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* Approximately one-half inverted in the novel ''[[Outlander (novel)|Outlander]]'' (''Cross Stitch'' in the UK) - it's for a man, and the villain compelling it would much rather it be rape, as he's a sexual sadist.
* In [[The Hunger Games]], this is more or less how {{spoiler|Finnick began his career as a Capitol Casanova.}} Eventually, he decided that it would be less painful just to go with it and pretend that it was his idea.
* In one of the ''[[Anita Blake]]'' novels, the villain says he will stop torturing the two teenage hostages if Jason (the group's pet werewolf) has sex with his two female minions. Subverted in that Jason ''does'' agree, and seems to be enjoying
* Played with in [[Lois McMaster Bujold|Bujold's]] short story ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Labyrinth]]'', when 'Admiral' Miles Naismith is obliged to have sex with an eight foot tall (he is a [[Squishy Wizard|physically fragile]] four-foot-nine hunchback), fanged, clawed [[Super Soldier]] in the hopes of keeping her from killing... herself.
** ''Really'' subverted, since Miles has a thing for very tall women, and no problem with Taura's...uniqueness. They even have one last night together after reaching safety. In fact, Miles and Taura apparently got along so well after this that she was invited to his wedding and bonded with his mother.
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* In the novel ''[[Blindness]]'' by José Saramago, a gang of blind inmates led by the only man with a gun takes over the quarantined abandoned asylum, threatening the other residents, and stealing and hoarding all the food supplies. Eventually they demand payment in valuables, and then in women. {{spoiler|The women volunteer to go, as a group, in order to save the lives of all the other people living there.}}
* In "L'Ingénu" by Voltaire, the title character is sent to prison without reason and his lover, Miss Saint Yves, decides to free him. {{spoiler|She pleads her case before a bishop who agrees in exchange for... well, you know. She does it, and gets her man back, but dies soon after without having told the truth}}.
* ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' features 2 examples of
* Although [[Dracula]] can put women in a trance before he bites them, the third time he bites (and metaphorically rapes) Mina, he leaves her completely aware and instead threatens to kill her unconscious husband lying next to her if she resists or screams for help. [[For the Evulz]]?
* In the backstory of the ''Tide Lords'' novels, Arkady was given a choice of this type by the Duke of Lebec to save her father from prison. Unfortunately, while the Duke kept his word, Arkady's father died of natural causes before the release order reached the prison. Unusually, there was explicitly no sex involved in this example. The Duke was gay in a violently homophobic culture, so he needed a wife to act as [[The Beard]].
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* Also used in ''[[Il Trovatore]]'', by Count Di Luna. Who wants female lead Leonora to marry him in exchange for the freedom of Gypsy troubadour Manrico (who is [[Luke, I Am Your Father|his long-lost brother]], but the count has no idea.) This being opera, it ends [[Tear Jerker|in tears]] and one huge [[Ironic Hell]].
* Toward the end of ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'', Judge Brack very ambiguously blackmails Hedda into this, which is odd, because she seemed attracted to him. She [[Driven to Suicide|shoots herself]], not because she doesn't want to sleep with him, but because she doesn't want to be ''forced'' to do anything.
* In Jean Racine's tragedy ''Britannicus'', Nero falls in love with Junie. He has absolute power over her and her lover, Britannicus. Nero tells Junie to break up with
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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== Webcomic ==
* Although he's not precisely a villain, Jasper apparently pulls this in [[The Zombie Hunters]]
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]],'' Violet is being forced to marry Olaf (in a play so no one will object to her being so young) because he has her sister Sunny and will kill her if she doesn't. Although Olaf is specifically marrying her for the money and doesn't seem to have sex in mind primarily, there are still several disturbing innuendos: Olaf utters the quite [[Squick
* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'': Erik threatens to [[Love Makes You Evil|blow up the Opera House and everyone in it]] if Christine doesn't marry him. She tries to kill herself, and it's not until her fiancé Raoul is dying in Erik's [[Drowning Pit]] that she vows to be Erik's "living wife" if he spares Raoul. Unusually, it's Erik himself who introduces [[Take a Third Option|the third option]] by deciding [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]].
** However, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical and [[The Movie|movie version]], the phantom imposes the ultimatum himself.
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