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An excuse for rape, used by a character. Used in at least three situations:
* When a rapist denies that
* When a rape is occurring, and the victim first protests and then starts having fun.
* When a character is raped until they like it and can't get enough of it.
There are real people who believe these things make rape into not-rape, or at least make it excusable. The law doesn't see it that way, and a person whose morals really justify violating a person's consent for fun is hardly moral at all, never mind how the victim feels
Do not confuse this with [[Victim Falls For Rapist]]: the latter is about a rape setting up characters as a couple, even though one or both of them, as well as outsiders, know and acknowledge that it was rape. This trope is about the situation where the rapist and/or outsiders deny that it was a rape at all, because the victim became physically aroused or climaxed.
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It should also not be confused with "rape ''fantasy''", which is exactly that - a ''fantasy'' situation acted out by two (or more) parties ''with mutual consent''. Just because someone is into this kind of fantasy roleplay does ''not'' mean they are "asking for it."
Unfortunately, this trope will often lead to [[Double Standard Rape (Female
Turns up often in Hentai, [[Boys Love Genre]] and [[Fanfic
{{Noreallife|incriminate yourself elsewhere (your local police would be interested), and don't use this page to smear the reputations of other people.}}
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* As seen in the image, used by [[Fate/stay
* In the H-manga ''Warau Kangofu'', the protagonist gets raped by a [[Hospital Hottie]], returns the favor in the next chapter, and upon getting better and getting released from the hospital promises to get sick again so he can come back and see her once more. Said hottie herself {{spoiler|gets gang-raped by three other men (one of the men being an [[Fan Disservice|old man]] doesn't help) and finds it humiliating that she's enjoying the rape.}}
* ''[[Battle Vixens]]'', the "[[Macekre|translation]]" of ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' had the line "It's not rape if you smile behind the tears
* ''Berry Ecstasy'' {{spoiler|has this as its [[A Worldwide Punomenon|climax]], providing the [[Hand Wave]] of sheer masochism}}.
* Invoked by [[Big Bad|Akai]] in ''Kite'' just to twist the knife a little bit deeper while he rapes the protagonist Sawa in front of her fellow assassin and would-be suitor Oburi.
* This is brought up by Brick after the virginal protagonist in ''Bondage Queen Kate'' protests while being raped in the first [[OVA]]. To make it worse, she had been given a powerful aphrodisiac immediately before.
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* ''Words Worth'': This is highlighted in an exchange between Prince Astral of the Shadow Tribe and Maria of the light tribe, the former genuinely confused that the latter would consider his taking her while she was chained to the wall (she was prisoner of war, at the time), and protesting the entire time, rape.
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'''Maria: (flustered)''' "Sh-shut up, you! And anyway, that was my body talking! Against my own will!"
'''Astral:''' "But that's ridiculous!"
'''Maria: (grins snidely)''' "You actually think I ''enjoyed'' having some nasty Shadow man [[Buffy-Speak|thingy]] inside me?! Heh, you must be crazy!" }}
* In ''[[
* ''Painfully'' deconstructed in ''[[Sakura Gari]]'', where we get to see the psychological consequences that such a trope brings on the victim - and arguably,
* Invoked in ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]''.
* ''Bible Black'' is one of the more infamous hentai to include this. Most rape scenes either eventually turn into consensual sex scenes, or are treated as such (aside from the screaming). The [[H
* In [[Yosuga no Sora]], Nao rapes Haruka while they're young teens. Afterwards she begins putting her clothes back on, while he's still sort of on his back apparently not knowing what to do. Later he chases after her, and although she feels ashamed, he tells her he enjoyed it.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Girl in the Library: Until The Pure You Falls From Grace]]'' Masami rapes Yukiha and blackmails her into being his [[Sex Slave]]. However, Yukiha begins to enjoy it and after her boyfriend fails to satisfy her, she dumps him to be Masami's [[Happiness in Slavery|sex slave willingly]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* A recurring theme in the ''[[Housewives At Play]]'' adult comic book.
* In the [[Fritz the Cat (
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* Sort of experienced by George in ''[[
* The author and Ronan believe this in [[
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* Every fandom has fics like this
* In ''[[
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== [[Film]] ==
* Perhaps most controversially used in Sam Peckinpah's ''[[Straw Dogs]]'', in which the unfulfilled wife of a nebbish professor is raped by her brawny former boyfriend and, midway through, begins to enjoy it due to her lingering affection for the man.
* Similarly in the Russ Meyer film ''Lorna'' the titular character is raped by an escaped convict and starts to enjoy it. She subsequently invites the man back to her home for sex.
* Several ''[[James Bond (
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* In ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'', it looks like Elizabeth is about to be raped by the monster... but once she sees the size of his schlong, she doesn't seem too horrified.
▲* In ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'', it looks like Elizabeth is about to be raped by the monster... but once she sees the size of his schlong, she doesn't seem too horrified. Never-mind the necrophilia implications! She later expresses longing for the creature and {{spoiler|eventually marries it}}
▲{{quote| '''Elizabeth''': "''I'm a... I -''"<br />
▲''ZZZIP (Monster unzips his pants)''<br />
▲'''Elizabeth''': "''...oh my god! Woof!''"<br />
"Ohhhhhhh sweet mystery of life, at last I've found youuuuuuu!" }}
*
* In ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', Frank N. Furter sleeps with
▲* In ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', Frank N. Furter sleeps with {{spoiler|both Brad and Janet}}. To do this, he disguises himself as the other character and gets frisky. When the disguises come off, they initially object, then give in.
▲{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Janet''':}} "Oh, STOP... I mean help..."}}
* Possibly in the movie ''[[Carrie]]'', when the title character was conceived. {{spoiler|Carrie's mother Margaret}} is an extreme religious fanatic who finds sex within marriage objectionable, and may be crying rape because of her overdriven sense of sexual guilt.
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* Also shows up in ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'':
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* In ''[[Monty
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'''Mother:''' "Well, at first, yes." }}
* In ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]],'' Lewis (a nerd) commits [[Rape By Fraud]] against head-cheerleader Betty by disguising himself as her mean boyfriend, Stan (the quarterback). He reveals himself to her immediately after, she is so overwhelmed by Lewis's sexual expertise that she falls in love with him. This was lampshaded in a ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch.
* In ''[[Gone
▲* In ''[[Gone With the Wind]],'' Rhett Butler rapes his wife Scarlett, but the next day she's blushing blissfully about it. This also counts as [[Values Dissonance]] since the idea of [[Marital Rape License|marital rape being a crime]] is a very new concept and was not around at the time the book or movie were made.
* In the ''[[Hanzo The Razor]]'' trilogy of films (starring Shintaro Katsu of the [[Zatoichi]] series), the titular policeman interrogates women by raping them until his massive penis has brought them to such ecstasy that they cannot refuse telling him whatever he wants to know.
* In ''[[Rob Roy]]'', [[Tim Roth|Archie]] (the villain) is speculating on various possible fathers, one of whom "lifted [his mother's] skirts at a masque ball." When Archie's girlfriend, shocked, replies "He ravished her?" Archie simply says "I would put it no higher than surprise." Later on, when Archie rapes the hero's wife, Brian Cox shows up to tell her that it doesn't count as a sin (of adultery) if she didn't enjoy it. Even further on, Archie taunts Rob by musing if Mary enjoyed it somewhat.
* In ''[[High Plains Drifter]]'', the third thing [[Clint Eastwood]]'s character does after riding into town is to drag off a woman who was harassing him and force himself on her. Halfway through the act she starts kissing him enthusiastically. Later she comes after him with a
* ''The Killer Inside Me'': Joyce starts hitting Lou, Lou hits her back, and then shoves her down on the bed and starts beating her with his belt. It's awful... until he apologizes, looking shocked at himself, and she tells him it's OK and kisses him. They then begin an S&M relationship.
* A borderline case occurs in ''Unfaithful'' (the American remake of "La Femme infidèle"); wife Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) is walking out on Paul Martel (Olivier Martinez) to stop her affections from developing further. Martel angrily chases her out of his apartment, slams her against the wall, and starts forcibly kissing and groping her. She struggles at first, then quickly submits [[Your Cheating Heart|to her infidelity]].
* In ''[[Lust, Caution]]'', the heroine ends up falling in love with the man she's been ordered to sleep with and whose idea of intimacy is to take her by force.
* In ''[[Dreamscape]]'', people have the ability to visit other people's dreamworlds while they're asleep by way of psychic abilities. Alex uses this trope as his rationalization for covertly inserting himself into Jane's dreams to make her think she was having a sex fantasy about him, rather than making out with the real life person. The fact that she enjoyed herself doesn't negate the fact that he just basically raped her ([[Mind Rape]]?), as she was in no position to give informed consent.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Used in [[Ayn Rand]]'s ''[[The Fountainhead]]''. In her own words, Ayn Rand declares "If it is rape, then it is rape by engraved invitation." Through the use of subtle advances, the heroine basically does everything an upstanding woman of the 1920s can do short of ripping off her clothes and humping his leg to get his attention - without ever explicitly consenting. Given that she repeatedly refers to it as rape after the fact, yet seems to be proud of the experience, it probably suffices to say that Rand had some odd ideas about sex and consent.
* Tylin to Mat in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]''. A truly horrifying example in which the victim keeps on seeking help from his (female) friends who are awesomely powerful mages that owe him their lives... and they laugh at him, telling him he "deserves" to be repeatedly raped (for offenses which include having been a flirt in his teenage years, and the aforementioned ''saving their lives''). It is only after he has had a personal breakdown from these events, recovered from it, escaped (saving his
* One of many rape tropes present in the ''[[Outlander (
▲* Tylin to Mat in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]''. A truly horrifying example in which the victim keeps on seeking help from his (female) friends who are awesomely powerful mages that owe him their lives... and they laugh at him, telling him he "deserves" to be repeatedly raped (for offenses which include having been a flirt in his teenage years, and the aforementioned ''saving their lives''). It is only after he has had a personal breakdown from these events, recovered from it, escaped (saving his ingrateful alleged "friends" once again), and several other events have happened that someone gives the women in question a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech and makes them apologize... [[Ignored Epiphany|which they use as simply another opportunity to insult Mat.]] Most chilling of all, the author seems to agree with this treatment.
* [[Classical Mythology]] features a lot of this between Zeus and many women, be they maidens or a [[Happily Married]]; the King of All Gods is [[Understatement|kind of difficult to turn down.]] Many of the incidents weren't entirely non-consensual, though this understandably makes little difference to many people, and the incidents involving Zeus turning into a swan and bull were especially bad by the standard.
▲* One of many rape tropes present in the ''[[Outlander (Literature)|Outlander]]'' series. Jack Randall purposefully alternates between brutal sadism and romantic attentions, in an attempt to elicit a physical response from his male victim, and he succeeds. Jamie is left disturbed, confused, and furious. (Though at least one reader has ended up pleading this trope in Randall's defence...) In another instance, with a female making the advances and without the sadism, Geilis quite clearly takes advantage of Ian during ''Voyager''. Other characters seem ambivalent about this, in what appears to be [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]. We hope.
**
** For what it may or may not be worth, whenever there is [[Child by Rape|a child resulting from said union]] (and there ''always'' is), the child is raised with love and pride to be a great hero.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Carrie]]'', as described in the entry for the film.
* A weird example in another King book, ''[[The Dark Tower
* ''[[Gone
* Subverted in ''[[
* From the ''[[Discworld]]'':
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"There is a difference?"
"It's more a matter of approach, I understand." said the historian. "I don't believe there were ever any actual complaints." }}
* ''[[Speak]]'': Andy Evans pulls this on Melinda in [[The Climax]], right before trying to rape her. {{spoiler|Again. This time, she kicks his ass.}}
* Not precisely this trope, but in Vladimir Nabokov's ''[[Lolita]]'', the eponymous character initiates her first sexual encounter with the narrator, inviting him to play "a game she learned at camp"
* In [[
* Averted in ''[[The Guardians]]''. When vampires drink, it is the blood donor who chooses whether to resist or invite the [[Blood Lust]]. Over the course of the series, several vampires are forced to have sex they don't want, and depending on the circumstances it's treated as anything from a tragedy to outright rape.
* In the ''Hurog'' series by Patricia Briggs, Ward is very uncomfortable discussing what happened to him while he was a prisoner. Another character reassures him that he shouldn't feel guilty or question his sexuality; rape is rape, no matter if his body enjoyed it or not.
* Subverted in Henry Sackerman's ''The Love Bomb'': Two men grab a woman and have their way with her. She puts up a fight, but ends up enjoying it. {{spoiler|This was an elaborate sexual roleplay planned in advance by the woman: She had a bit of a fetish for putting up token resistance, and chose two implicitly trusted fuckbuddies whom she thought might enjoy it for the scenario.}}
* A subversion on ''[[30
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* ''How Like a God'' almost hits this trope, but the protagonist has just enough decency left to reconsider. (It helps that [[Mind Control|the issue of consent's even iffier here than normal]].)
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': In the fifth book, Asha Greyjoy is seemingly raped by one of her crewmen. Halfway through the scene, it becomes clear that she enjoys it and that the seeming rapist is her long-time lover. Apparently, she considers this par for the course in their relationship
** Also notable in that, despite the series being wall-to-wall with rape, this is the only instance that is described on the page.
* One of the most disconcerting parts about ''Push'': Precious recalls her father raping her and vividly remembers enjoying it in parts, despite the awful shame and self-loathing that came with it (not to mention the two [[Incest Is Relative|pregnancies]]).
* Played disturbingly straight (despite [[Aliens Made Them Do It]], and all the ''more'' so for the fact that they end up as an [[Official Couple]]) in ''[[Stardoc]]'' with {{spoiler|Cherijo and Duncan}}. And again in ''Bio Rescue'' (in the same '[[The Verse|verse]], but not the same series) with {{spoiler|[[Our Mermaids Are Different|Dair and Onkar]]}}...only without [[Aliens Made Them Do It]], {{spoiler|and with the addition of [[Child
* Near the end of ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'', the latest Aureliano is unable to cope with his attraction to Amaranta Ursula, who is his aunt and who he believes to be his sister, and rapes her while her husband is in the other room. She tries to fight him off at first, but ends up enjoying it so much that her feelings of love are transferred from her husband over to him.
* ''[[Invisible Man (
▲== Live Action TV ==
* This trope is [[Discussed Trope|often discussed]] on ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', especially when there are male rape victims. "Arousal is not consent", or words to that effect, are often heard in these situations. Specific examples include:
** When three female white collar workers are accused of raping a male stripper. Lots of politics get flung around at the bail hearing, until the judge declares that women's rights have moved forward enough for women to also take responsibility as potential sexual predators.
** There's another episode where a man is raped by another man and doesn't want his girlfriend to know about it because he climaxed.
* In ''[[Picket Fences]]'', a woman rapes a man, and the police are [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* This trope makes up the plot of [[
* May play a factor in the very complicated consent dynamics between Spike and Buffy in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', including a [[Broken Base|polarising]] exploration of how even within a (
** Spike learned his habits with Drusilla:
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* This is literally the rapist Dean's defense when Paige Michalchuk sues him for rape in ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]''.
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'''Paige''': (hesitating) Yes. I did. Before.
'''Dean's Lawyer''':My client put his hand inside your blouse, did you immediately reject him? Slap him? For the record, please.
'''Paige''': No.
'''Dean's Lawyer''': This is very difficult for you I know, but when my client touched your breast how did you respond? Did you enjoy it?
'''Paige''': (hesitating) No. Well, at first...yeah.
'''Dean's Lawyer''': You're telling us that you did. Ms. Michalchuk. }}
** Needless to say, Dean's lawyer was a total bitch and an [[Amoral Attorney]], and the judge believed Paige and thought the lawyer was a moron. He only won because there were no witnesses or physical evidence to back up Paige's story, since she waited so long to report the rape in the first place.
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* The defense used by the people who run the Dollhouse in ''[[Dollhouse]]'' is that when Actives are sent on romantic engagements, they genuinely love the clients and willingly have sex with them, having no idea that they've been hired out rather than being in long-term relationships with the clients or that their own memories and personalities are constructs.
** Agent Ballard disagrees, of course, and feels terrible about sleeping with {{spoiler|Mellie}} after learning that she's an Active. He also refuses to have sex with Echo, a self-aware Active who has integrated her imprint personalities, because he doesn't think it's right while her original personality, Caroline, is still missing.
* Averted in ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' (in tandem with an aversion of [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* ''[[Rescue Me]]'''s third season episode "Sparks" features Tommy in an argument with his ex-wife over the ownership of some property, all of which Tommy insists are his, and basically tells his ex-wife "You're mine", rips off her panties and forces himself on her
* Discussed in the first episode of ''[[
* [[Cracker]] had a discussion something along the lines of:
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Fitz: "I've had a hard-on from the vibrations of a bus, it doesn't mean I want to shag the conductor."
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* [[Nightmare Fuel|The Childcatcher]], from the song of the same name by [[Patrick Wolf]], claims this.
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''Well I've got no time for victims and I don't think it was all that bad''
''If you can't run to save yourself then you deserve to be had [...]''
''And I think you even enjoyed it, I think I even saw you come''
* Vince Staples on the song "epaR" by [[OFWGKTA|Earl Sweatshirt]].
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''Look, you know it's not rape if you like it, bitch''
''So sit down like a pretty ho and don't fight the shit''
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Victim Falls For Rapist|The Robber Bridegroom]]''{{context}}▼
* ''[[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|The Rape of Lucreze]]''
** A similar discussion is seen near the end of ''[[Titus Andronicus (
* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' alludes to this. There has been much debate over what happens between Christine and the Phantom after the lights go out at the conclusion of "Music Of The Night"
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* The [[Neverwinter Nights]] mod series ''The Bastard of Kosigan'' has a couple of scenes that can play out this way. If the player has a high enough Charisma and chooses the violent rape option with Diane in the forest north of Cologne, the following text is something along the lines of "she is a lot less reluctant than she should be."▼
▲* ''[[Victim Falls For Rapist|The Robber Bridegroom]]''
** In ''A Dance With Rogues''', if you lead Vico along enough in the second mod the scene in the dwarven inn will play out a lot like a rape scene, and you have the option of fighting him off or going along (which locks you into a romance with him).▼
▲* ''[[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|The Rape of Lucreze]]''. Where it's debated whether a rape victim is pure or not; after all, she might have enjoyed it. Only through [[Driven to Suicide|killing]] [[Redemption Equals Death|herself]] is the stain removed. Yeah, [[Values Dissonance|there's a reason this one isn't talked about as much as Shakespeare's other works.]]
* [[Embric of Wulfhammers Castle]] sees the Duchess raped by a woman; she acknowledges that it was rape, and does accuse Carmina of raping her, but the fact that she enjoyed it (and doesn't mind describing it in erotic detail for her maid to arouse herself with later) is [[Double Standard Rape (Female
▲** A similar discussion is seen near the end of ''[[Titus Andronicus (Theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]'', ending in [[The Reveal]] via the [[Tragic Hero]] [[Values Dissonance|casually killing his daughter]].
▲* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' alludes to this. There has been much debate over what happens between Christine and the Phantom after the lights go out at the conclusion of "Music Of The Night"--and if there WAS sex, it would be rape, as Christine was alternately unconscious/in a trance at the time. When Christine describes the encounter to Raoul, she states that though she is terrified of the Phantom, she is equally drawn to him by his beautiful music. There's also [[Alternative Character Interpretation|debate]] over whether the Phantom is even physically capable of having sex.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* One of the ''[[Ask That Guy With
▲* The [[Neverwinter Nights]] mod series The Bastard of Kosigan has a couple of scenes that can play out this way. If the player has a high enough Charisma and chooses the violent rape option with Diane in the forest north of Cologne, the following text is something along the lines of "she is a lot less reluctant than she should be."
▲** In A Dance With Rogues, if you lead Vico along enough in the second mod the scene in the dwarven inn will play out a lot like a rape scene, and you have the option of fighting him off or going along (which locks you into a romance with him).
▲* [[Embric of Wulfhammers Castle]] sees the Duchess raped by a woman; she acknowledges that it was rape, and does accuse Carmina of raping her, but the fact that she enjoyed it (and doesn't mind describing it in erotic detail for her maid to arouse herself with later) is [[Double Standard Rape Female On Female|just]] [[Victim Falls For Rapist|one]] [[Mind Rape|of the]] [[All Just a Dream|mitigating]] [[Girl On Girl Is Hot|factors]] [[Yuri Genre|involved]].
▲== Web Original ==
▲* One of the ''[[Ask That Guy With the Glasses (Web Video)|Ask That Guy]]'' segments had the question "If you rape a prostitute, is it rape or just theft?". He claims that he raped a prostitute and was charged for both crimes, with his defense being that she enjoyed it just as much as he did.
* The first variation is used in ''[[Dept Heaven Apocrypha]]'' when the villain [[Invoked Trope|makes sure a character he's raping climaxes]], then uses it to [[Mind Rape|torture that character mentally]]. The scene is played for [[Nightmare Fuel]], and shortly after, the victim loses his mind completely. The results are not pretty.
* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' Version 3, Adam Reeves attempts to justify his rape of Maxie Dasai by asserting that her body's arousal meant that she was into it. It's left ambiguous, but strongly implied that he brought her to orgasm (Reeves himself certainly thought so). [[Complete Monster|He is the only one that thought it was okay]].
* [[Literotica]] [[Enforced Trope|enforces the trope]]. It won't allow stories to be tagged with the word "rape," and it won't allow stories where a rape victim doesn't enjoy it. If the rape victim ''does'' enjoy it, however, it's classified as "nonconsent" instead.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* While there was no actual sex, there was a somewhat arguable example in ''[[Collar 6]]''. Sixx drugged Laura without her knowledge, and had Ginger molest her. Even though Laura was already in a submissive relationship with Sixx, this led to a [[Dude, Not Funny]] reaction, and eventually the author had Sixx apologize, and realize that what she'd been doing was wrong.
* ''[[Kit
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