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Rape Is Ok When It Is Female On Male
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Rape is a cruel and evil act, beyond kicking the dog or any of the most villainous acts on TV. Except when they fall in love with the rapist, of course.
Well, there is one other exception: when the victim is a man, and the attacker is a woman. There are a few reasons for this. Upon hearing about it, some men would think, "Well, what's the problem?" The male being raped is sometimes depicted as "allowing it" and so does not lose much of his manliness or dominance. This, along with the fact that many males do not perceive being raped by an attractive woman as necessarily a bad thing (combined with All Men Are Perverts), makes this trope more acceptable in their eyes.
And when a man is truly victimized, there is a strong stigma about it that would stop them from treating it as an attack. Another part of what causes this reaction is that a man who can't fend off a woman is seen as much more pathetic than the reverse— even when the man is bound, incapacitated, or held at gunpoint. There is also a popular misconception that a man can't achieve the necessary arousal for sexual functions without at least semi-conscious consent and engagement (the old "if he was able to, he wanted to" canard) — though there were always ways around this, and the easy availability of anti-dysfunction drugs nowadays undermines it even more.
The depiction is rare on TV, but the few cases when it does happen are notable for that very reason. Most examples are from comedies, backing up the idea that most people find the concept that a man can be raped by a woman ridiculous. Of course in the real world this is not funny. Relatedly, compare the treatment of a man waking up in bed with an ugly woman after a night of getting drunk with the treatment of a woman who sleeps with a man (attractive or otherwise) in a similar situation.
For a trope that sufferers a similar attitude, see Hot For Student — in many people's eyes, the fact that the adult is female, young and attractive, also makes it okay. Then again, people in general are just stupid. The infamous "Where were these teachers when I went to school?!" comment sums this up. (Answer: they still weren't interested in the Audio-Visual squad).
Unfortunately, this is also true in real life. Men raped by women face a far higher stigma than women raped by men; very few tell the police or anyone else. Women commit about a quarter of child sex abuse; a study found that 86% of their victims were not believed when they told someone a woman had molested them.
Compare Rape Is Funny When It Is Male On Male, Rape As Comedy, and Rape Is Okay If Its Divine On Mortal. Closely related to (if not a direct by-product of) Its Not Rape If You Enjoyed It, since the common assumption is that men always enjoy sex. The existence of this trope in a lot of religion and mythology (particularly Greek) makes it Older Than Dirt.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- Louise's "punishments" of Saitou in Zero No Tsukaima are very reminiscent of S&M whipping, but it's all played up as comedy. After all, Louise is a Tsundere and Saitou is a pervert; we're supposed to laugh.
- Of course, early on in the novels, she takes it too far and beats him in class after a severe beating the night before. The general atmosphere is basically "Holy crap— what the hell is wrong with you!?"
- Girls Bravo: Constantly attempted by Lisa whenever she's around Yukinari.
- Completely inverted in Blood+ with Diva's rape of Riku.
- The perpetrator, on the other hand, arguably treats it as a gift or perhaps love. Given that she is Axe Crazy and just plain nuts, it might be part of a subversion or perhaps even a deconstruction of the trope.
- And poor Riku? He was downright stoned after that. Literally.
- Not in the fandom. On any number of forums, bring up Blood+ and there will inevitably be comments along the lines of, "Lucky Riku, at least he got to bang a hot chick before he bit it." There's even a modest amount of support for the Diva/Riku ship and a decent number of Alternate Universe Fics that extrapolate this relationship to... further rape.
- Pucca... loves Garu... he's a pretty boy! Not as extreme since Pucca is 11 years old and Garu is 12 and the series is for kids, meaning she's limited to chasing him around and kissing him against his wishes, but the Double Standard is still obvious.
- This trope is played with in one episode. Pucca manages to pull the moon closer to Earth with a rope and use its romantic properties to make Garu fall in love with her, turning Garu into a love obsessed fan. However, this turns Pucca into the annoyed receiver, who's unable to do her job or have any time to herself. It seems as though this would probably teach Pucca a lesson about self-control, but instead she just sends the moon back and restores the natural order. Though after this, it seems that the regulars are starting to realize what Pucca is doing is just weird.
- Suzumiya Haruhi: In a fan-made gender bender version of the light novels, Haruki threatened the Computer Club President with blackmail. Kyonko and Mitsuuru being the accessories for blackmail. Double surversion: Mitsuuru was not raped.
Haruki: "I'll just say the whole club gang-raped him!"
Computer Club President: "T-that's stupid! Girls can't rape guys!"
Haruki: "Really now?" Haruki smiled. "Let me tell you a story. A story of a poor, innocent upperclassman, who had been passing through this hallway, who happened upon a group of sick, depraved females. These women, they decided to entice him into their den of evil with candy, and other such sweets. But lo! When he entered, he was set upon, by these cruel women, who then proceeded to touch him in all sorts of uncomfortable places! But I, Supremely Manly Commander of the SOS Brigade, arrived in the nick of time, and managed to obtain evidence as to their crimes before rescuing the hapless upperclassman! Behold, for I am now a Hero!"
- Gakuen Ouji anyone? It's the fate of every boy who enters the school. Except it's not by just one girl, it's the entire female portion of the student body (which vastly outnumbers the male).
- Azusa's first sight of the "horrors" of his school is when he hears someone scream "Somebody please help me!!", only to run and find a boy practically naked surrounded by girls. They run off, he looks down to see the boy in tears, his reaction? "What did you do to get harrassed by those girls?". As soon as he looks up he sees all the girls staring at him. Hmmm...wonder whose next?
- I don't even know if it's rape per se so much as institutionalized prostitution, everyone knows about it and just about everyone uses it. With protection of course, they've got the drill down pat. Let's not forget they even have a ceremony for it.
- And might I mention they are some very twisted girls. They're passing notes in class, perfectly normal. Azusa manages to get a hold the note only to find them discussing how long it will take to break him.
- In the final arc of Ranma 1/2, Shampoo takes advantage of the fact that Akane is helpless and in her control to force Ranma to sleep with her (and she was planning to kill him afterwards.) Surprisingly, since the series had played the reverse for laughs (involving female Ranma's mishaps) this was played seriously... until the people in the next room started eavesdropping and completely misunderstood what was going on.
- Of course, Shampoo was also Brainwashed And Crazy at the time (or, at the very least, was suffering More Than Mind Control,) and thus might not be entirely at fault for going beyond her Moral Event Horizon.
- No, the entire point was that Shampoo was entirely in character beyond being forced to obey Kiima's commands to attack Ranma. However, she simultaneously wanted to save Ranma by enslaving him in the same manner but to herself/reduce him to a humiliated non-threat, and wanted some sex in return for saving Akane. It's definitely not beyond her moral event horizon. She's tried to use permanent love-inducing pills in her normal state.
- This is the cornerstone of many, many h-manga, such as Boy Soprano, where Chick Magnet and Cute Shotaro Boy Akira is taken advantage of sexually by literally just about every girl he meets, including his adoptive mother and sister. It doesn't exactly help that he's a Wholesome Crossdresser who attends an all-girl school. In fact, this even extends to physical abuse, where his sister forces him to participate in her "Bondage club" and his teacher smacks him around because his screaming arouses her. Eventually, a school play is staged just so the entire class can take turns having sex with him, you guessed it, explicitly against his will.
- There's a particular ''AzumangaDaioh'' h-doujin. This troper isn't aware of a translation or even if the English title under which it's circulated is an accurate translation of the Japanese title, but it's rather appropriately known as Sakaki Raeps (sic) Yoshida. He initially tries to run away from her, but of course, that doesn't work...
- Oh, and let's not forget classics like Sei So Tsui Dan Sha, where Cute Shotaro Boy Ryu is constantly harassed by a Girl Posse secretly harboring a deep crush on him (oh, and eventually they kind of steal his penis. It... It Makes Sense In Context, I swear), or Rush Hour XXX, where a middle school boy accidentally gets on a women's only car on the train ride home and gets gangbanged like you wouldn't believe.
- Or, for that matter, Answer Me, My Heart. The main character is a bitter Yandere who is utterly obsessed with a certain boy who frankly couldn't care less about her. It's just that she gets off on him struggling to get her away from him and the sounds he makes when she dominates him... so much so that eventually she accidentally suffocates him during sex.
- And Kan, where a boy caught sneaking into the girls' locker room on a dare is raped by the entire softball team. Repeatedly. His hands were tied behind his back and everything. Later, they kidnapped him, sneaking him into softball camp inside a trunk. They're also all completely in love with him; All of the girls have sex with him mainly in hopes of becoming pregnant so he'll have to be with them alone. Eventually, the softball coach and his own sister get in on the act. Oh, and by the end, he gets expelled after they get caught ravishing him at school. Yes, the fact that he really, really doesn't want, like, any of this to be happening is played completely for comedy.
- Just... Secret Plot. Basically the entire freaking thing is about two teachers forcing themselves on students. Especially the PE teacher, who forced a boy to have sex with her or she'd fail him.
- Also, you're welcome for telling you about all those. Just saying.
- Dare I add to the list? Culittle XX, a Guilty Gear h-doujin, is about everyone's favorite Wholesome Crossdresser Bridget getting you-know-what'd by Millia and her Prehensile Hair.
- On the more light-hearted side, there's Your Smiling Face, in which Cute Shotaro Boy (as you might have noticed, this isn't an uncommon occurrence for characters of this type) Hiro's Tall, Dark, and Emotionless childhood friend Sakiko confesses her feelings for him, breast-smothers him, puts the moves on him, and allows him to screw her. Just when Hiro thinks he's done, Sakiko forces herself on top of him for a second wind. It ends happily, with Sakiko finally letting down her stoic facade in front of Hiro.
- Tsukasa Blog has the titular blogger, a total Yandere (complete with crazy eyes), going at it on a guy she calls "Onii-chan" and may or may not be her brother.
- Why Can't Miss Pervert Find Love?, period. Her blatant, constant sexual assault of the boy she's been stalking for years is played as only slightly creepy or overly forward and ultimately tolerable.
- The same boy is later drugged and raped by an older woman (who was the girl's mentor of sorts) while the title girl watches from outside. Her action, however, was portrayed as much more sinister and nasty.
- Let's not forget Boy's Empire, a 9-part h-manga in which Makoto Tamura is molested by (in order) his sister's friend, his girlfriend, his sister, two of his classmates, his teacher, his mom, his best friend (not canon, just in fan art) and his girlfriend's mom. Not only that, but in volumes 8 and 9, he gets his girlfriend, mom, and sister pregnant, and all three of them keep and have his children, even though he's not even in middle school.
- The h-manga Secret Journey, based loosely on the classic Journey To The West, consists mainly of a well-endowed Cute Shotaro Boy priest encountering voluptuous female demons before subsequently being tied up, stripped naked, and raped by each of them. They each decide to follow him as students, and take every opportunity they can to jump him.
- Let's face it: if one of the characters in a Hentai work plays the role of a Cute Shotaro Boy, he will inevitably get raped by...any female available. Because he is weak and helpless, therefore unable to resist their advances.
- This is the prevailing theme in the work of mangaka Nitta Jun (who is a woman herself), and in literally every case we're meant to be on the woman's side. To be fair, it's hot.
- In Girls Saurus, Shingo, who is deeply afraid of women after various bad encounters with them, is eventually cornered by a porn movie director who had been looking at his sister for a part. In order to save his sister, Shingo would have to star in a movie where he gets raped by many women. While the idea is treated with horror and revulsion by him at first, it's mostly Played For Laughs, and when he reluctantly accepts, his friends, all of them girls, all volunteer to do the scene with him.
- Practically everywhere he goes, Shingo gets jumped by extremely forward girls. The extreme case has to be when he accidentally compliments his near-retirement literature teacher for being "his ideal woman" (as she's so shriveled up that she's got no sexuality to speak of). The next day, it turns out that she took his words to heart and had a second sexual awakening, dropping decades off her physical age and becoming gorgeous. And she's intent on rewarding him for it by having him be her first, and threatening with suicide (and then double suicide) when he refuses. She changes her mind when the rest of the male students all assure her they desire her, regardless of how old she really is.
- Also, Shingo's close male friends have no understanding whatsoever of his distress over all the female attention he gets.
- In the hentai anime Magical Twilight, two girls from an otherworldly magical academy are sent to bring the male protagonist happiness as their graduation exam. Girl one is a sweet love interest, but girl two is so used to sleeping her way to good grades that she immediately decides having sex with him will seal the deal... even though he's strongly put off by her extreme forwardness. When another girl from another academy shows up, tasked with killing him as an exam, girl one tries to fend off the assassin... while girl two drags him into the bathroom, ties him to the toilet, and tries to mount him. Because she thinks it'll make him happy. Yeesh.
- Really, the entire plot of Kanokon is Unlucky Everydude Ordinary High School Student Cute Shotaro Boy human unwittingly transferring to a school for Yokai who can't keep up The Masquerade, where he ends up acquiring an Unwanted Harem of Lovable Sex Maniac Yokai women who are Really Seven Hundred Years Old almost entirely due to his being a Weirdness Magnet. Hilarity Ensues, and by that I mean Rape As Comedy.
- Kurogane Pukapuka Tai's seemingly sole heterosexual woman, gunnery officer Obama Mifuyu, seems to have this attitude to "seduction", and a taste verging on Shotacon besides.
- In Onihime VS, the closest thing to an actual love interest the main character has is the bully who sexually assaults him on a daily basis, culminating in attempting straight-up rape after cornering him in the athletic supply closet. We're supposed to be rooting for her to end up with him, though to be fair, the other girls competing to win his heart are literally competing for his heart, the blood pumping organ in his chest, so that they can eat it.
- Well to really be fair, that only happens in chapter 1 and she was the Bully until that point and when it happens she is "not herself" as she is possessed, in short ... a bad example of this trope.
- This trope occurs in the manga Hen where the female main character, Chizuru rapes a guy when he's unconscious. Since she's the main character, the tone of the story indicates that we're still supposed to root for her. Chizuru has attempted rapes against her in the plot although those rapists aren't portrayed sympathetically at all.
- Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun's main character, Shungo Ninomiya, is more or less completely uninterested in girls, and unwilling to fight them off, so the girls in his class love to tease him, including kidnapping and tying him down so he can't get away. While not rape, it's pretty darned close — especially if you consider the gender swapped alternate — and also sets up the later subversion, that is...
- Crosses the line when Reika, the girl whom the main character is oblivious about, snaps, causing her alternate, more assertive and less moral personality to take command, who promptly lures Shungo to a secluded spot, wherein she ties him down and attempts to rape him for real.
- Done in the anime Speed Grapher, where the hero Saiga is run over by Inspector Ginza. This leaves Saiga unconscious, allowing Ginza to take him to her apartment and invoke this trope. Thing is, this is never really elaborated on to explain what a messed up person Ginza is. Ginza never admits her guilt, and Saiga isn't the least bit curious as to what happened when he was unconscious. The anime seems to play it off more like fanservice than anything else.
- The original manga of Ah My Goddess actually introduces Urd with this sentiment. Upon her arrival, she is more than a little baffled at Keiichi and Belldandy's lack of... physical drive. Her attempts to "remedy" this culminate in trying to make Keiichi have sex with her through a combination of straightforward seduction, lies, and psychically pressuring his mind to give in. While Keiichi's devotion to Belldandy pulls him through, the fact that she lied to get him into bed is played up over the fact that she just tried to rape him, which is portrayed as little more than naughty and mischievous.
- Hinted at in Angel Sanctuary as at least part of the reason Raphael's reputation was so utterly destroyed after his then-subordinate Belial raped him while in his own office. Public opinion was that he was nothing more than a lech that had wanted or even been a willing participant. Rather than denying it, he instead refashions himself into the very Kavorka Man people perceived him as.
- While not rape in sexual terms, this trope is certainly invoked in the short fantasy manga Monster Collection, featuring a female sorceress, a male thief, and a female lamia. The lamia needs human blood, and takes a liking to the taste of the young thief's blood. Of course, he doesn't like being a human drink box, so the lamia decides to just take it by force
 . One scene, after she has attacked him, has her smoking with a nasty grin while the boy weeps in the corner.
Comic Books
- In comics: when Shado takes advantage of an injured, poisoned, and delirious Green Arrow, Oliver Queen (who is so far gone that he thinks she is his love interest Dinah Lance, aka Black Canary), it is usually not seen as okay... but as an instance of his infidelity. Most characters tend to not consider Shado to blame as much as Ollie, though more recently Dinah has been seen jumping to his defense in these instances (the reaction of most characters can be justified, in that they likely don't know the details of the encounter).
- Hell, most readers don't know the details of the encounter. Considering Ollie's track record for being unable to keep his arrow in his quiver, the assumption that the thing between him and Shado being consensual is a pretty understandable one if you haven't actually seen the story in question.
- Interestingly, when Ollie first puzzles it out, he is not shown to be at all upset about it. He just questions whether Shado's son is his own.
- Nightwing Issue #93 in which Tarantula had shot and supposedly killed a villain that threatened Nightwing then went to find the rather shaken hero, and proceeded to have sex with him, even though he was whispering "No" and "Get away from me", they were still treated like an item until near the run of Devin Grayson's run. Several readers disagreed with the unspoken idea that it was sex to help pull Dick together and treated it like outright rape, or at the least taking advantage of someone who is not completely in his right mind.
- Well, considering that Devin Grayson (yes, she picked the name herself) is basically what happens when you let the worst sort of fan actually work in the industry, and that it's pretty obvious who Tarantula is supposed to be, then you understand why the phrase "Devin Grayson raped Nightwing" has multiple meanings.
- Just how pervasive this trope is shows in the fact that Gail Simone, the woman who helped bring the whole Stuffed Into The Fridge thing as heinous into the public consciousness, is apparently good friends with Devin Grayson and will show up on internet forums to defend her. Double Standard much?
- According to Ms Grayson, it wasn't rape, it was "unconsentual sex". Apparently there is a difference.
- For one thing, "rape" is actually a word.
- In an issue of Teen Titans, Mirage shapeshifts into the form of Starfire and sleeps with Nightwing, who doesn't realize she isn't his girlfriend until after the fact. This is used as a device to put stress on his relationship with Starfire, but the team largely underreacts to Mirage's actions, and even mock him after they learn about it.
- Raven's use of demon magic to have non-consensual psychic sex with Nightwing in a series of ultra-vivid shared dreams suggests that Mind Rape Is Ok When It Is Female On Male, too; they remain good friends even after he finds her out.
- Subverted in Starman, where an unconscious Jack is raped (offpanel) by the new (female) Mist. This results in a son, who she plans to raise as Jack's rival. However he seemed less angry about the rape than that he would not know the product of it.
- A short story from the comic Flinch #14 features a man being constantly assailed throughout the day by women who want to have sex with him. While he enjoys it at first, he begins to be a bit more resistant to their advances as the day goes on and it goes from consensual to obvious rape. It turns out that his friend had signed him up for a Candid Camera show which makes people's wishes come true for a day, with his wish being that the world was like a porn movie. The man eventually seems to go catatonic from the relentless sexual assault by both the actresses and the female "fans" of the show. The final panel shows the doctor explaining to the man's friend that they are trying to keep him away from the public, but... "But?" "But." As behind them the nurse lifts her skirt and climbs into the catatonic man's lap. And yes, the entire thing is played for laughs. "Era una joda para Videomatch"?
- One of the most unfortunate recipients of this troop has to be Vril Dox the leader of the DC superhero team L.E.G.I.O.N. who was not only beaten and raped by his teammate Stealth but killed by her when it was over, however he was then brought Back From The Dead (via clone) and made to help her take care of the resulting Enfant Terrible conceived during the rape who tries to kill him by the time he's 2. Poor guy.
- Possibly the first DC man (sort of) to be to have this happen to him was Swamp Thing. He was raped by an alien cyborg plant that though he was good looking and would make a good mate.
- Another DC example (whew!) Bruce Wayne, upon finding out from Talia al Ghul that they have a son, notes to her that she drugged him. He doesn't use the word "rape" or even "assault", but it's clear he didn't find it amusing after the fact but he still takes the son who is now Robin.
- DC also had a case of reverse Dude Shes Like In A Coma between two of the founding members of the Legion Of Superheroes. Saturn Girl tried to use her telepathic powers to bring Cosmic Boy out of a coma. It appeared that she'd succeeded, but instead she was subconsciously animating and controlling his comatose body; during this period they began dating, and Cos woke up at their wedding. This admittedly was not treated as "okay" so much as it was forgiven because Saturn Girl did it subconsciously, not on purpose.
- Horatio from Nexus was also has also druged and raped, which resulted in the birth of his twin daughters, later he moved in with the girls and there rapist mother proving that Rape Is Love
- Another Starman was kept as a sex slave. I think someone at DC has some issues
- In Wildstorm's Texas Chainsaw Massacre six-issue miniseries Henrietta and the Tea Lady (relatives of Leatherface) knock out an FBI agent and take him back to their trailer, where they drug him and rape him in an attempt to impregnate themselves. Made all the more disturbing by the fact that the rape sequence is done from the agent's drug-addled point of view.
- Like her mythological counterpart Marvel's Hippolyta, the evil queen of the Amazons, is a serial rapist and even one ups her legendary self by (with some help from Pluto) making Hercules (the only man she slept with willingly) her sex slave. However this trope is so firmly embedded in the minds of the people at The Other Wiki that they refuse to believe she could do it and claim Hercules seduced her with her consent. Since when is being tricked into signing a contract forcing you to sleep with someone considered consensual seduction?
- Done to The Incredible Hulk, of all people, in Peter David's Future Imperfect story- Hulk's Evil Future Self's best non-powered servant does this to a paralyzed present-day Hulk.
- Hulk was also raped by Dormamu's sister Umar in a Defenders mini.
- The Mighty Thor was mentally controlled and raped by his own teammate Moondragon who was going through one of here A God Am I moments luckily for him he was eventually able to get her to be treated like a Norse god, punished by Odin
- That was not the only time the god of thunder was raped he had previously the Enchantress had used her magic to make him her sex slave.
- Raping Thor must be somewhat of a family tradition as the Enchantresses sister Lorelei also used magic to rape the thunder god.
- Subverted in Deadpool, where Typhoid Mary uses his own holographic disguise to impersonate Deadpool's one sided crush Syrin and seduce him. This screws deadpool up big time.
- That series was pretty much all about deadpool getting his mind messed with.
- Yup. I suppose a very light version would be when Deadpool's ex-girlfriend Copycat shapeshifted into various supermodel-level women that respectively seduced him, initially apparently without his knowledge. The final tally perhaps being "It's ok as long as the woman looks really hot, and the guy enjoyed himself", which is the case with both Moondragon, Enchantress, Lorelei, and Copycat, since neither of the males cared afterwards, but less so when the filthy Typhoid made DP think he had scored with the love of his life.
- Played with in Fables when Snow White and Bigby are both enchanted and wake up in a tent in the woods, discovering later that they slept together. While it's uncertain if it's rape (as both of them were under a spell and couldn't remember the action), Bigby is rather offended that Snow blames him and points out that for all they know, she seduced him. Though really, Snow was more angry that Bigby knew they slept together because of his wolf senses but chose to lie about it, with her only finding out after she discovered she was pregnant.
- In an issue of Thunderbolts, sex maniac Skein rapes SHIELD Super Agent Silicon, and it's played entirely for comedy
- In Avengers West Coast 56, having just made a Face Heel Turn Scarlet Witch said she was no longer bound by morality and uses her power to immobilize and rape her brother in law Wonder Man who had a crush on her despite his protest "Wanda...what...don't...No!", US Agent, The Wasp, and Wanda's mentor Agatha Harkness were also in the room at the time.
- Foggy Nelson the law partner and friend of Matt Murdock AKA Dare Devil was drugged and raped by a client of theirs named Lydia Mckenzie who was secretly working for Mysterio. She then committed suicide by jumping out the window and made it appear that Nelson had pushed her. As a result Foggy's girlfriend Liz Allen (the original love interest of Spider-Man Peter Parker and widow of Green Goblin Harry Osborn) leaves him for cheating on her. He was also fired from his job because of the negative publicity it might bring the firm by his new law partner who is also his, until recently, Missing Mom.
- In Young Captain Adventure, Hericane's extremely predatory attraction to Young Cap is pretty roundly portrayed as "right", which reflects this sort of attitude nicely.
Film
- The trope has been the plot for far too many porn films to dwell upon.
- In M*A*S*H, there's an implied rape as a character is given a rufie disguised as an assisted-suicide drug, and a female character has sex with him— albeit to prevent him from committing suicide for real. In any case, it's played for dark humor.
- The Movie Wedding Crashers contains a particularly vivid version of Woman-on-Man rape. The victim ultimately falls in love with her and marries her. The movie is a comedy.
- Subverted in the black comedy film Thursday. The main character is tied to a chair and raped by a female associate of his criminal friend, while she taunts him about betraying his wife. To top it off, she says she'll kill him once it's over but it won't be over until he completely submits to her by having an orgasm. He withholds, so she takes her time by having multiple orgasms. Another party eventually breaks it up with a bullet to her head from a Hitman that believes this trope, but the rape is portrayed as being emotionally distressing for the protagonist.
- It doesn't actually happen, but there's hints of it in Moulin Rouge. It's more like clothed rape.
- Done painfully straight in the "comedy" Norbit, where Norbit is constantly physically, emotionally, and sexually assaulted by the over-sized "female" lead, due to him being trapped in a relationship with this woman merely because he is too weak willed to stand up for himself. You know this would be played differently if the roles were reversed.
- This trope is carried out in the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie as a punishment to the tied up relentless tough cop by his captor woman. His sole reaction was insisting "she did not sit on my face" after his partner ridiculed him about it.
- In the movie 40 Days And 40 Nights the protagonist, chained to his bed and waiting for his girlfriend to arrive, awakens being raped by his EX-girlfriend. To top it off he later has to apologize to his girlfriend for this.
- Porky's daughter attempts to jump Meat in Porky's Revenge, whether or not she actually succeeds is unclear, but she does manage to completely freak the boy.
- In Police Academy, the busty Sgt. Callahan forces herself on womaniser George Martin, leading, of course, to him eventually falling in love with her. Justified story-wise, at least, as "turnabout is fair play."
- Nothing actually happened, but in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, the Decepticon disguised as a sexy female human continues her advances on Sam despite his repeatedly saying that he has a girlfriend, eventually pushing him down a bed, straddling him, and forcing a French kiss on him. The part that Sam finds most traumatic about this experience is his discovery that the girl was actually a robot and his girlfriend treats him like a wimp for reacting that way. So if the girl had been human it would have been ok?
Literature
- Judith Krantz novel I'll Take Manhattan's Maxi and her ex Rocco- at one point she grabs his penis during an argument, which leads to a hard-on, which leads to...well, him saying she raped him afterwards. (Who randomly grabs a penis during an argument?)
- Another Judith Krantz novel: Scruples 2. Zach is asleep and wakes up to find Pandora having sex on top of him. Then Gigi, the girl Zach actually likes walks in... Later Zach explains the situation to Gigi's stepmother, who believes him, but admits it'd be a stretch to explain. Judith Krantz has no problems with going for this trope, apparently.
- Forms the primary plot motivator in the novel and later film Disclosure. An employee eventually storms away from his former lover and current Straw Feminist boss after she starts giving him fellatio. As revenge, she sues *him* for sexual harassment and the inherent Double Standard of this trope is what really vexes the male main character.
- In the Wheel Of Time books, Mat encounters the widowed Queen of Ebou Dar. This is a culture where a married woman carries a special knife, given to her by her husband, with the understanding that she is supposed to stab him if he ever manages to displease her, and also where men often do stints as pampered "pretties". Tylin's interest in Mat pushes things a little too far even for there, though. Mat finds himself blacklisted from every room and kitchen except for what Tylin offers in the palace, and it isn't long before her tying him to her bed with ribbons and undressing him at (and with) knife point while she calls him her duckling is a common occurrence. The entire palace staff thinks this is hilarious and cooperates wholeheartedly. Her son has no problems with Tylin taking Mat as a lover, but even he is shocked at how Tylin is forcing Mat. Mat damn near has an emotional break down before he has to go on a mission to retrieve a MacGuffin.
- The whole situation is played primarily for laughs, like those heroes who genuinely wander into the girls' changing room by accident, and get a lot of heavy objects thrown at their heads. He also is shown to grow quite fond of Tylin after a while, though not actually in love with her. When she finally bids him goodbye, he replies "I'll miss you, too." Rape Is Love ... sorta.
- The implications are more of a Stockholm Syndrome as Mat's resistance is shown to be eroded over time and he is also very confused by the fact that he will miss her. The problem is the reactions from his friends, who thinks he deserves it (he was something of a chronic womanizer himself), and doesn't believe how far it goes.
- Happens to Luke Skywalker in the EU novel The Courtship Of Princess Leia, where he is raped by a Force-sensitive Amazon from a matriarchal society. Lampshaded afterwards, when Luke calls her out for assuming that this trope is perfectly true and acceptable.
- In the book Conrad's Time Machine, the main character is raped by three women; he says he doesn't think they should be prosecuted like male rapists should, and in fact we later discover this was part of his bachelor party that his best friend set up for him!
- In Peter David's The Woad to Wuin (sequel to Sir Apropos of Nothing), the first chapter is a parody of Lord Of The Rings in which the titular character finds "the One Thing to Rule Them All," an artifact which makes him irresistible to others, including his antagonist love interest. He spends quite a few days tied down in an inn being raped by women before being rescued by a mock-Fellowship, and going off (unwillingly) to rid himself of the Thing. When he finally succeeds and returns, he of course is blamed for "forcing" himself on the woman, and she storms off.
- In an episode of You Rang, M'Lord? Teddy hits on a plan to get out of marrying a woman he doesn't love: when she's spending the night at his house he'll creep into her bedroom and then do nothing. She'll assume he's impotent and call the wedding off. He doesn't count on how enthuiastically she'll react to finding him getting into bed with her, and although the character is quite unhappy about what's happened, it's played for laughs.
- In the Red Dwarf novel Last Human, Lister is forced to marry a hideously ugly Gelf (Genetically Engineered Life Form). The situation is played mostly for laughs, but his emotions during the sex are touched on in a curiously realistic way:
Oh, my God, he was close to climax. She really knew what she was doing. Oh, he was so disgusted. Did he have no self-control? She was descended from hippos, for God's sake.
- A similar scenario occurs in the TV series Episode "Polymorph II", though in this case Lister manages to escape before his "wife" can get his clothes off.
- Subverted in CJ Cherryh's Cyteen, where young researcher Justin Warrick is seduced, drugged and abused by much older boss Ariane Emory. And, on Emory's command, by her male and female pair of azi (cloned and programmed human soldier/servant/slaves). Justin is made by others to feel that it's either his fault or no big deal; others believe it was Emory's revenge on Justin's father. We eventually find out it's much more complex than that; Emory was doing it as psychological manipulation to drive Justin away from his father and make him into what Emory wanted him to become. Cherryh has dealt with the rape of men by women before, notably in Downbelow Station, in which warship captain Signy Mallory keeps a mind-wiped enemy spy as her torture and torment pet, which does appear to be sexual for her.
- In Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince. Multiple girls try to slip Harry love potions (which if you think about it, are the equivalent of magical date rape drugs). Ron gets drugged by accident when he eats some of the chocolate meant for Harry and proceeds to act like you might expect of someone who takes a love potion. The book plays up the potential problems of this but it's still played mostly for laughs. Now, imagine the reaction if McClaggan had tried to do the same to Hermione...
- The love potions in question can be bought from a highly visible, well-advertised public store that has the Ministry of Magic as customers. They are sold from a pink display, surrounded by giggling girls, and their effectiveness depends on the weight of the boy and attractiveness of the girl, not the weight of the recipient and the attractiveness of the user. Evidently the Weasley twins and their Ministry customers believe in this trope too.
- Subverted in Robert Merle's novel Virility Factor. The novel is about a Gendercide that destroys most of the males, and contains a newspaper story where two young women kidnap and repeatedly rape an elderly priest. This is described as a traumatizing and humiliating experience for the priest, but the misandrist reigme that came into power, punishes him much harder than the rapists.
Live Action TV
- This was dealt with in an episode of Law And Order: Special Victims Unit. What's particularly notable about the episode is that the actress playing the main rapist (a high-powered lawyer) would later join the main cast as the main Assistant District Attorney... although not as the same character. Another had a woman slipping talented men roofies so she could get their genetic material, If You Know What I Mean.
- Not quite rape, but similar. In an early episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine had Lwaxana Troi coming onto Odo very heavily. Commander Sisko doesn't seem to be willing to do anything about this, and almost treats it like a joke. That being said, Odo is obviously very distressed over this, since he's socially withdrawn, asexual, and possesses a very alien biology (especially within the context of the series itself). Subverted. She also winds up being with Odo in his most vunerable moments (literally and emotionally, and her sheer empathy for him actually makes them rather close friends.
- Played more or less straight in the Star Trek Enterprise, episode Unexpected. "More or less", because the writers didn't even NOTICE they had written a rape into the story (an alien gets a man to use her DNA machine and thus get pregnant). Elaborated on in this review by Sci Fi Debris.
- Played for laughs, at least to some degree, in the Star Trek The Next Generation, episode First Contact. Disguised as an alien, Commander Riker is trying to escape when a female alien confronts him. She agrees to help him, but only if he has sex with her first. While not rape, she did force him into it, and it is hard to imagine Troi agreeing to have sex with a male alien to escape. Which is made even worse when you consider that he was seriously injured at the time.
- In ''Picket Fences,' a man is raped by a woman "Sharon Stone" style, but she thought he was "saying no when he really means yes." During the trial, the Amoral Attorney makes a big joke out of the male victim's experience.
- Done in an episode of Life On Mars. Being set in The Seventies, the other characters' attitudes are somewhat justified, but the victim himself is merely slightly upset - about the blackmail pictures. The rapist is then portrayed as a victim of the crime lord who ordered it, to scared to do anything but what she's told. Hid it well, though. Sam is (in)appropriately sympathetic, and the audience are apparently supposed to be sad when she turns up dead. Boo effin' hoo.
- In the 70's TV-movie It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy, a stripper rapes a family man at gunpoint "for kicks;" needless to say, the film is a comedy, but centers on the fact of how no one sympathizes with him.
- In Peep Show Mark, the perpetual Butt Monkey, is raped by a woman. However, this is a subversion as when he tells his friends, an addict and cassanova, they attempt to convince him that no that was rape. And there are indicatins later in the episode that this has affected him.
- Subverted in Season 4 of Farscape, in which Grayza's mental and physical rape of Crichton is portrayed as traumatising and disgusting to him. In the episode immediately after it happens for the first time, he is seen frantically throwing water all over himself in an attempt to "clean" her off of him. Later, he does start to go along with it, but only so that he can find a way to trick her. After secretly finding a way to reverse the effects of the aphrodisiac she was using on him, he eventually ties her up in a supposed bondage session, before leaving her there and escaping, much to her fury.
- Ironically, Grayza herself seems to be a believer in this trope: during Crichton's rape, she boasts that her interrogations are so much better than those of Scorpius. Crichton doesn't agree in the slightest, and takes the time to remind her during Grayza's Villainous Breakdown.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Xander, a while after consensual sex with Faith, goes to visit her and she pins him to the bed, she almost rapes him, before deciding to strangle him instead. When he's rescued, Angel makes a joke about his safe word, and when Faith appears near the end of the series, Xander never once says "Wait a minute, she sexually assaulted me, I don't want her on my team."
- Another Xander example is the second season where, with Amy's help, he tries to cast a love spell on Cordelia, his ex. Unfortunately, it backfires, and every woman in Sunnydale BUT Cordy is now madly in love with him. None of them succeed, and it was his fault, but it's still a little unnerving.
- Another example, Buffy rapes Spike in "Gone" she throws him against the wall and strips him before he figures out who she is (she's invisible), and her performing oral sex on him after he tells her to leave. We cut away before we can really figure it out. There's a poll on it, in fact.
- Not rape, but sexual harassment: on an episode of Friends, Joey is offered a role in a soap opera— in exchange for sleeping with the female casting director. In the end he refuses, only for her to offer him a bigger role on the same terms, and he does end up sleeping with her. The entire scenario is played for laughs, as the other five place bets on whether or not he would do it, and his only qualms about the situation are about his pride being hurt that he wouldn't have truly "earned" the role. Never once does it come up that it's completely illegal and morally reprehensible for employers to solicit sex from employees (or potential employees) as a criterion for hiring or promotion.
- In Two and a Half Men, Charlie is drugged and possibly raped by his female stalker "Rose," but it's ok since he's a sleazy man.
- In M*A*S*H, Radar is aggressively ravished by a kooky nurse; but of course it's funny because it's what he wanted anyway... and it's M*A*S*H, after all (see movies, above).
- Desperate Housewives - Orson's ex-wife drugs him, rapes him, and tries to get pregnant to force them back into marriage. Though Bree does call it rape, it's mostly played straight/for laughs (no trauma, no shock, no nothing). One can only imagine the internet backdraft if Orson was the rapist.
• In Stargate SG-1. The Goa'uld queen Hathor puts Daniel Jackson under heavy-duty mind control and has her way with him in order to create more Goa'uld larvae. When the all-female task force find him afterwards, he is catatonic and surrounded by obvious signs of a struggle. At the end of the episode, when he admits that a lot of the larval DNA is going to be his, Jack O'Neill reacts in disgust. Only somewhat averted in that it isn't clear that the others even realize what Hathor did to Daniel, and may be reacting more to human DNA being incorporated into the form of the enemy. It never comes up again until Hathor's next (and last) appearance, which amounts solely to Daniel refusing to look at her and saying that he "tries not to" think about their last encounter.
- Jim Profit in Profit was sexually abused by his stepmother, who blackmails him back into the sexual relationship upon discovering that he has become wealthy and powerful. Despite the fact that he is clearly unhappy whenever he's forced to engage in this behavior, and her repeated demands that he allow her to tie him up and beat him bloody, the writers and some of the fans seem to view it as a kinky relationship, not a series of sexual assaults. Fans often excuse the relationship because Jim is so wicked, ignoring that his stepmother is actually one of his Freudian Excuses for being the Heroic Sociopath and that if their genders were reversed she'd be one of the most vilified characters of all time.
- Somewhat averted in Swedish miniseries Glappet. One of the female protagonists has sex with a guy who's half passed out at a party. He wakes up knowing that it happened, but not who the girl was, and while he feels that it was rape, when he tries to talk to a therapist about it the therapist just laughs at him. As for the protagonist, she treats it as a regular one-night-stand, but eventually comes to realize that the guy feels differently, and apologizes.
- Averted in Oz where prison guard Claire Howell sleeps with any male inmate that takes her fancy. While many are (initially) eager, she's not above savagely beating those who reject her advances.
Religion and Myth
- Bible: Lot's daughters basically drug and then rape their own father. The bible doesn't explicitly say that it was a good thing, but at least the rape fulfills its purpose: both daughters get pregnant, and from that come the Moabites and Ammonites (methinks - either this conflicts with the above story, or one of us is mistaken about the bloodline).
- Some what common in Greek Mythology where the prevailing feeling seemed to be rape is ok when it is the strong on the weak. Perhaps the best know example of this was The Amazons which as a Gender Flipped version of a typical warrior race would regularly rape prisoners of both genders just like their male counterparts. This was a major part of Greco-Roman culture. Any kind of sex was fine, including rape, as long as it involved domination of a social subordinate (usually a slave or wife; or in some cases, such as Spartan society, a younger male protege). To submit, sexually, to someone weaker or socially inferior was considered highly shameful, and grounds for anything from exploitative humour to outright ostracism.
- In the legend of King Arthur Sir Galahad was conceived when his father Sir Lancelot was drugged and raped. While the person who drugged him Morgan Le Fay is typically seen as a villain both the rapes mastermind the Fisher King who wanted the perfect grandson and the rapist herself Princess Elaine where not shown to be bad people.
- Venus & Adonis. "Backward she push'd him, as she would be thrust." Thank you, Shakespeare. Originally from Ovid's Metamorphosis.
- Aristophanes's The Assemblywomen (or Ecclesiazusae) has a couple old hags dragging a young man away from his young and presumably beautiful lover to force him to obey the new laws governing sex. One wonders whether they'd already grabbed an ugly man.
Video Games
- Subverted hard in the Metal Gear Solid series. Otacon's stepmother sexually abused him when he was a young teen. He remains traumatized well into his adulthood, because he blames himself for what happened and the impact it had on his family. He's also left with a pretty dysfunctional approach towards heterosexual romantic relationships.
- Bully: The protagonist helps the cafeteria lady slip sedatives to a male teacher; it is strongly implied that she aims to take him home and rape him. Imagine the Moral Guardians reaction if the sexes were reversed.
- Bluntly averted in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin; when the ending makes it clear that Alma's horrific assaults on Beckett have been sexual in nature, it's probably one of the most disturbing moments in the entire game. Made even worse by the fact that Alma is quite clearly enjoying it, judging by the sounds she's making.
- And if that's not bad enough, about ten seconds after this is made clear by the insanely disturbing visual of Alma turning to show her pregnancy, she takes a restrained Beckett's hand and forces him to hold her belly. High. Octane. Nightmare. Fuel.
- Video to be found here.
- In Super Robot Wars Z; one of the Original Generation, Xine Espio, hints at wanting to commit night rape, if her battle quotes are to be trusted. Not that any guy would mind, since Xine, alongside her Eliphas machine, carry the Horny Devils motif. It also helps she walks around in LINGERIE and her Most Common Superpower rivals other voluptuous Original Generation females in the Super Robot Wars franchise.
- Saphine Grace from Super Robot Wars Gaiden and Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden is more or less Xine's predecessor in this regard. She doesn't seem to be the aggressor though: she ironically gets kinked out of her knickers at things being the other way round, making her a subversion
- Shiki's dreams in Tsukihime. Actually a subversion as not only is it seen as a dumb (and humiliating/very inappropriate) move on Arcueid's part, he calls her on it and explains very pointedly that that is not the way to thank someone.
- Shiki might have been a bit unfair to Arcueid. After all, all she did was send Len to give him a pleasant sex dream with whoever he subconsciously wanted...not realizing that not only are Len's dreams rather too realistic (meaning Shiki reacted in a completely normal fashion to X girl showing up in his room), but she's also not one to give up just because a dream is turning out badly.
- Arcueid seems to have had some idea that Len did this kind of stuff. Shiki didn't mind the dream so much as the fact that generally he was tied up and, well, raped.
- And then in the 'sequel', Kagetsu Tohya, Len does it to him again. Only this time, she's in her true form... that of a ten-year-old girl. And he cares even less. (In her defense, it's implied this time that she was just having an Erotic Dream about him and her powers were making it real, so she didn't do it on purpose. Doesn't really change the fact she did it on purpose the first time...)
- Fallout 3 has a quest where you help a woman drug her unwilling lover so she can effectively force him into wanting her. And it is treated as a good thing. The only NPC who even knows about the drug is the one who wanted to marry the victim. The victim actually blames himself, since as far as he knows he lost control of himself and raped her. He marries her thinking it's the only right thing he can do at this point, but is obviously traumatised by the whole thing.
- Subverted in MOON. when main character Ikumi is forced to relive a memory of her raping a boyfriend in high school. Ikumi can try to argue that Rape Is Ok When It Is Female On Male but then she will be forced to relive the memory from the boy's point of view and feel the shame and disappointment that the boy supposedly felt.
- Karura in Utawarerumono. First, she gets Hakuoro to agree to help her country out. That's nice. But then as 'paying' him, she drugs him into having sex with her, and later when confronting Suwonkas she starts groping and kissing him in an attempt to piss Suwonkas off. And also because she just wanted to. Now imagine if these roles had been reversed. Actually, Karura probably couldn't get away with it either if she wasn't awesome.
- Illusion has produced the sort of inversion to Battle Raper that a company understandably shy about Rapelay controversy would release. The player character is a demon prince being stalked, assaulted, and raped by a variety of Action Girls seeking to seal his power. This is safe to sell due to the trope name. Oddly for an H-game, the object is to avoid the H-scenes, though there's the option to have sex with your older sister to feel better.
Webcomics
- The webcomic Arthur, King of Time and Space averts this somewhat. King Pelles gets Lancelot (are there really spoilers for the Arthurian romances anymore?) drunk so his daughter Elaine can have her way with him, since they both come from very "holy" bloodlines, and Pelles wants to unite those lines - but Lancelot wants to stay celibate (before his affair with Guenevere begins). Since the comic places the Arthur story in different time periods, we see the reactions of:
- The far past (the medieval/"fairy tale" arc), where Guenevere is just as jealous and enraged at Lancelot as if he'd been sober and consenting when he lost his virginity;
- The present day, where the rape doesn't happen but the topic of female-on-male rape comes up, specifically Lancelot being uncertain a man "can" be raped, while Guenevere assures him a man can; and
- The far future, where Guenevere personally arranges for Lancelot's counseling after the fact. All this meant to show the progress of social attitudes towards rape and the personal attitudes of the characters if they'd been brought up in different times and places.
- In Something Positive, one of the characters rapes Davan while he's too drugged out to consent. In fact, his very helplessness and inability to defend himself or know what was happening was what turned her on. The real Wall Banger is that this is one of the major creators of the "touching" Milholland Relationship Moment. Was also Rape As Comedy.
- Subverted in Bizarre Uprising when a male character is raped, and the logic that because he is aroused means he wants it is used explicitly. See the comic here.
- Subverted by Girls With Slingshots. Candy tries to rape Chris, and he maces her. His friend Jameson initially reacts as if this trope is in effect, but Jameson gets shot down very quickly as the other characters console Chris and make sure Candy understands that her actions were wrong.
- In the final panel of this '[1] Questionable Content comic, Faye and Sarah discuss how shy, submissive boys fantasize about being raped.
Web Original
- Subverted in the web-novel Perpetual Change. Not only was Severin sexually abused by his sadistic aunt as a child (which could have easily been the reason he's rather messed up mentally), it is strongly suggested that an instance of rape/abuse was the reason he went insane in the first place.
Western Animation
- The Simpsons episode: "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" when Selma forces Artie to have sex with her so Homer can get out of jail. Another example would be in 'The Strong Arms of The Ma', where a (very) buff Marge forces herself upon Homer.
- Subverted in a South Park episode, in which 2-year old Ike's 25-year old female teacher had regular sex with him. Although the adults in series are saying "nice" regarding Ike's sexual conquest in spite of Kyle's outraged outcry, the show itself presents this as sick.
- Surprisingly subverted in Family Guy, in which Lois rapes Peter. It's played out for comedic effect and other characters think Peter is totally pathetic for it, but he is notably disturbed by the whole thing.
- Then used horribly in a later episode, where Lois more explicitly rapes Peter after he takes up abstinence, and is portrayed as being completely right in doing so. Earlier in the episode, they made fun of Christian groups who advocate abstinence, and Lois even goes "Abstinence is wrong! Just...wrong!"
- In another aversion of this trope, Meg tries to rape a guy and at the end of the episode, she was being dragged off while her family completely ignored her. What throws this into the Rape As Comedy section is that Meg was trying to force herself onto a guy that had held her hostage and had threatened to kill her, to which her family ignored. She was being charged by the guy who had held her hostage.
- Dean Venture is nearly raped by the Quymn twins in Season 3 of The Venture Bros, but the trope itself is averted.
- in a Futurama episode, in which Zapp Brannigan, Fry, and Kif are sentenced to "death by snoo-snoo" for trespassing in a Lady Land. Zapp and Fry don't object till it's gone on so long as to be painful, and have no ill effects besides their physical injuries, but apparently the writers couldn't bring themselves to be so cruel to Kif, who did object; he managed to evade his first assailant till rescue came.
- In Ed Edd N Eddy, the Kanker sisters Lee, Marie and May have been suggested of raping not only the Eds before, but Kevin, Rolf, Jimmy and Jonny. What they do is never actually seen, they drag the boys off screen to do unpleasant things to them.
- Add Eddy's older brother to that at the end of the 'movie'.
- Miss Barch (the man-hating science teacher) when she begins dating Mr. O'Neill (the over-sensitive English teacher) on Daria.
Real Life
- Look up Joyce McKinney (assuming a few obscure sites and many forums count within TV Never Lies).
- In many countries, rape of a man (or even a boy) by a woman is not even classed as a crime. For example, in Ireland in 2009 a woman could not be convicted of raping her son because the crime didn't exist. (She got 7 years for other crimes)
- According to Florida state law, it is statutory rape to have sex with a woman under the age of 16 or a girl who is 16/17 if you are 24 or older. The problem? Only the male can be charged with the crime. This has led to cases where two 14-year-olds have had sex and the boy, usually caught by the parents, has faced rape charges, while the girl has nothing happen other than being put on the stand as "victim". The reasoning is that a man has to do all the work, so a woman cannot actually rape a man. Apparently, the law was invented in a time when the missionary position was still the only legal position.
- In some jurisdictions, it is legally impossible for a man to get raped, because the "rape" law only applies to female victims. A man can get sexually assaulted though, which would apply if a man is either raped by another man or forced into sex by a female. Obviously, the punishment is much less, and many studies show that in court, women get away with much less severe punishments for the same crimes than men do. So a woman "raping" a man at knifepoint may get 3 months of community service, or even just psychological therapy, when a man raping a woman at knifepoint isn't going to see the light of day for at least ~5 years. Needless to say that if the woman gets pregnant in either case, the guy is going to have to pay child support. Studying law can make you fairly cynical.
- It is possible under English law for a man to be raped, as rape is defined as 'penetration of the mouth, anus or vagina by a penis'. However, this has only been possible since 2004. Prior to that, men could only be sexually assaulted; which carried a much lesser penalty (you can get life for rape, but only about 6 years for sexual assault). It's far from the only jurisdiction to make this trope legal truth...
- "Common Law" jusridictions classify rape as only male-on-female, but they also require that the female not be his spouse— that's right, forced sex was always ok under Common Law if you were married to the woman, since wives were considered property. Most jurisdictions have since revised this, but some states still follow Common Law.
- That probably has less to do with wives being considered property (which is a pretty silly idea in a number of ways to begin with) and more to do with marriage being considered to be consent in and of itself. Marriage used to be no more than a contract, after all, one of the stipulations being fulfillment of certain "marital duties." That's not really the case any more, of course.
- The Common Law idea against marital rape came from a misunderstanding of rape laws printed in an English legal encyclopaedia. When the encyclopaedia entry was used in the summing-up of a case by a high-ranking judge, it became part of the common law. This happened around the thirteenth century and was not remedied in England and Wales until 1999.
- Subverted in this frankly weird story from Russia. The female rapist may well be going to prison.
- Mary Kay Laterneau, Deborah LaFave, and all other female teachers who commit statutory rape; this is a laughingstock for male comedians.
- Man is raped by a female stripper. Stripper is acquitted. The person who posted it to unfunnybusiness says that "the guy may have lied because of male ego". UFB posters are all "NO SHIT SHERLOCK".
- In Norway there was a case where a woman raped an unconscious man. All in all it look like it would be an aversion of this trope. The media had more interest in the case than would be normal, probably because of this trope, but they never implied that the man liked it. But then the defense attorney came fourth and claimed that the entire case was silly and that the man "should just appreciate what was essentially a pleasant experience." There was a massive reaction to this claim. It's worth noting that the lawyer in question has ethics that's comparable to Jack Thompson. He would later go on to defend a man accused of more than 50 separate cases of pedophilia and claim that children wouldn't be all that traumatized from touching the man's genitalia.
- Thoroughly averted under Dutch law: article 242 Sr defines rape as being forced to undergo actions which involve sexual penetration of the body. This refers to any form of sexual penetration, and it doesn't need to be the victim's body getting penetrated. This does create rather uninintuitive examples: a woman blackmailing two men into french kissing eachother is guilty of rape, while a man forcing a woman to give him a handjob isn't.
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