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->''"By its very nature, rape displays a "[[CompleteMonster total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy]]" of the victim; 'short of homicide, [it is] the "[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil ultimate violation of self]].'" ''Coker v. Georgia'', 433 U.S. 584, 597, 603 (1977). Along with other forms of sexual assault, it belongs to that class of indignities against the person that cannot ever be fully righted, and that diminishes all humanity."''\\
-- ''Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles'', 54 Cal.3d 202,222 (1991)

Rape is one of the more difficult subjects to handle in a work of fiction, not least because (unlike, say, [[CaptainObvious murder]]) there is a chance that one of the work's readers has experienced this crime first-hand. For the most part, the tropes that have been collected here describe less sensitive and sometimes [[ValuesDissonance downright backwards]] depictions of rape.

[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil For obvious reasons]], many of these tropes are also subtropes of MoralEventHorizon.
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!!Tropes
[[index]]
* AliensMadeThemDoIt
* AllAbusersAreMale
* AllMenAreRapists
* AnalProbing
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe
* AttemptedRape
* BastardGirlfriend
* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe
* BedTrick - because someone is deceived into having sex, the sex is nonconsensual.
* BlackComedyRape
* ButLiquorIsQuicker - see DateRape below.
* ChastityDagger
* ChildByRape
* DateRape
* DateRapeAverted
* DefiledForever
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale
* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi
* DroitDuSeigneur
* DudeShesLikeInAComa
* FalseRapeAccusation
* FateWorseThanDeath
* GratuitousRape
* HonorRelatedAbuse
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty
* ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt
* LovePotion
* MaritalRapeLicense
* MateOrDie
* MedicalRapeAndImpregnate
* MemeticMolester
* MindRape
* MurderersAreRapists
* NearRapeExperience
* {{Netorare}}
* OldManMarryingAChild
* PedophilePriest
* PostRapeTaunt
* PrisonRape
* RapeAndRevenge
* RapeAndSwitch
* RapeAsBackstory
** ChildByRape
* RapeAsDrama
* RapeAsRedemption
* RapeByProxy
* RapeDiscretionShot
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* RapeLeadsToInsanity
* RapePillageAndBurn
* RomanticizedAbuse
* ScarpiaUltimatum
* SexSlave
* SexualExtortion
* SlippingAMickey - This trope is not always associated with rape, but it often is.
* TheWomenAreSafeWithUs
* YoureNotMyType
* YouWouldMakeAGreatModel
[[/index]]
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** DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale

* VictimFallsForRapist

* AbusivelySexy

->''"By its very nature, rape displays a "[[CompleteMonster total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy]]" of the victim; 'short of homicide, [it is] the "[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil ultimate violation of self]].'" ''Coker v. Georgia'', 433 U.S. 584, 597, 603 (1977). Along with other forms of sexual assault, it belongs to that class of indignities against the person that cannot ever be fully righted, and that diminishes all humanity."''
-->--''Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles'', 54 Cal.3d 202,222 (1991)

!!Tropes:

For obvious reasons, many of these tropes are also subtropes of MoralEventHorizon.

* RapeStockholmSyndrome

* NaughtyTentacles

->''"By its very nature, rape displays a "[[CompleteMonster total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy]]" of the victim; 'short of homicide, [it is] the "[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil ultimate violation of self]].'" ''Coker v. Georgia'', 433 U.S. 584, 597, 603 (1977). Along with other forms of sexual assault, it belongs to that class of indignities against the person that cannot ever be fully righted, and that diminishes all humanity."''
-->--''Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles'', 54 Cal.3d 202,222 (1991)

Rape is one of the more difficult subjects to handle in a work of fiction, not least because (unlike, say, [[CaptainObvious murder]]) there is a chance that one of the work's readers has experienced this crime first-hand. For the most part, the tropes that have been collected here describe less sensitive and sometimes [[ValuesDissonance downright backwards]] depictions of rape.

For obvious reasons, many of these tropes are also subtropes of MoralEventHorizon.
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!!Tropes:
[[index]]
* AbusivelySexy
* AliensMadeThemDoIt
* AllAbusersAreMale
* AllMenAreRapists
* AnalProbing
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe
* AttemptedRape
* BastardGirlfriend
* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe
* BedTrick - because someone is deceived into having sex, the sex is nonconsensual.
* BlackComedyRape
** DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale
* ButLiquorIsQuicker - see DateRape below.
* ChildByRape
* DateRape
* DateRapeAverted
* DefiledForever
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale
* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi
* DroitDuSeigneur
* DudeShesLikeInAComa
* FalseRapeAccusation
* FateWorseThanDeath
* GratuitousRape
* HonorRelatedAbuse
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty
* ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt
* LovePotion
* MaritalRapeLicense
* MateOrDie
* MedicalRapeAndImpregnate
* MemeticMolester
* MindRape
* MurderersAreRapists
* NaughtyTentacles
* NearRapeExperience
* {{Netorare}}
* OldManMarryingAChild
* PedophilePriest
* PostRapeTaunt
* PrisonRape
* RapeAndRevenge
* RapeAndSwitch
* RapeAsBackstory
** ChildByRape
* RapeAsDrama
* RapeAsRedemption
* RapeByProxy
* RapeDiscretionShot
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* RapeLeadsToInsanity
* RapePillageAndBurn
* RapeStockholmSyndrome
* ScarpiaUltimatum
* SexSlave
* SexualExtortion
* SlippingAMickey - This trope is not always associated with rape, but it often is.
* TheWomenAreSafeWithUs
* YoureNotMyType
* YouWouldMakeAGreatModel
[[/index]]
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''... [[INeedAFreakingDrink I need a drink]] [[ShowerOfAngst and a shower...]]''
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->''"By its very nature, rape displays a "[[CompleteMonster total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy]]" of the victim; 'short of homicide, [it is] the "[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil ultimate violation of self]].'" ''Coker v. Georgia'', 433 U.S. 584, 597, 603 (1977). Along with other forms of sexual assault, it belongs to that class of indignities against the person that cannot ever be fully righted, and that diminishes all humanity."''
-->--''Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles'', 54 Cal.3d 202,222 (1991)

Rape is one of the more difficult subjects to handle in a work of fiction, not least because (unlike, say, [[CaptainObvious murder]]) there is a chance that one of the work's readers has experienced this crime first-hand. For the most part, the tropes that have been collected here describe less sensitive and sometimes [[ValuesDissonance downright backwards]] depictions of rape.

For obvious reasons, many of these tropes are also subtropes of MoralEventHorizon.
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!!Tropes:
[[index]]
* AbusivelySexy
* AliensMadeThemDoIt
* AllAbusersAreMale
* AllMenAreRapists
* AnalProbing
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe
* AttemptedRape
* BastardGirlfriend
* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe
* BedTrick - because someone is deceived into having sex, the sex is nonconsensual.
* BlackComedyRape
** DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale
* ButLiquorIsQuicker - see DateRape below.
* ChildByRape
* DateRape
* DateRapeAverted
* DefiledForever
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale
* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi
* DroitDuSeigneur
* DudeShesLikeInAComa
* FalseRapeAccusation
* FateWorseThanDeath
* GratuitousRape
* HonorRelatedAbuse
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty
* ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt
* LovePotion
* MaritalRapeLicense
* MateOrDie
* MedicalRapeAndImpregnate
* MemeticMolester
* MindRape
* MurderersAreRapists
* NaughtyTentacles
* NearRapeExperience
* {{Netorare}}
* OldManMarryingAChild
* PedophilePriest
* PostRapeTaunt
* PrisonRape
* RapeAndRevenge
* RapeAndSwitch
* RapeAsBackstory
** ChildByRape
* RapeAsDrama
* RapeAsRedemption
* RapeByProxy
* RapeDiscretionShot
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* RapeLeadsToInsanity
* RapePillageAndBurn
* RapeStockholmSyndrome
* ScarpiaUltimatum
* SexSlave
* SexualExtortion
* SlippingAMickey - This trope is not always associated with rape, but it often is.
* TheWomenAreSafeWithUs
* YoureNotMyType
* YouWouldMakeAGreatModel
[[/index]]
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''... [[INeedAFreakingDrink I need a drink]] [[ShowerOfAngst and a shower...]]''
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* RapeAndRevenge

!''Tropes:'''

->By its very nature, rape displays a "[[CompleteMonster total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy]]" of the victim; 'short of homicide, [it is] the "[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil ultimate violation of self]].'" ''Coker v. Georgia'', 433 U.S. 584, 597, 603 (1977). Along with other forms of sexual assault, it belongs to that class of indignities against the person that cannot ever be fully righted, and that diminishes all humanity.
->- ''Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles'', 54 Cal.3d 202,222 (1991)

'''Tropes:'''

* SymbolicRape

* RapeAsComedy
** DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale

* RapeIsLove

** RapeIsTheNewDeadParents

* IShowedHerWhatARealManIs

* AbusivelySexyWoman

** RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale

* RapeIsOKWhenItIsSciFi

* RapeIsOkayIfItsDivineOnMortal
* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale
* RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnFemale