While state legislatures have enacted laws that remove men's licence to rape women with whom they share marital or established relationships, our understanding of whether this resulted in effectively changing the social, cultural and legal response to sexual violence by male intimate partners is surprisingly limited. Reports from Australian women, and research findings overall, suggest...

Alexandra Neame looks at current media representations of drink spiking including victim-blaming stereotypes and whether drink spiking is an epidemic or an urban myth. Drink spiking is considered within the broader context of drug and alcohol facilitated sexual assault, and awareness and prevention approaches that treat drugs and alcohol as weapons are discussed.