ABSTRACT

For experts in sexual assault and its investigation, drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) turns many preconceived generalizations about crimes and offenders upside down. DFSA is defined as the use of an agent, legal or illegal, to maneuver an unsuspecting and otherwise nonconsenting person to sex or to an otherwise psychosexually gratifying act. Not all drug-facilitated sex assaults end in rape; the person manipulated, however, is unmistakably victimized by a person who absolutely exploits and calculatedly so.