Rape Tropes

""By its very nature, rape displays a "total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy" of the victim; 'short of homicide, [it is] the "ultimate violation of self.'" Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584, 597, 603 (1977). Along with other forms of sexual assault, it belongs to that class of indignities against the person that cannot ever be fully righted, and that diminishes all humanity.""

- Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles, 54 Cal.3d 202,222 (1991)

Rape is one of the more difficult subjects to handle in a work of fiction, not least because (unlike, say, murder) there is a chance that one of the work's readers has experienced this crime first-hand. For the most part, the tropes that have been collected here describe less sensitive and sometimes downright backwards depictions of rape.

For obvious reasons, many of these tropes are also subtropes of Moral Event Horizon.

Tropes

 * Aliens Made Them Do It
 * All Abusers Are Male
 * All Men Are Rapists
 * Anal Probing
 * And Now You Must Marry Me
 * Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
 * Attempted Rape
 * Bastard Girlfriend
 * Bathe Her and Bring Her To Me
 * Bed Trick - because someone is deceived into having sex, the sex is nonconsensual.
 * Black Comedy Rape
 * Double Standard Rape (Male On Male)
 * But Liquor Is Quicker - see Date Rape below.
 * Chastity Dagger
 * Child By Rape
 * Date Rape
 * Date Rape Averted
 * Defiled Forever
 * Double Standard Rape (Divine On Mortal)
 * Double Standard Rape (Female On Female)
 * Double Standard Rape (Female On Male)
 * Double Standard Rape (Sci Fi)
 * Droit Du Seigneur
 * Dude, She's Like, in A Coma
 * False Rape Accusation
 * Fate Worse Than Death
 * Gratuitous Rape
 * Honor-Related Abuse
 * I Have You Now, My Pretty
 * It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It
 * Love Potion
 * Marital Rape License
 * Mate or Die
 * Medical Rape and Impregnate
 * Memetic Molester
 * Mind Rape
 * Murderers Are Rapists
 * Near-Rape Experience
 * Netorare
 * Old Man Marrying a Child
 * Pedophile Priest
 * Post-Rape Taunt
 * Prison Rape
 * Rape and Revenge
 * Rape and Switch
 * Rape As Backstory
 * Child By Rape
 * Rape As Drama
 * Rape As Redemption
 * Rape By Proxy
 * Rape Discretion Shot
 * Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
 * Rape Leads to Insanity
 * Rape, Pillage and Burn
 * Romanticized Abuse
 * Scarpia Ultimatum
 * Sex Slave
 * Sexual Extortion
 * Slipping a Mickey - This trope is not always associated with rape, but it often is.
 * Victim Falls For Rapist
 * The Women Are Safe With Us
 * You're Not My Type
 * You Would Make a Great Model