acquaintance rape

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I was a young woman in the 1980s, long before all the contemporary conversations about consent and believing victims began, before terms like acquaintance rape and workplace sexual harassment were in regular circulation.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2020

He was confident enough in his case to tell the Star, “Tyson is going to be the cutting-edge case defining the law of acquaintance rape probably for the next decade.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

The courtroom machinations delved extensively into the work of the judge’s wife, plunging into her speaking engagements and into her academic career by addressing her academic writings about acquaintance rape.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2018

Warshaw’s book translated psychologist Mary Koss and colleagues’ groundbreaking scholarly study of date and acquaintance rape for the general public.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2016

The use of new terms, like acquaintance rape and date rape, while controversial, has given men and women the vocabulary they need to express their experiences with both force and precision.

From Time Magazine Archive