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=== Literature ===
* Happens to Odysseus in ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''. After Circe had turned all his men into animals, Odysseus attacked her with his sword. She was surprised by this, but laughed at his futile attempt to fight and made him her lover. Afterwards his men were turned back into people and they all quite happily spent a year feasting on her island. The alternate myth (used in Homer's version), has Odysseus raping Circe (on the advice of Hermes) after using a magic plant to become immune to her powers.
** Later in the story, after he was the [[Sole Survivor]] of his crew, the muse Calypso found him and forced him to be ''her'' lover. She tried to convince him to genuinely love her, but eventually realized it was pointless, and let him go.
=== Mythology and Religion ===
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** Just to make it weirder: this was actually the standard conception story for the Pharaohs, it's just that normally, a boy was begotten. This meant that it was, in fact, quite possible that any woman married to a Pharaoh was hoping for this to happen: this, and not birth order, supposedly determined whom the heir was.
* Another example of this is the moon goddess Selene, who placed the lovely youth Endymion into an eternal sleep so that he could be immortal and proceeded to give birth to fifty daughters by him.
* According to some sources, Poseidon raped Medusa—who was [[Disproportionate Retribution|punished for it]] by Athena, in whose temple it had happened, by being transformed into a Gorgon. In fact, many stories suggest Poseidon was almost as bad as his brother, his numerous paramours being lucky that Amphitrite was not the jealous and vindictive wife Hera was.
* In some versions of the [[Cassandra Truth|myth of Cassandra]], the curse that no one would believe her prophecies came about when she refused Apollo's advances. Mind you, the gift of prophecy was something he gave her in an attempt to make her consent, so arguably Apollo was nicer about this than the norm.
* Inverted in the myth explaining the name of the Areopagus: the first trial held there was when Poseidon prosecuted Ares for killing his son Halirrhothios. Depending on the myth, Ares' defence was either that Halirrhothios [[Revenge|had raped]] his daughter Alcippe, or that he was [[Attempted Rape|trying to do so]].
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* "King of Horndogs"? Seriously? [[Plato Is a Moron|Zeus was an ''amateur'' at this]] compared to Krishna, the Eighth Avatar of Vishnu, the god of love and compassion, and according to one interpretation, the supreme god of [[Hinduism]]. One story claims he [[Me's a Crowd| made enough duplicates of himself]] to seduce ''16,000 women at the same time.''
* Ironically, Eros (the Greek god of Love itself) averts this Trope. While one might say he used deception to claim Psyche as his wife (making everyone believe the gods demanded her as a sacrifice for some demon) he proved a faithful and protective husband. Of course, seeing as he ''was'' the god of love (rather than a god of sex or seduction) that might have been the whole idea.
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* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', the giantish god Annam is an [[Expy]] of Zeus and is just as promiscuous, his dalliances with mortal giants giving him a lot of children and causing him no end of headaches from their rivalries. He has no equivalent of Hera, however; some say that for all his power, Annam is a sad and lonely god, as for all the consorts and conquests he's had, he has no true wife to share his divine power with.
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== Might Makes Right examples ==
=== Mythology and Religion ===
* A very indirect example: when King Minos of Crete refused to sacrifice a white bull for Poseidon, Poseidon punishes him by making Minos' wife Pasiphae fall in love with the bull. She had a wooden cow made and climbed inside so [[But You Screw One Goat!|the bull would have sex with her]]. (Ironically, that means ''the bull'' is more sensible than the humans here.) She then later gave birth to a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half human/half bull creature]] that became the Minotaur, while the bull went insane, rampaging through Crete until Hercules came to capture it for his Seventh Labor.
* [[Celtic Mythology]]: Cuchulain was conceived this way allegedly. His mother Deichtine assisted Lugh's wife in labor. For her reward, Lugh impregnated ''her''.
* According to the Tupi people of the Amazon area of present day Brazil, the sun was outraged when early human society was dominated by women. It caused sap from the curura (or puruman) tree to spray on the breast of a virgin named Ceucy, impregnating her with Jurapari (or Jurupari). He declared war on women and tore down the matriarchy. After his victory, Jurapari set up feasts in which the secrets of men?s rule were passed down through the generations. Any women attending were put to death, Ceucy being their first victim. In some versions of the legend, one day Jurupari will find a woman worthy of him and from that day forward, the sexes will be equal.
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