Double Standard Rape (Female on Female): Difference between revisions

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'''Double Standard Rape (Female on Female)''' is in large part based on the idea that [[No True Scotsman|lesbian sex is not "real" sex]]. Men, penises, and penile penetration are central to sexual relations; without a penis involved, there can be no sex, and without sex, there can be no rape. [[Insane Troll Logic|Therefore, anything a woman does to another woman is "not a big deal"]].

== Internet ==

* Mugglenet.com, a Harry Potter fansite, has a section for editorials about shipping. The submission rules indicate that essays about particularly squicky pairings would be turned away, including those containing incest, bestiality, and ''underage characters with adults''. Fair enough. Except that one essay made a case for [[Crack Pairing|Luna x Trelawney]]. I guess that doesn't count under the very clear "no underage characters with adult characters" rule, somehow?

 

== Literature ==

* Invoked in ''[[Aimee]]''.

* In ''[[The Big U]]'' by [[Neal Stephenson]], when the male college students drug Sara and try to engage in sexual activity it's rape, but when her female friend rescues her from them and then engages in sexual activity with the same drugged individual, [[Intimate Healing|it's for the best]].

* Averted in ''[[The Dark Tower|Wizard And Glass]]'', in which Rhea's erotic pawing of an unwilling Susan is the first demonstration of the old witch's [[Complete Monster]] status.

* ''[[Kushiels Dart]]'' has a complicated version: Phedre informs the reader that rape is an unforgivable act of treason in her culture. Yet when {{spoiler|Melisande drugs her and commits sex acts that could arguably be rape before selling her into slavery}} this act is never considered rape despite a cultural understanding that both men and women can be sexually dominant and powerful. It becomes gray since Phedre is a professional submissive, and was under contract to Melisande. Melisande did honor the letter of the contract, including the safe word, and knew damn well Phedre was {{spoiler|a trained spy, working for her enemy}}, and Phedre does obviously views what happened as a violation despite no using her safeword, but she also doesn't brush it off because of Melisande's gender.