Bill Cosby accused of Rape - say it ain't so

Yes. And I repeat they are a tranquilizer not a sedative . Lying down can make someone sleep . It was used to enhance sex because of its "hypnotic" qualities.

Methaqualone, brand name Quaalude (sometimes stylized Quāālude[1]) /ˈkweɪluːd/ in the US and Mandrax in the UK, is a central nervous system (CNS) depressant of the quinazolinone class that acts as a sedative and hypnotic.

The sedative–hypnotic activity of methaqualone was first noted by researchers in the 1950s and in 1962 methaqualone itself was patented in the US by Wallace and Tiernan. Its use peaked in the early 1970s as a hypnotic, for the treatment of insomnia, and as a sedative and muscle relaxant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone

Hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos, sleep) or soporific drugs, commonly known as sleeping pills are a class of psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep and to be used in the treatment of insomnia (sleeplessness), or surgical anesthesia.

This group is related to sedatives. Whereas the term sedative describes drugs that serve to calm or relieve anxiety, the term hypnotic generally describes drugs whose main purpose is to initiate, sustain, or lengthen sleep. Because these two functions frequently overlap, and because drugs in this class generally produce dose-dependent effects (ranging from anxiolysis to loss of consciousness) they are often referred to collectively as sedative-hypnotic drugs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotic

How can it be a hypnotic if you are unconscious so there is one obvious contradiction

Hypnotics

Hypnotics are medications that cause sleep or partial loss of consciousness.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002376.htm

Sedation, medically, involves more than just relaxation as you are asserting.

There seems to be little doubt that Cosby may have used combinations or mixtures of meds like Quaalude, and Benadryl, along with alcohol, to cause women to fall asleep or pass out so that he could engage in sexual activity with them

THAT is exactly what I am saying . We are in agreeance . It is not a sedative because it will not put the average person to sleep . They will stay awake but feel as if the sex has a surreal quality which they focus on .

If he gave women enough to knock them out then he not only raped them he seriously threatened their lives .

Does anyone have a source......that Cosby had sex with unconscious women ?

Below is a list of the women who have come forward to accuse Cosby, complete with details from their interviews as well as video, where available. The accusations are in chronological order according to when the women came forward, starting in 2005, not when they said the assaults took place.

Cosby's harangues were often ill-tempered and overly broad, but that they nevertheless spoke a valuable truth: African-American people need to be agents of African-American uplift.

Cosby will never again have the authority to deliver that message. And therein lies one of the great tragedies of this affair. A thing that needs saying has one less voice to say it. Nobody asked him to be a public moralist; he could have just told jokes, collected his pay and gone home. That's what Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld do and it seems to have worked out fine for them.

had Cosby not spent so much time exhorting other people to do right, we might not now be privy to evidence of him doing monstrously wrong.

In his sworn testimony, he admitted to obtaining seven prescriptions for Quaaludes in the 1970s, with the intention of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with.

Cosby's lawyers would not allow him to answer the obvious follow-up question: whether these women were drugged without their knowledge.

Cosby committed a crime, not once, not twice, but many times over