History Main / DoubleStandardRapeSciFi

** After Lucifer's mother escapes Hell and takes possession of the body of a recently killed woman named Charlotte Richards, Lucifer goes back on his decision to bring her back to Hell and instead forces her to take the life of her host. When "Charlotte" mentions having sex with Charlotte's clueless husband [[DistractedByTheSexy whenever he asks an inconvenient question]], this is {{played for laughs}} and no one sees anything wrong with that.

** Ingrid's trance state with the mandragora. This results in horror and a mini-breakdown for Ingrid, but the rest of the cast utter 'oh noes' more akin to 'what a shame' than as if she had suffered a terrible ordeal.

** Eva uses a LovePotion on Killian so she can have sex with him as much as possible in order to [[spoiler: have a baby]], yet when everything is out in the open [[spoiler: her death scene]] is rendered as a poignant moment where the audience is meant to sympathize with her - both Freya and Killian himself are visibly moved, and he shows no emotional trauma from the abuse. The indignation of the other characters seems to stem from Eva coercing Killian's love and taking him from Freya, with no mention of forced sex.

** Unfortunately played straight in the form of Lili being captured by the Jaridians, and having an affair with one disguised as a human soldier. StockholmSyndrome is implied to be a factor.

** Then there's the subplot with the chief programmer Topher and the in-house medic [[spoiler:Dr. Claire Saunders]] -- when she discovers that she's really a doll implanted with her predecessor's memories, [[spoiler:Claire]] confronts Topher with the accusation that he designed her to want to sleep with him even though she hates him. However, he denies this and rejects her advances.

** Then there's the subplot with Topher and [[spoiler:Dr. Claire Saunders]] -- when she discovers that she's really a doll implanted with her predecessor's memories, [[spoiler:Claire]] confronts Topher with the accusation that he designed her to want to sleep with him even though she hates him. However, he denies this and rejects her advances.

** The shows deals heavily with this trope, as the show’s premise deals with brainwashed women and men, called "dolls", who can be implanted with customized personalities and skill sets and are often used as sex companions for clients. Episode 6 [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the issue with two storylines: one about a handler/bodyguard revealed to be raping his doll in her "blank slate” mode and asking if it's any different from when a doll is on assignment and their personality thinks they're in love with the client. The other storyline depicts a sympathetic client, a grieving widower who uses the doll to recreate a touching romantic moment with his late wife but who is still considered evil for sleeping with the doll. The dolls are all volunteers who knew what they were signing up for, but it's still rape in the sense that a programmed personality doesn't realize their feelings and desires for their partner are all manufactured.

It can frequently occur in variants of AliensMadeThemDoIt and the BedTrick. FridgeLogic points out that {{Love Potion}}s that lead to sex may fall under this. Compare GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul for manipulation that can be used in this way. Contrast SafeSaneAndConsensual as well as FreeLoveFuture and EthicalSlut. See also DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal. Can overlap with DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale, as a woman taking advantage of a man through extraordinary means is even less likely to be labeled rape. FantasticLegalWeirdness is when these things interact with the legal system.

It can frequently occur in variants of AliensMadeThemDoIt and the BedTrick. FridgeLogic points out that {{Love Potion}}s that lead to sex may fall under this. Compare GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul for manipulation that can be used in this way. Contrast SafeSaneAndConsensual as well as FreeLoveFuture and EthicalSlut. See also DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal. FantasticLegalWeirdness is when these things interact with the legal system.

* ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'''s first episode involves Sabrina deciding to punish a group of {{Jerk Jock}}s who assaulted her friend by luring them into what they think is an orgy with her and the Weird Sisters, but using magic to make them think they're kissing the girls rather than making out with each other. While the Weird Sisters aren't exactly 'good' characters, this is presented as empowering comeuppance.

* For the same reason {{Love Potion}}s are illegal in the magical society of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.

** Initially, Fred and George sell love potions legally and their use is treated as funny by the story when another female student tries to give Harry one, though Ron accidentally ingests it so the reader never finds out how far things would have gone if she had been successful.

* ''Series/Charmed1998'': In the episode "Dream Sorcerer", Phoebe and Piper cast a spell to help with their guy troubles. While Piper is overwhelmed by the attention of multiple men, Phoebe hooks up with a hunky stranger and has sex with him multiple times until he goes berserk from the spell. The episode also contains [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale a gender double standard]] as the plot revolves around a disabled man seducing women in their dreams and killing them, which is treated rightfully as creepy.

** In "A Knight to Remember", a medieval Prince falls for Paige because he's under a LoveSpell from her past life the Evil Enchantress. Although there's an element of drama because the Enchantress intends to [[ChildByRape conceive an heir to the kingdom]] with him, [[BlackWidow then kill the Prince]], and is holding his true love captive, the Prince's declarations of love for Paige and attempts to convince her to make a baby with him are largely PlayedForLaughs.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison "Pretty Poison."]] While what she does is categorically closer to broad sexual assault, Poison Ivy wordlessly ordering her [[ManEatingPlant jumbo monster flytrap]] to [[VineTentacles restrain]] Batman's head so she can [[ForcefulKiss insistently makeout]] evokes this. And referring to their time together as [[CaptiveDate "a late night rendezvous"]] makes it tantamount to DateRape.

** At first played straight when Sisko sleeps with the MirrorUniverse Jazdia to maintain his cover as Mirror-Sisko, then called out after a delay of several episodes. Mirror-Jadzia says that if he ''ever'' touches her again... ''(holding a large knife to Sisko's face)'' [[{{Pun}} "Get the point?"]] Still played straight since Sisko [[GotVolunteered was forced]] to impersonate his counterpart, and only had sex with Mirror-Jadzia to maintain his cover, because blowing his cover would have resulted in certain death. It never occurs to anyone that he was the victim.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E17Superstar Superstar]]", Jonathan casts a spell to make himself look amazing to everyone and, among other things, brainwashes [[SexyScandinavian Swedish twins]] into a sexual relationship with him. This is played for comedy and when the spell is undone, it's just briefly mentioned that they left his mansion.

** Deconstructed in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E13DeadThings Dead Things]]" when the nerd villains "The Trio" honestly don't see the ethical implications of their plan to brainwash women into sex slaves, until the girl they victimized (Warren's ex, Katrina) spells it out for them and Warren murders her as she tries to escape, then they try to make Buffy think ''she'' accidentally killed Katrina by using shapeshifting magic and a summoned demon who distorts her sense of time, providing the MoralEventHorizon for what had been played as {{harmless villain}}s up to that point.

** Overall, the entire narrative treats Sephiroth's decision to ensure Terra's pleasure during the resulting sexual encounter, through the use of the lust potion, as the lesser evil - if only when compared to what Kefka originally intended. Especially when Kefka, enraged at the failure of ''his'' plan, [[DeathBySex blasts Sephiroth and Terra both to within an inch of their lives with his Light of Judgment]].

** Played lightly in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E6TrueQ True Q]]". A young woman on the Enterprise who has a serious crush on Riker discovers that she has omnipotent powers and transports them both into a romantic scenario. When he objects, she snaps her fingers and makes him believe he's in love with her. She quickly realizes this is a meaningless fake emotion and thinks better of it, but even the attempt is fairly horrifying considering that this is character with whom we're supposed to sympathize. Then again, she is just 18 years old.

* In ''Series/TrueBlood'', Tommy becomes a "Skin Walker" (shape-shifter that can turn into other people) early in season 5. He uses this power to impersonate Sam and [[BedTrick have sex with his girlfriend]]. This is treated pretty seriously... for about an episode. No one ever mentions the word "rape", and all is [[RedemptionEqualsDeath forgiven]] shortly afterwards.

** Vampires regularly glamour humans so they "agree" to sex.

** This is handled [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale inconsistently]]. In one case, Lenny in Season 2, exists as a disembodied mind trapped inside The Shadow King's own disembodied mind. She clearly states that whilst a prisoner there she is being repeatedly raped by The Shadow King. In another case, we learn something troubling about Syd, in that [[spoiler: she used her body swapping powers to take over the body of her own (sleeping) mother, seduce her mother's boyfriend, and initiate sex with him in the shower. When the powers swap her back into her own body, said boyfriend is terrified to discover he is mid-coitus with an underage girl. People don't know about her powers, so Syd not only gets away with it, but her victim is arrested for committing statutory rape. Whilst the scenario isn't at all presented in a positive light, Syd shows no apparent remorse, and no one ever confronts her about what she has done. On the contrary, David reacts like Syd was the victim when he sees what happened in her memory. And in Season 3, Syd portrays herself as the victim because her mother's boyfriend turned her around during sex. As if that's inherently wrong and there's no way he and her mother could have simply liked doing it that way without it being some kind of aggressive power move]].
** And in the end of season 2, when [[spoiler:David uses his powers to make Syd forget their arguments and then has sex with her (i.e., doing [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale exactly the same thing as in the Willow/Tara example above]])]], she has the nerve to not only (rightly) accuse him of raping her, but to also [[spoiler: free the finally captured Shadow King in order to imprison David, and then to demand that David either be drugged to suppress his powers (and sanity) or stay forever imprisoned]].

** The Confessors themselves hate the effect of their power, too, and specifically take mates they ''don't'' have feelings for since they can't bear to do that with a man they love. However, they're a bit [[Hypocrite hypocritical]] as they are still taking mates.

** A variation in ''Temple of the Winds''. While there is no direct magic compulsion, the condition to access said temple (which they must enter) are two arranged marriages (Richard with Nadine, Kahlan with Drefan) that have to be consummated immediately. The fact that they have no choice and are couples that would never have been together otherwise, making it rape by coercion, is never brought up (as an added bonus, there is a mundane BedTrick also involved that gets glossed over as well).

->''"For some reason if you rape someone with science fiction concepts it’s just a metaphor for rape, in much the same way that killing them with a phaser is just a metaphor for them being shot."''

** Confession is also literally the most feared punishment in the setting, to the point that people are more prone to flee at the sight of the uniform than they are when they see a wizard coming, and most wizards are essentially walking weapons of mass destruction with 'maim' as their lowest setting. Enough people commit suicide rather than submit to confession, guilty or innocent, that it's a large practical problem for the legal system. If anything, the setting takes rape a bit ''more'' seriously than real life values would actually require.
** The Confessors themselves hate the effect of their power, too, and specifically take mates they ''don't'' have feelings for since they can't bear to do that with a man they love. Which still carries some UnfortunateImplications, since they ''do'' take mates.

* The episode "Unexpected" of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. Tucker becomes pregnant when an alien tricks him into activity which would be the alien equivalent of sex, impregnating him. Played for humor because of the [[MisterSeahorse male pregnancy]], and the fact that Tucker didn't give meaningful consent is ignored. Tucker wasn't even informed it was sex until after he was pregnant; she said it was a game, and there was no physical contact. The alien is very apologetic when she finds out, and didn't think cross-species impregnation was a possibility at ''all'', but that doesn't change the fact that she lied to him about a sexual interaction they were having. It also doesn't excuse the fact that Tucker was made fun of by the crew of the ''Enterprise'' and a crew of Klingons over it. While it might be in-character for the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingons]] to react this way, it makes Archer and his crew come off as assholes. Even he isn't allowed to get that upset about it--he shows more mild annoyance than anything else.

** In the episode "The Child", Counselor Troi is impregnated by an alien EnergyBeing, and then gives birth to him in humanoid form. Troi insists on carrying him to term, and once he's born he reveals that he only did it to explore human existence, and he may not have realized the implications of what he was doing.
** In episode "The Host", a Trill (at that time implied to have all personality in the "parasite" part rather than a shared consciousness) who was having a sexual relationship with Doctor Crusher temporarily takes possession of Riker's body (with consent) to continue diplomatic negotiations. Doctor Crusher has trouble reconciling her romantic feelings for the Trill-personality with Riker's body--but the issue of whether Riker would consent to her having sex with his body is never even mentioned.
** In the episode "First Contact", a doctor on the planet Riker is trapped on offers to help him escape on the condition that they have sex, because she's [[BoldlyComing "always wanted to make love to an alien"]]. PlayedForLaughs. Between Riker's unruffled reaction and his [[TheCasanova romantic history]], the audience is presumably supposed to assume that he wasn't opposed to the idea.
** Played lightly in "True Q". A young woman on the Enterprise who has a serious crush on Riker discovers that she has omnipotent powers, and transports them both into a romantic scenario. When he objects, she snaps her fingers and makes him believe he's in love with her. She quickly realizes this is a meaningless fake emotion and thinks better of it, but even the attempt is fairly horrifying considering that this is character with whom we're supposed to sympathize. Then again, she is just 18 years old.

** At first played straight when Sisko sleeps with Mirror!Jazdia to maintain his cover as Mirror!Sisko, then called out after a delay of several episodes. Mirror!Jadzia says that if he ''ever'' touches her again... ''(holding a large knife to Sisko's face)'' [[{{Pun}} "Get the point?"]]
*** Still played straight since Sisko [[GotVolunteered was forced]] to impersonate his counterpart, and only had sex with Mirror!Jadzia to maintain his cover, because blowing his cover would have resulted in certain death. It never occurs to anyone that he was the victim.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
** Kirk combines this with CommonKnowledge, as a lot of his BoldlyComing reputation comes from either essentially showing some leg to get out of a situation, or being mind controlled, and still being seen as "getting some".

** Sam was implied in one episode to have had sex with Ruby, a demon--but it has been established that demons possess the bodies of living people, so Sam would be a rapist. Fan backlash was immediate and [[AuthorsSavingThrow soon a flashback scene was written]] showing that Sam refused to have sex with Ruby until she explained that her body had just flatlined in the hospital when she took it over and there was nobody else in it... which of course has UnfortunateImplications in itself. If the body is technically dead, and Sam has sex with it, [[ILoveTheDead doesn't that mean...]]
** In the episode "The French Mistake" where Sam and Dean get sent to the real world and it is implied that Sam gets intimate with his actor's wife. The RealitySubtext makes this merely amusing ([[RealLifeRelative the actors are indeed married in real life]]), but purely from an in-story perspective, that's a BedTrick.
** The episodes "Wishful Thinking" and "Trial and Error" both have a man making a woman fall in love with him with magic (a magic coin and a DealWithTheDevil). In both cases, the word "rape" isn't mentioned, and the situation's only treated as "How did this guy end up with ''that'' girl?"
** The episode "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!" has a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] version of the same situation, with [[AbhorrentAdmirer Becky]] basically drugging Sam into falling in love with her. When it starts to wear off on him, [[NearRapeExperience she knocks him out, takes his pants off, and ties him to the bed]] (but insists that she didn't "consummate" their "marriage" yet). It's PlayedForLaughs and also used to show how much of a loser Becky is... in the exact same season where it is repeatedly implied that he was raped by [[spoiler:[[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] in Hell]] and is slowly going insane from the memory of it. This show has issues.
** In "I'm No Angel," a Reaper possesses a girl named April and seduces newly human Castiel into having sex with her after providing him with food and shelter. Aside from the issue with dubious consent that is brushed aside for Cas, there are serious implications that April was raped against her will under possession. Yet the brothers show no concern or alarm over the matter aside from high-fiving Cas for losing his virginity. This matter is worsened in where Dean and Cas discuss how "hot" April was, disregarding the fact that she was raped, had stabbed Cas, and was murdered by the brothers.
** Applies as FridgeHorror in the case of the otherwise likable character Andy in Season 2, whose introduction shows him leaving the apartment of a half-dressed woman with the implication that they had sex after Andy used his MindControl powers. After developing his psychic powers further, he also laughs over using his powers to beam non-stop gay porn into a JerkAss's mind to torment him, with the other characters looking appropriately unsettled by this description of near-literal MindRape.

** The first episode sees Owen using a [[LovePotion alien love perfume]] he has taken from Torchwood's lockup to make a woman go from disgusted by him saying he just wanted her for sex to gagging for him, and when her boyfriend shows up enraged, Owen uses it again to get himself a threesome with them both. This act would by all means qualify as the legal definition of drug-facilitated sexual assault, but in the end, the only punishment Owen faces for all of this is being reprimanded for stealing from his workplace and made to hand the perfume back, while the actual sex crime he used the perfume to carry out goes completely unmentioned and is never commented on again in the show. But a few episodes later, Owen ends up repeatedly experiencing the memories of a woman who was raped decades earlier. The trauma of ''that'' experience pushes him to undergo some CharacterDevelopment.

* In the first episode of ''[[Series/Switch2012 Switch]]'', Jude casts a (temporary) love spell on a guy she fancies and has sex with him several times while he's under the influence. She only stops when she learns he's gay...[[IgnoredEpiphany and transfers the spell to her gay friend.]]

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has "Small Potatoes," where a shapeshifter has seduced five women wearing a variety of faces, resulting in the birth of babies with tails. One woman he got while looking like Luke Skywalker, while the other four women were seduced while he was wearing the faces of their husbands. Although he eventually goes away on rape charges, the episode's still a fair bit more comedic than most stories focusing on a serial rapist.

* Generally averted in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', where just about all forms of supernaturally coercing sex are considered bad mojo, whether it is shapeshifting, faerie glamours, or the [[HornyDevils White Court's mental whammy]]. Mortals using mind control to coerce sex gets the death penalty from the White Council, though this falls under the general blanket Laws of Magic, one of which states that using magic to control minds ''at all'' is illegal. {{Love Potion}}s ''technically'' do not count under the Laws, as the recipe used involves creating a strong aphrodisiac instead of outright mind control. Later in the series, the revelation that [[spoiler:Luccio was only in a relationship with Harry due to being mind-controlled into doing so by the Black Council]] is treated as disturbing for both of them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode [[Recap/TheBoondocksS2E4StinkmeanerStrikesBack "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back"]], Stinkmeaner possesses Tom and has sex with Sarah while in his body. This is never acknowledged again.