I May Destroy You helped me confront being spiked

"I remember going back to a man's flat on a second date, but then there's a vast nothingness that I've been unable to make sense of since. The morning after, confused and embarrassed by my memory loss, I asked him what had happened. When he said we'd had sex, and I said I couldn't remember it, he seemed offended, as though my amnesia were an accusation."

"An hour later, they were at my house. I was being swabbed, putting my nice underwear into evidence bags, never to be seen again. I tried to answer their questions in a way that didn't seem like I was lying, even though I wasn't. When they asked for his name and address, I wondered out loud what would happen to him. We'll arrest him, they said."

She watched When I May Destroy You before being spiked. She remembers returning to a man's flat on a second date, then experiencing a prolonged blackout she cannot explain. The next morning she questioned him; he said they had sex and appeared offended when she could not remember. Her sister suggested she had been drugged. She noticed a half-empty bottle of wine that he had not drunk and called the police. Officers arrived, took forensic swabs, and bagged her underwear as evidence. She worried that reporting someone she knew would seem dramatic and that her uncertainty would be used against her.

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