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acquaintance rape

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acquaintance rape
n.
Rape perpetrated by someone known to the victim.


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Acquaintance rape and alcohol consumption on college campuses: How are they linked?
The point, however, is lost in the gratuitous descriptions of sex acts and acquaintance rapes.
Thus, Roiphe's scathing indictment of "rape crisis feminism," with its dogma that women are imperiled by male brutes at every turn and that verbal pressure is just as bad as physical violence, was largely well-received, even if some students felt that Roiphe was too dismissive of the problem of real acquaintance rape.
 
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