This is very interesting like most of your pieces.

I played high school baseball with Bob (not his real name). He was a pitcher. Very talented. A guy who could definitely play college ball. Total jock and very fit. Nice guy and we got along great and spent a lot of time together as I was the first baseman (being a lefty has advantages in baseball!), and we hung out with another friend on the drill team. We lost touch after high school when we went off to college.

I found out at our ten-year HS reunion that he did time for rape. I heard second hand he admitted to his crime and was very sorry for it, but I never found out the details. Maybe Bob got fat and then rejected. Or injured and bitter. Or stayed fit and is the exception that proves the rule of the story. I'm sure he's not the only person I've known who has raped someone, just the only one I know who did time for it.

Let's get some history straight: 1992 we also elected a president who had VERY credible rape allegations against him. So credible that the woman was smeared and shamed and ended up switching parties because noone in her own party would support her. Juanita Broddrick came back to haunt Bill Clinton. As with other horrilble behavior (e.g. "slut shaming") from the Clinton years, rape culture at the highest political levels became an accepted part of the US political landscape. So when a total mysognistic POS like Trump arrived on the scene, his horrendous behavior was just "par for the course" (Trump is known to cheat at golf, too).