People here treat it as fiction so it's not really much of a problem. You may have a point about real-life though. I was discussing rape prevention with someone and when I thought of inventive ways to do so, like including LGBTQ individuals, they didn't understand why because rape only happens to heterosexual females. Granted this was one person bu...... reply
I am sorry I need to intervene. People seem to confuse real rape and rape fantasies. Sorry to state the truth but Rape and domination fantasies are common. Here is the truth behind rape fantasies, and you can ask any psychologist, they will tell you that: since sexuality is often inconsciously or not linked to guilt, in rape fantasy, the person who...... 2 reply
I see a lot of people bashing you for confusing fiction with reality but if I got your point right, that is not what you are doing it. What I understand you point as problematic is how some people deny that it's rape what they are reading.
I was reading this story another day where the guy ( that was by the way a lovable character, not even the ty...... 1 reply
Learn to separate fiction from reality. Rape is bad in real life, we all know that. But that doesn't mean fantasies about it are also bad. There are people that actually enjoy rape play, but would never actually rape someone that's unwilling. 5 reply
I agree it's a concern, and a very valid one. A lot of the time I just won't read the comments, even though rape and dub-con are kinks of mine. It does bother me when people defend it as if it was good or romantic, rather than just admit, "That was hot/well-written/evocative, even if it's messed up."
I think part of it comes down to that: Sometime...... 3 reply
You are quite right about that. What scares me the most is the extent to which they'd go in order to defend it. I can take the whole ' its fiction' (even though that can still be a lousy excuse which can have real, deeper consequences in the world), but then they're like "oh but they fell in love in the end" or "it didn't really look like he hated ...... 2 reply