date rape

Speech parts

1. date rape - Noun

2. date rape - Verb

Meaning

rape in which the rapist is known to the victim (as when they are on a date together)

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date-rape

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Mild paedophilia is bad. Violent paedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild paedophilia, go away and learn how to think. Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think. Richard Dawkins

A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay's being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer's remorse. Warren Farrell

If the law tries to legislate our "yeses” and "noes” it will produce "the straitjacket generation” – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing. Warren Farrell

Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape. Warren Farrell

We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting. Warren Farrell

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women. Warren Farrell

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