History Main / RomanticizedAbuse

* This concept is key to ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' movies. Consider some of the following lines:

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* "Kiss with a Fist" by Florence & The Machine

Which brings us to this trope. Readers who would ''never'' enjoy the sight of horrors committed against real people can often enjoy the suffering of fictional individuals. Many authors, aware of this, will happily give the readers what they want: Romanticized Abuse, or abuse PlayingToTheFetishes. This can happen on four levels:

A subtrope of PlayingToTheFetishes: Sexual abuse ''not'' designed to be sexy & appealing is ''not'' this trope. Compare ''and'' contrast CasualKink as well as SafeSaneAndConsensual, for characters who live out BDSM fantasies ''and'' show the kind of ethical restraint needed in RealLife. Note that abuse played for FetishFuel is rarely played ''only'' for FetishFuel. It is often a mix of FetishFuel, NightmareFuel, FetishRetardant, NauseaFuel and so on, and the FetishFuel component is sometimes calculated to maximize the horror value.

* The point of [[BastardBoyfriend Iason's]] use of Riki's [[ShockCollar Pet]] [[RestrainingBolt Ring]] in ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'', which takes place in quite a FetishFuelFuture and [[{{Dystopia}} Dystopian]] CrapsackWorld

In fiction, abuse can be fun. Even sexy. The victims are fictional anyway, and only real people have real rights.

People who would never enjoy horrors committed against ''real'' people can often enjoy the suffering of ''fictional'' individuals, and many authors fully take this into account. Romanticized Abuse is abuse PlayingToTheFetishes. This can happen on four levels:

This trope can be ''very'' offensive, especially to those who've been victims of abuse in real life, so [[NoRealLifeExamplesPlease please do not add any real life examples]].

This trope is potentially ''very'' offensive, especially to those who've been victims of abuse, so[[NoRealLifeExamplesPlease please do not add any real life examples]].

NoRealLifeExamplesPlease!

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* KatyPerry spends the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM E.T.]] portraying the concept of AlienAbduction as this trope.
* Kiss with a Fist by Florence & The Machine
* ''The Hurt Makes it Beautiful'' by Hugo.
* ''Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do'' by BillieHoliday, where she defiantly declares how happy she is with her abusive husband (yes, it was TruthInTelevision)

* The point of [[BastardBoyfriend Iason's]] use of Riki's Pet Ring in ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'', which takes place in quite a FetishFuelFuture and [[{{Dystopia}} Dystopian]] CrapsackWorld

* Most novels by the MarquisDeSade (the guy "sadism" is named after) stays strictly in Romanticized Abuse territory, being about unrestrained sadism rather than [[SafeSaneAndConsensual mutual]] sadomasochism. It's all played for FetishFuel and political satire about how hypocritical, oppressive and unjust the socioeconomic system really was.

* Basically everyone in ''MetalGear'' has weird sexual issues about war and violence. Of course, this is played for horror/drama as well as for fanservice, but at the end of the day sexualising violence is mostly about making all the people really attractive, putting them in ridiculously tight suits, [[MaleGaze having lots of close-ups on the crotches and butts]], inserting gratuitous HoYay, and playing enemyship as if it was heart-shatteringly romantic melodrama.

* ''SlaveWorld'' covers all four levels. On the civilization level, the entire slaveworld is this kind of grim FetishFuelFuture. On the organization level, the army of England is designed to maintain social order by turning uppity serfs into SexSlave {{cyborg}}s. On the couple level, Prince Samuel and Lady Isobel have this as their mutual hobby. On the individual level, most aristocrats qualify for the appropriately gendered trope.

* Most civilizations on ''{{Gor}}'' seem to be built with this as one of their basic premises.

* The {{new World of Darkness}} book ''Inferno'', covering demons, is based on the seven deadly sins, and the "lust" part is designed for creating characters (of either gender) who fit this trope.
* ''TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters'' supplement ''Book Of The Dead'' is about realms of the dead. One of them is a very friendly place called Oppia, which offers an abundance of food and {{Sex Slave}}s. Of course, it's very easy to break a rule and get enslaved yourself. Some of the slaves chose to remain slaves after they have served the term of their punishment.

* Bernkastel and Lambdadelta in ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' take this trope UpToEleven. Being all-powerful witches who will do anything to avoid boredom, a regular "punishment game" for them will involve things like locking each other up at the bottom of a hollow tower, turning all the stars in the sky into diamonds and dropping them, one by one, onto the other one until they are crushed into a pulp.
** Considering the end of Episode 6, [[spoiler:Battler and Beatrice]] seem to be heading in this direction. [[spoiler: Back when Beatrice was pretending to be a CardCarryingVillain, they ''definitely'' were.]]

When combined with EvilIsSexy, or any other of the EvilTropes, Romanticized Abuse is likely to lead to DracoInLeatherPants. However, the group or person whose abusive behavior is romanticized is [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt not necessarily]] [[DeathByWomanScorned portrayed as evil at all]].

* In ''SlaveMaker'', the entire setting is built on this trope.