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Nintendogs posted...

You got me curious. How bad did they get? I won't force you if you don't wanna tell though.

Let's just say that showing hentai on a big screen is not new perv tech that Zero labbed up.

My first dragon-con I was 17, and it wasn't as huge as it is now. Basically me and my friends (altogether 2 guys and 2 girls) stumbled from hotel room to hotel room drinking sketchy cocktails from neckbeards. People who run parties essentially are Girls Gone Wilding all over the place: asking girls to flash/kiss them for drinks. Widespread use of ecstasy, acid, molly, coke, weed. Of course we loved it at the time, but we were idiots: we were lucky. There are lots of stories out there of roofied drinks and certain parties to "avoid."

But thinking back it was super messed up that there were literally 16 year olds getting hit on by 30 year olds in that kind of environment. I mean there are literally lolita parties at some of these cons (maybe not Dragon Con, but Anime Atlanta had one for sure). Some of the worst things i personally witnessed were dudes taking pics with passed out girls while touching them, dudes flashing people, and multiple fights.

The girls I was with that night and those I talked to in following years (I haven't gone in five years or more, and I pretty much quit going to parties a few years before that) have told me specific instances of grooming/sexual aggression from pseudo-famous people at these parties, but I'm not going to share them as they're not my stories.

For many who go to cons/vg tourneys, "getting laid" is as much a part of the experience as anything else. Take people who have been social outcasts their whole lives who suddenly achieve a small level of "fame," add young people and alcohol, and you have the recipe for assault.