Urban Legend Zeitgeist: Progesterex: Date Rape Drug

Synopsis	Villains are using a drug called 'Progesterex' to render their victims helpless and then rape them. Progesterex also has the side effect of sterilizing the victims. See the email here.
Is it true?	No. It is a hoax.
Why?	There is no drug called 'Progesterex.'
When?	November 1999
Comments	Most of these 'scarelore' emails are well intentioned, if often misguided. This one, however, is different. The phenomena of date rape and use of drugs in date rape is real enough, why invent a ficticious drug with dire side effects?
See also	"PROGESTEREX": HORSE AND HUMAN STERILIZER, DATE RAPE DRUG, OR URBAN LEGEND? from Columbia University's Health Education Program Does Progesterex Exist? from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy Virtual Drug Information Center Date Rape Panic from the Village Voice Date rape drug scare an e-mail hoax from U-Wire Progesterex: the New Date Rape Drug from About.com Progesterex or Con from the Urban Legends Reference Pages

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