An interesting piece in The Guardian from 10 days ago. Today’s Sunday Times (£) carries a piece titled Why are so many men being spiked? The subtitle is “At least a third of victims are male. Drugs are being used for everything from pranks to robberies and sexual assaults – and the results can be fatal.”
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Reading this reminded me we are about due for the 4th iteration (since 1999) of the “spiked by injection” moral panic. Typically set off by stories in the media of young women “feeling funny” after a night on the town. The explanation being they’d been spiked by a drug injected at the night club or bar. Interestingly though it is claimed this is to make them vulnerable to sexual assault the cases never include sexual assault. This being the first obvious problem, if men do indeed roam about randomly injecting women it appears they don’t/can’t follow them home. Anyway because we must “believe women” and women are particularly likely to fall for “social contagion” we get a slew of claims “me too”, the political establishment insists the Police respond to this “epidemic” and find the sexist (latterly misogynist) miscreants. Duly Police forces have to investigate all reports carefully. After a period time and with some handwringing about lack of progress the story fades due to the absence of any case going to court. Perhaps a year later and “expert” in a “high brow” programme will explain that there have been no proven cases because: Wandering around with needles in a club or bar isn’t that easy. The amount needed to be effective requires more than a pin prick so is unlikely to go unnoticed at the time. And anyway none of the cases showed traces in the bloodstream. Of course the easiest way to “spike” is simply to get more/stronger alcohol into drinks or slip something else into the drink. It seems then the panic fades for 3 or 4 years.
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Thanks Nigel, a moral panic, indeed. I recall reading that there were only one or two chemicals that could possibly have the impact a wrong ‘un might want. It would take a minute or more to inject a sufficient amount into a person to be effective, without the person noticing. It defies the ‘sense test’.
Of course the usual reason the women ‘felt funny’ was that they’d drunk too much alcohol, but nobody ever wanted to point that out. We can’t start holding women accountable for their actions or inactions, can we?
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