Mary P. Koss

Right.

Mary Koss, who is the psychologist who first studied familiar sexual violence.

Sexual violence is perpetrated primarily by people we know, perpetrated by intimate acquaintances, friends, family members.

Only 20 to 10 percent of sexual violence comes from that mythical stranger that jumps out of the bushes.

Josh, you've also found there doesn't seem to be a lot of research into ketamine's role in sexual assault cases, right?

So I talked to a number of people, but one of the people that I talked to who is very, very well-versed in this is, is Mary Koss.

She's at the University of Arizona.

She's a researcher.

And then a subset of the hallucinogenic drugs are disassociative drugs, and those are the ones like, uh, ketamine and PCP that can produce a catatonic state.

So in that regard, it, it's a very, very strong drug, potentially very, very serious with regard to being a facilitator of sexual assault and, and rape.

But as Mary Koss told me, she said, quote, "There's not, just not that much on ketamine plus sexual assault."

How has Cornell responded to inquiries about how it's been dealing with the distribution of ketamine on campus?

We see that the rates of sexual violence tend to be quite high, particularly among young people, on college campuses, in the military.

I mean, Mary Koss talked about one in four women in the 1970s experiencing attempted or completed sexual assault.

That number hasn't changed all that much today.

Uh, we're really fortunate at the Kinsey Institute, um, my colleague Zoe Peterson, who's one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of sexual aggression, we have really invested as an organization in research on sexual violence and assault.

Um, and you know, I'd also like to know the details of that survey, because the way the general number, uh, was the first time we, that it came out, Ms.

Magazine published this survey from a Arizona, uh, state university researcher, Mary Koss, that came up with the one in four statistic that was so shocking.

And the way she did it, she found that if you ask females directly, "Were you raped?" uh, they say no.

And so what she said, "Well, I'm gonna ask a series of questions.

Very few women said they had been raped.

So Miss Magazine commissioned University of Arizona public health professor Mary Koss to develop a different way of measuring the prevalence of rape.

Rather than asking female students about rape per se, costs asked them if they had experienced actions that she then classified as rape she set up the classification asked them what they experienced and and she termed it rape this produced the one in four college uh one in four women at college have been raped statistic that has been bandied about ever since junk science University of California, Berkeley social welfare officer, Neil Gilbert, Neil Gilbert pointed out that this survey was highly ambiguous, but the more powerful refutation of causes research came from her own subjects.

73% of the women whom she characterized as rape victims said they hadn't been raped.