Hate to inform anyone unaware, but taking advantage of drunk & high girls, virgin or not, was the way of the world in the 70s and 80s. It wasn't until the late 80s when Wesleyan University in the States proposed both parties must overtly agree to every step of a seduction. I did hear the phrase "date rape" in 1983, from someone going to Wesleyan, but the use was so rare I specifically recall it, along with notable accused alums who got away with it. By the mid-late 80s it made its way to other selective liberal arts colleges with national student bodies.
If you recall Polanski's "Tess," remember the introduction "She was born into a world where they called it seduction, not rape." We've come a long way since Hardy wrote "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" in 1891. Even a long way since I attempted to file sexual assault charges in 1993, when the police wouldn't take a report because I let him into the house (before a scheduled date, the same way I would have gotten into his car if he hadn't come into the house first).
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