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Bill cosby wants to mentor me. you show up here, do a line reading and in many cases they said their drinks were drugged, they woke up naked or during a rape. so just those stories and also the way the women thought about what happened to them. a lot of the incidents happened in the '60s and '70s when there wasn't the vocabulary to talk about it. date rape had not been coined. no one knew acquaintance rape. they felt horrible. many blamed themselves. they told people but never thought of coming forward. they didn't think of it as rape. they thought, you know, a night gone very badly with a fam...

Accusers, quotes from them, what they have to say, but even more than that it goes into really an expose about sexual assault and rape as it has evolved through the years because 1960s are when the earliest accusations of sexual assault, the latest 2001 20 -- one 2008. bill cosby has never been charged or convicted of any crime at all of sexual assault, but one thing that's interesting, we have a quote from joan tarshis from this article who you have seen on cnn many times. she says, quote, i didn't realize that i had been raped back then. rape was done in an alleyway with somebody holding a k...

But this sort of sad sisterhood that's emerged among the alleged survivors of these assaults. >> i think even just knowing there were other people out there made it easier for these women. for years they hadn't even had language to talk about them. date rape as the term didn't exist in the 60s and 70s. and a lot of theme used language of having bottled it up inside and it all came flooding out and they were able to do that together. that was major for them. >> to that end, jess. we live in a country in which 68% of sexual assaults are not reported to the police. and 98% of rapists will never s...

People account whobl love, cherish and care about each other. >> then you have the additional issue of who monitors this activity. the practical reality of this issue of consent, who decides when you're no longer able to give consent? a doctor, law enforcement, a judge? and then for nursing homes, the poor nursing homes how are they supposed to monitor what's going on with the patients and their loved ones? there's a privacy aspect to this as well. >> what kind of doctors are qualified to determine if someone can't consent? >> that's right. that's why what you pointed out earlier it's importan...

>> i want to disagree with that gavin said. there are 100,000 women a year sexually assaulted. date rape means you don't say no. you don't say -- a woman gets to say no at the beginning, the middle -- >> he wasn't saying. that. he disagreed with the numbers. >> it's 100,000 a year, college students. the reason is because alcohol is the number one date rape drug. alcohol is number one. >> how many women are in college every year? got to be in the millions, right? >> so it's not one in four. >> okay. >> but -- >> that was his point. no one is disputing that rape is real. >> 100,000 is a big numb...