Is College This "Sexy?"

Northstarmom
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:55:29 +0000

It’s simply fact that there are lots of sexual assaults on college campuses and that over three quarters of those assaults are of freshman and first semester sophomores. The vast majority of those that are reported are committed by upperclassmen. The typical case is a first semester female, a bit drunk, and a senior. I think that’s more than half the reported cases.

I think you have to tell your daughters that it’s a bad idea to drink too much and an even worse one to drink too much when you are with people you don’t know well."

Parents of sons: Please also tell your sons the above info because there are sexual predators who prey on males by slipping things in their drinks and then sexually assaulting them. Male victims are even more reluctant to report this than are females, so the crime is under reported, and the victims tend to blame themselves even more than many females do.

Just as a female can’t look at a man and tell who’s a sexual predator, the same is true of men who prey on males. Males who prey on males can look heterosexual. In my town, a male who was convicted of doing this was a very handsome, macho appearing ex Marine.

All of this info needs to be given to your children when they are in middle school as some sexual predators target youth of that age, typically by befriending them (sometimes with the mom’s approval as the predators can seem very nice), and then offering them booze and other “cool” things.