George Takei Accused of Sexually Assaulting Former Model in 1981

[moriah]

113. As I said, I believe victims until something comes up to prove otherwise.

In the "child sex pizza" fiasco, I don't recall there being a single victim actually identified even by age and gender or their parents making anonymous statements, etc. There was no victim to believe.

But I am not going to immediately dismiss someone who describes something that was close enough to what I experienced, at least not without bitching mightily about the people who discredit their story simply for the same reasons the cops couldn't be bothered to really work my case (that it was someone I knew so all the rape kit proved was precum got inside me, not how).

I was an adult. I was in his home willingly. I willingly drank myself into a stupor and laid down on the couch, and didn't wake back up until he'd carefully carried me to another room, disturbed as little of my clothing as he could to gain access, and was being penetrated.

I am fortunate that he was trying to be sneaky, because he decided the "safest" way to do it would be to have me laying on my side away from him and him penetrate from behind -- I had jeans on. When I woke up to an unwanted penis in my vagina, I was able to get away. I wouldn't have been able to had he been on top of me.

Just because he is an adult, of the same sexual persuasion, and drank willingly does NOT mean sexual assault is impossible. Just because he's talking 36 years later doesn't mean it was impossible. Just because it's someone we admire doesn't mean it was impossible.

It's other things we should look at to decide, not this myth that date rape can't happen.