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Q: a Girl's Reaction After a Gang Rape
asked by: Cecilia9 on November 23rd, 2006
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Dear dr

i am a medical student and recently one of my friends asked me a question about seizures that I can't explain. He later showed me where this question was from.

It was from a short porn video that he watched. I watched it later and found this video quite disturbing. I will just briefly describe the girl's symptoms here and hope you can explain why she had such reactions.

Age: looked like in her early twenties
race: asian (japanese)
raped by 4-5 men in a row, she had been crying and seemed to be in pain for all the time. When the 5th men was sexually assaulting her, she appeared quiet, eyes closed, seemed unconscious already. A few seconds later, she threw up white froth(more strictly speaking, white thick fluids got out of her mouth) during when she still looked unconscious; then she started to have seizures, by that time that man has left her body.

I have searched the internet regarding symptoms that victims may have after being raped, but none of the sites mentioned seizures and white sputum. I would really like to find out why and if this indicates something more serious ( death)


although this is just a girl in japan whom I don't really know, I deeply hope she is healthy and well now.


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Cecilia9
replied on November 23rd, 2006
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I m just thinking
could it b simply because she has epilepsy and this traumatic event triggered the attack? Or can this torture cause seizure itself without the person having epilepsy or any neurological disorder in the first place? If so, possibly by what mechanism?

It would be a way that the body uses to try to protect itself, since by overexcitin all the neurons and triggering this seizure, it effectively scared all men away and brought this torture to a stop.

I don't think a seizure reaction of rape victims is something that is much r
ecorded in the medical literature, but doesn't mean it doesn't happen, probably it just goes underreported due to a whole range of factors.

Nwayz, hope someone can help me here

many thanks
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StatusEpilepticus
replied on May 1st, 2007
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You can't really be sure that it was rape that caused the seizure. She could have been on drugs, or been drugged which could have caused the seizure. Drugs, such as cocaine, causing seizures isn't really that rare.
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miasmamma
replied on May 1st, 2007
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StatusEpilepticus wrote:
You can't really be sure that it was rape that caused the seizure. She could have been on drugs, or been drugged which could have caused the seizure. Drugs, such as cocaine, causing seizures isn't really that rare.


I have seen three people have seizures while on cocaine. I have also known a girl that had seizure disorder and while having sex...consintual sex...had one.
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