Glaring evidence based on statistics depict that alcohol intake significantly contributes to sexual assault

Glaring evidence based on statistics depict that alcohol intake significantly contributes to sexual assault

Glaring evidence based on statistics depict that alcohol intake significantly contributes to sexual assault. Excessive alcohol intakes causes disappearance of normal personality, incapacitates the victim and makes it easier for manipulation of circumstances to commit the assault. The intoxication is a significant sexual assault cause as it has an impact on the behavior as well as the logical reasoning of the habitually drunk person. According to Rape Abuse and Insect National Network (2019), about 55 percent of sexual assaults, the victim was under the influence of alcohol. Indeed, women who sometimes or often drink heavily are more than twice as likely to be victims of alcohol- related sexual assaults as compared those women who rarely or never drink. The study by Rape Abuse and Insect National Network also showed that in 79 percent of the sexual assaults committed, the perpetrators were under alcohol influence. Similar studies confirm that alcohol intoxication plays a paramount role in sexual assaults. In 27 percent of the cases, the bystanders failed to intervene (Leone, Haikalis, Parrott, & DiLillo, 2019). Alcohol impairs the ability of the intoxicated to recognize the early warning signs of a sexual assault. If intoxicated bystanders, do not detect a sexual assault, then they failed to take responsibility to intervening (Leone, Haikalis, Parrott, & DiLillo, 2019).

Additionally, studies asserts females are more than three times more likely to be sexually assaulted on a campus that allows alcohol than on a dry campus (Herbenick et al., 2019). Excessive alcohol intake affects the behavior of college students. Precisely, students fail to have control over their feelings about sex. Alcohol provides them with the confidence to commit unworthy action as their responses justify their reasoning. Conclusively, it follows that alcohol plays extremely important role in influencing factors such as shift of normal personality and loss of control, which leads to sexual assault.