It was just more shocking that he was a physician by trade, and so has access to these drugs simply by self-prescribing them. I wonder if his pharmacists ever noticed this (only because I’m hoping to start pharm school–very, very soon), and would think that they’re probably the ones who started raising suspicions. “What, a prescription for rohypnol again?!”

Unfortunately, doctors violate female patients a lot…most of them do not end up on America’s Most Wanted.

particularly true of lesbians…they want to portray themselves as “peaceful and loving”, so lesbian victims of violence are often shushed by their community in order to maintain a “good” reputation for the straight folks.

I remember posting this on a queer Asian e-mail list that I was on, and the silence was deafening, especially since such issues of men doing sexual violence (or hell, even partner violence) against other men just aren’t talked about and are assumed not to exist. I just hope that this guy gets what’s coming to him if what he did is true–whether or not he acted as a physician, or as a date.

But then, it’s not really molestation if I agree to it, right?

Seriously though, I think it’s a big issue because it’s a man doing it to other men. If I remember the original case though, these weren’t so much his patients as they were guys that he took home with them on dates–and then drugged them and took pictures. Either way, it’s fucked up as hell and completely and totally unethical since it was nonconsensual.

As Jen wrote, unfortunately, it’s very common for (straight) male doctors to do it to female patients, and this is one of the first times I’ve seen it where the victims were men. However, it is encouraging to see that there’s less of a stigma for men who are violated in this way (as well as rape victims and other male victims of sexual crimes) to report this to the authorities, and I’m glad the son of a bitch got caught.