History Main / RapeAndSwitch

* It was implied that this might be the case for Striker in ''Comicbook/AvengersAcademy'', who was molested by his manager as a young boy. However, his classmate [[PowerPack Julie Power]] shoots down this notion, and tells a crying Striker that his abuser does not hold that sort of power over him.

* In the ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' series by PiersAnthony, a female Adept[[note]]Brown, if you must know[[/note]] is lesbian because of rape in her childhood. Note that this was Anthony ''trying to be nice'' about lesbians, after people misinterpreted the [[DoesNotLikeMen man-hating]] Red Adept as lesbian earlier and wrote him angry letters. He was trying, but still missed the mark.

* In one episode of the Netflix original series ''Orange is the New Black'', Vause threatens to rape Pennsatucky, and implies that [[HeteronormativeCrusader Pennsatucky]] will enjoy it so much that she will become gay. This is an unusual example in that it is a case where rape by another woman is implied to turn a woman gay, although it should be noted that this does not actually happen; Vause only threatens it.

* The VillainProtagonist of Creator/LRonHubbard's ''MissionEarth'' series gets tortured by a pair of lesbians hoping to use this trope to turn him gay, as outlined in the strategy of "[[AuthorTract Psychiatric Birth Control]]." The next book he gets them back by raping them, and the experience not only cures them of their psychologist indoctrination, but leads them to not only beg him to stay and have sex with them every night, but actually pay him to do so. Then the book after that, they start rounding up their other lesbian friends and bringing them over for him to have sex with, in one case forcing a woman to submit.

* In the novel ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'', Margot Verger becomes a lesbian after her horrible childhood of being [[BrotherSisterIncest raped by her brother, Mason]]. It's briefly implied that she may actually be bisexual when there seems to be mutual attraction between her and Barney when they're in the showers together, but it never goes any further.

* In the manga ''AfterSchoolNightmare'', DamselInDistress Kureha falls in love with protagonist Mashiro for this reason: she was raped when she was in kindergarten, and overheard her father saying some very brutal things to her mother, which lead her to severely distrust and hate men. So when she finds out that Mashiro is pretty much a [[{{Bifauxnen}} flat-chested girl that looks like a guy]], she falls in love with him/her.

* An unusual case occurs in ''BlueDrop'', where women are trained from youth to be lesbian [[SexSlave sex slaves]] for the Arume. This is an example of women being raped by women with the intention of turning them gay.

* ''GundamUnicorn'''s Angelo Sauper, one of the few canonically gay ''Gundam'' characters, is implied to have been turned gay by his sexually abusive stepfather in the novel version. This was, understandably, omitted from the more well known anime version.

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* In ''LongLiveTheQueen'', Kevan's backstory has an example of this. [[spoiler: He was sexually assaulted by his step-father, and this encounter led to him believing that he was in love with his stepfather (so for a portion of his development he becomes gay),]] despite evidence later on that he is in fact straight (or bisexual).
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* In the Paul Verhoeven film, ''Spetters'', a character preys on gay men, leading them on before beating them up and robbing them. The tables are turned when he is gang raped, accepts his homosexuality and begins a relationship with one of his rapists. Steven Spielberg recommended Verhoeven for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. Then he saw this. The rest is history.

* In ''LongLivetheQueen'', Kevan's backstory has an example of this. [[spoiler: He was sexually assaulted by his step-father, and this encounter led to him believing that he was in love with his stepfather (so for a portion of his development he becomes gay),]] despite evidence later on that he is in fact straight (or bisexual).

* In ''Long Live the Queen'', Kevan's backstory has an example of this. [[spoiler: He was sexually assaulted by his step-father, and this encounter led to him believing that he was in love with his stepfather (so for a portion of his development he becomes gay),]] despite evidence later on that he is in fact straight (or bisexual).

* In long live the Queen, Kevan's backstory has an example of this. [[spoiler: He was sexually assaulted by his step-father, and this encounter led to him believing that he was in love with his stepfather (so for a portion of his development he becomes gay),]] despite evidence later on that he is in fact straight (or bisexual).

* At least one {{Firefly}} fic does this, though the character wasn't raped, just threatened with rape (for specifics, the paring was River/Kaylee, where Kaylee was really shaken up by Early's threats in Objects In Space).

* Played with in the [[FurryFandom furry]] novel ''Literature/AFoxTail'', a psychologist suggests that [[CampGay Vulpie]] isn't actually gay but thinks he is due to being raped repeatedly by a PedophilePriest and his buddies. His loving relationship with Polar notwithstanding.

* Averted with Herr Starr, the main villain of the GarthEnnis series ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': he stays straight but can't orgasm with a woman unless she penetrates him anally with... something. Of course by the time he gets to the fish-ramming stage (... don't ask, please), he has no genitalia -- but presumably does still have a prostate. Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] while he was beating his assistant, who hired the man who raped him (again, don't ask), for "Turning him into a homosexual", his other assistant chimes in with "I don't think it works that way..."

* In I have no mouth and I must scream, Benny was gay, before meeting AM. However, it should be noted that AM is a psychotic almost physical god, who tortured him for a thousand years, made him from beautiful to looking like a monkey, and exaggerated his [[MurderArsonandJaywalking sexual]] [[BiggerisBetterinBed organs]].

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* One might argue this is what happened to Katchoo in ''StrangersInParadise'', since she was raped by her stepfather.
** Darcy too (in her case it was an [[CreepyUncle uncle]]... then again, the first thing she did afterwards was to try and seduce [[BrotherSisterIncest David]].)
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It is NotASubversion when a rape survivor does not become gay, nor is it automatically played straight when a gay person was sexually assaulted in the past. Perhaps for this reason, this trope is passing into DiscreditedTrope territory, as there is no single cause of homosexuality, forced or not.

It is NotASubversion when a rape survivor does not become gay, nor is it automatically played straight when a gay person was sexually assaulted in the past. Perhaps for this reason, this trope is passing into DiscreditedTrope territory, as people realize that there is no single magic cause of homosexuality, forced or not.

* Averted with Herr Starr, the main villain of the GarthEnnis series ''{{Preacher}}'': he stays straight but can't orgasm with a woman unless she penetrates him anally with... something. Of course by the time he gets to the fish-ramming stage (... don't ask, please), he has no genitalia -- but presumably does still have a prostate. Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] while he was beating his assistant, who hired the man who raped him (again, don't ask), for "Turning him into a homosexual", his other assistant chimes in with "I don't think it works that way..."

* In the Paul Verhoeven film, ''Spetters'', a character preys on gay men, leading them on before beating them up and robbing them. The tables are turned when he is gang raped, accepts his homosexuality and begins a relationship with one of his rapists. Steven Spielberg recommended Verhoeven for ''ReturnOfTheJedi''. Then he saw this. The rest is history.
* Though not a true example of this trope, ''KickAss'' deserves mention here. Early on, the main character removes his secret superhero costume after being severely beaten, and his dad and his schoolmates believe that he has been raped by muggers and that he is now gay or had been working as a male prostitute.

* Arguably the victims of [[spoiler:Woody Goodman]] on ''VeronicaMars''. Of the 4 we know about, one was definitely gay, another was sexually "on the fence" (as another character put it), and one... well... it's subject to AlternateCharacterInterpretation, but there's definitely subtext. The fourth victim we know about (or was strongly implied) doesn't have his sexuality brought into the whole thing, but he was less important than the first 3.
* Beecher from ''{{OZ}}'' becomes bisexual after being raped in prison.

When it is stated or implied that a character is gay because of sexual assault. The rapist is [[AlwaysMale without exception male]], and the rape itself is penetrative.

* At least one {{Firefly}} fic does this, though the character wasn't raped, just threatened with rape (For specifics, the paring was River/Kaylee, where Kaylee was really shaken up by Early's threats in Objects In Space).

* ''GundamUnicorn'''s Angelo Sauper, one of the few canonically gay ''Gundam'' characters, is implied to have been turned gay by his sexually abusive stepfather in the novel version. No word yet on whether or not the anime will go through with this.