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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gaby Hinsliff

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?

Students walk across Cornell University's campus at dusk near a glowing Gothic building
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 29 September 2026. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

There were seven men in all, and it lasted almost seven hours.

What followed, according to the woman at the heart of the Cornell University case that has gripped student campuses around the world, was less a sexual encounter than a grim pack-bonding exercise fuelled by booze and ketamine, in which she was passed around like a blow-up doll.

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