every time you left your partner alone with a friend/daughter/niece/sister etc. if he had done or considered doing the same to them.

   That would seriously fuck with your head for years to come.

   Why do people like this even exist?

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