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In fiction, abuse can be fun. Even sexy. The victims are fictional anyway, and only real people have real rights.
People who would never enjoy horrors committed against ''real'' people can often enjoy the suffering of ''fictional'' individuals, and many authors fully take this into account. '''Romanticized Abuse''' is abuse [[Playing to The Fetishes]]. This can happen on four levels:
# Civilization: A [[Planet of Hats]] or particularly grim [[Fetish Fuel Future]].
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A subtrope of [[Playing to The Fetishes]]: Sexual abuse ''not'' designed to be sexy & appealing is ''not'' this trope. Compare ''and'' contrast [[Casual Kink]] as well as [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]], for characters who live out BDSM fantasies ''and'' show the kind of ethical restraint needed in [[Real Life]]. Note that abuse played for [[Fetish Fuel]] is rarely played ''only'' for [[Fetish Fuel]]. It is often a mix of [[Fetish Fuel]], [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[Fetish Retardant]], [[Nausea Fuel]] and so on, and the [[Fetish Fuel]] component is sometimes calculated to maximize the horror value.
A stock trait of [[Horny Devils]]. Compare [[Friendly Tickle Torture]] for the PG version. Contrast [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]]. Contrast [[Hollywood Masochism]], since the Romanticized Abuse is clearly
[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]!
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Slave World]]'' covers all four levels. On the civilization level, the entire slaveworld is this kind of grim [[Fetish Fuel Future]]. On the organization level, the army of England is designed to maintain social order by turning uppity serfs into [[Sex Slave]] [[
* Most civilizations on ''[[Gor]]'' seem to be built with this as one of their basic premises.
* Most novels by the [[Marquis de Sade]] (the guy "sadism" is named after) stays strictly in Romanticized Abuse territory, being about unrestrained sadism rather than [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual|mutual]] sadomasochism. It's all played for [[Fetish Fuel]] and political satire about how hypocritical, oppressive and unjust the socioeconomic system really was.
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** The ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' supplement ''Ghouls'' continues the tradition.
* The [[New World of Darkness]] book ''Inferno'', covering demons, is based on the seven deadly sins, and the "lust" part is designed for creating characters (of either gender) who fit this trope.
* ''[[Geist: The Sin Eaters]]'' supplement ''Book Of The Dead'' is about realms of the dead. One of them is a very friendly place called Oppia, which offers an abundance of food and [[Sex Slave
== [[Video Games]] ==
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