Men's shocking reactions to 'drunk' woman

A woman tells a group of men she's drunk. They tell her to drink more. Photo / YouTube

Footage from a social experiment of men's reactions to a drunk woman has revealed some alarming responses.

Uploaded to YouTube by Spanish rehab clinic Centro Europeo Neurosalus, the clip shows an actress pretending to be drunk as she swigs a bottle of beer on a busy street in downtown Madrid.

Several men approach her but rather than offering help, some suggest she drinks more while others attempt to get close to her.

At the beginning of the video, the director explains, "What you are about to see is something more than just a simple social experiment." He says the situation poses several questions: "What could happen, for example, on a Friday or Saturday night?" He asks if men will help her and tells the viewer, "Let's see what happens," before the footage proceeds.

Standing alone in a short skirt and low cut top, a group of men approach the woman. When she tells them she is lost and has no battery on her phone, they ask where her friends are and offer to help her find them.

When she tells the men she has "drunk too much", their response is that she "hasn't drunk enough". They suggest she "drinks a little more."

Other men approach her, some offering to charge her phone at their hotel, others insist on buying her more alcohol when she tells them she's drunk.

But the most alarming exchange happens when a man, after asking the woman's name and calling her "beautiful", leads her down an alleyway, pins her against the wall and tries to kiss her.

When the woman's colleague intervenes the man claims he knows her and argues to let her go.

At the end of the footage, the video's director reappears to conclude: "Most of you are probably surprised and some of you also disgusted and maybe you are thinking that we have avoided some scenes favouring the most 'juicy' parts, but I am afraid to deceive you.

"It really was the opposite. Those situations full of rudeness and physical abuse were taken away because there is no need to show it in such depth.

"The most disappointing fact is that we had no need to edit the video. Why? Because nobody got close to helping this drunken woman."

- nzherald.co.nz

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