A few weekends ago I was happily bobbing along in the bubble, chatting with a friend at a party. I mentioned a particular male friend I had been with the previous weekend. The girl I was chatting with abruptly stopped responding. With a dead look on her face, she quietly said, You know, he raped me a few weeks ago.
It is a rule of capitalist economies that businesses are bought and sold. Most of these transactions occur on such a small level that they do not merit national news.