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{{quote|'''Shuichi''': Anyone would cry after what you did! You're a ''rapist,'' you big jerk!<br />

'''Yuki''': Admit it, you liked it! You masochist punk!<br />

'''Shuichi''': [[~~Its~~ Not Rape If You Enjoyed It|I--I couldn't help it! It felt... well... nice.]] ([[Luminescent Blush|blushes]])|'''''[[Gravitation]]''''' manga}}

'''Shuichi''': [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It|I--I couldn't help it! It felt... well... nice.]] ([[Luminescent Blush|blushes]])|'''''[[Gravitation]]''''' manga}}

The idea that people can enjoy being raped and/or will [[Love Martyr|fall in love]] with their rapists as a consequence of the rape. More often than not, the rapist turns out to have acted out of pure love, or winds up loving his/her victim emotionally too.

According to many sexologists, this is a common submissive ''fantasy'' for both women and men, although it certainly does '''NOT''' mean that s/he wants to get raped for real. After all, people who play paintball don't really want to shoot and kill each other. The "rape" remains a fantasy or a [[Safe Sane and Consensual|game]].

According to many sexologists, this is a common submissive ''fantasy'' for both women and men, although it certainly does '''NOT''' mean that s/he wants to get raped for real. After all, people who play paintball don't really want to shoot and kill each other. The "rape" remains a fantasy or a [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual|game]].

It is a staple of published [[Yaoi]] and [[Slash Fic]], in which a disproportionate amount used a rape scene to bring the two male characters together, but can also extend to heterosexual couples and [[Psycho Lesbian|women]]. Also popular in "bodice ripper" [[Romance Novel|romances]], in which resistant women are overwhelmed with passion as men force themselves upon them, though it should be noted that these types of stories were mostly popular in the 70s and 80s and are now, for the most part, considered a [[Dead Horse Genre]] in the romance novel community. The receiving end may rant, protest, push away, cry [[Sparkling Stream of Tears|glistening tears]]... but before the first half of the scene is over, they'll have started cooperating and acknowledging their enjoyment, probably while [[Luminescent Blush|blushing furiously]] . As a famous [[Memetic Mutation|meme goes:]] "It wasn't rape, it was just surprise sex you didn't know you wanted."

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[[No Real Life Examples Please]]

== Anime and Manga ==

* An alarmingly common trope in [[Boys Love|BL]] manga, where the [[Seme]] will often repeatedly attempt to force an [[Uke]] to make out with or even have sex with him, much to the uke's anger and [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today|protests that he's straight]] (which often leads to the seme trying harder just to prove him wrong). It's considered justified in the end because it turns out the seme was right about him, [[Karma Houdini|which apparently invalidates any need for his consent]].

* An alarmingly common trope in [[Boys Love|BL]] manga, where the [[Seme]] will often repeatedly attempt to force an [[Uke]] to make out with or even have sex with him, much to the uke's anger and [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|protests that he's straight]] (which often leads to the seme trying harder just to prove him wrong). It's considered justified in the end because it turns out the seme was right about him, [[Karma Houdini|which apparently invalidates any need for his consent]].

* ''[[Winter Demon]]'' from Yaoi Press featured this with the titular winter demon Fuyu raping a young (male) monk before the manga begins. The monk is forced to seek Fuyu's help in the actual beginning and the pair fall in love. And then as if this counts as [[Rape As Redemption|redemption]] Fuyu is also raped in the first volume.

* In ''[[Okane ga Nai]]'', Kanou rapes Ayase in an attempt to convey his feelings, but Ayase eventually falls in love with him anyways. Then it's played for [[Black Comedy Rape|comedy]] in an extra by having Kanou travel back in time back to the moment of the rape and proceed to attack his past-self for what he is about to do to Ayase. Ayase also gets hit with this trope at nearly every corner, where ''every single straight male'' in this manga either falls in love with and wants to or attempts to rape Ayase. And Ayase, being the living embodiment of [[Too Dumb to Live]] and [[The Ingenue]], only narrowly avoids said rape--when it's not [[Karma Houdini|Kanou]]--by virtue of the people around him who ''don't'' want him to get raped noticing the danger signs. Ironically, the only men who aren't interested in Ayase at all are the gay guys. Who are interested in Kanou.

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* In ''[[After School Nightmare]]'', Sou sexually assaults Mashiro twice--first forcing a kiss on him and later actually attempting to rape him. Mashiro nevertheless falls for him.

* More or less the entire plot of ''[[System Of Romance]]''.

* One [[Girls Love]] example can be found in the manga ''[[Gokujou Drops]]''. [[Moe Moe]] Komari gets frequently molested quite explicitly by [[Tall Dark and Bishoujo]] Yukio despite Komari's protestations. Komari eventually admits to herself that she enjoys it and starts developing strong feelings for Yukio.

* One [[Girls Love]] example can be found in the manga ''[[Gokujou Drops]]''. [[Moe Moe]] Komari gets frequently molested quite explicitly by [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] Yukio despite Komari's protestations. Komari eventually admits to herself that she enjoys it and starts developing strong feelings for Yukio.

* Another such example is ''[[Blue Drop]]''. The [[One Gender Race|Arume]] are not above raping earth women, if only to torture the men, which they seem to dislike pretty much. A lot of women appear to enjoy this quite a bit.

* Another such example is ''[[Blue Drop]]''. The [[One-Gender Race|Arume]] are not above raping earth women, if only to torture the men, which they seem to dislike pretty much. A lot of women appear to enjoy this quite a bit.

* [[Kanokon (Light Novel)|Chizuru really does love Kouta]], but she tends to show it by abducting him (and that part is ''optional'') and trying to rape him.

* One of the later chapters of ''[[Karin]]'' has her brother Ren {{spoiler|forcing a vampire named Bridget to be bent over sticking out a window so she can be burned by the sun wearing, ''very'' revealing clothes. He's crouched over behind her holding her down in a scene that looks a lot like a rape but apparently isn't one. That is, until she calls later and announces she is now pregnant with his son, so they get married.}} ...kay.

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** It was mentioned in a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]''.

* In the ''[[The Tyrant Falls in Love]]'' AU manga ''Aru Hi Mori No Naka'', once Ookami (Souichi) is back to health and Kuma (Morinaga) has made it through the winter, Morinaga thinks the best way to show his love for Souichi is to, you guessed it, rape him. Although, throughout the rape, Souichi believes that Morinaga is actually ''just trying to kill him''. The next morning, after realizing what happened and also being confessed to, Souichi comments, "Are you telling me that you'd force yourself on someone you love?"

* In the ''[[Asatte no Houkou (Manga)|Asatte no Houkou]]'' manga, Amino forces Karada to give him a hand job, and clearly believes that he's doing this out of "love." He later realizes that he was very ''very'' [[My God What Have I Done|wrong]].

* In the ''[[Asatte no Houkou (Manga)|Asatte no Houkou]]'' manga, Amino forces Karada to give him a hand job, and clearly believes that he's doing this out of "love." He later realizes that he was very ''very'' [[My God, What Have I Done?|wrong]].

* In ''[[Samurai 7]]'', the emperor makes a habit of kidnapping farm girls for his harem. One of them [[Heroic Sacrifice|fawns on him so that he will leave the others alone]], but eventually does come to love him anyway, much to the other women's horror. Carrying his baby has something to do with that, but it certainly leads to a complicated relationship with her actual husband when they are reunited, and he can't understand why she would have any positive feelings for the man.

* ''[[Ode to Kirihito]]'' uses this as a symptom of the rapist's madness.

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* [[Tanaka Yutaka]] pretty much puts this concept to the sword in ''Doubt'' (from the [[Virgin Night]] anthology). The first part shows a ''very'' unpleasant impelled sex scene which proves to be [[Poor Communication Kills]]-catalyzed (Tsutsui was making a ''bad'' assumption about Motoko's hesitancy to respond to his desire for sex as merely playing hard-to-get; she wasn't, she was just nervous about proper broaching), and leaves ''both'' Tsutsui and Motoko feeling degraded. The second part, once both participants open up about their desire for each other, is affection and pleasure distillate--and not so much as a cubic micron of anything forced (or, for that matter, hurried). Tanaka isn't really leaving any question as to which form actually fits with long-lasting love.

* The H manga ''Yanagida-kun to Mizuno-san'' plays this not quite straight, but not quite averted either. [[Tsundere|Mizuno]] technically started it, but Yanagida ends up going farther than she wanted. Later, when Mizuno's boyfriend starts badmouthing her to other people at their school, Mizuno sees Yanagida stand up for her (and get beat up for his trouble, naturally). Mizuno later states that it was this situation that made her think better of him, rather than anything directly related to the rape. Not a full aversion, but for an H manga, the slightest aversion to this trope is noteable.

* [[Zig Zagging Trope|Zigzagged]] all over the place with ''[[Corsair (Light Novel)|Corsair]]''. Canale has never began a relationship consensually, and yet distinguishes between Ayace and Sesaam's treatment of him ([[Rape Is Love]]) and everybody else ([[Rape As Drama]]/[[Rape As Backstory]]). Whether he [[~~Its~~ Not Rape If You Enjoyed It|enjoyed it]] or not has nothing to do with it. On top of that, there is one instance with Ayace where it is treated as rape, but the earlier sex scenes aren't, and they resume their relationship as usual afterwards.

* [[Zig Zagging Trope|Zigzagged]] all over the place with ''[[Corsair (Light Novel)|Corsair]]''. Canale has never began a relationship consensually, and yet distinguishes between Ayace and Sesaam's treatment of him ([[Rape Is Love]]) and everybody else ([[Rape As Drama]]/[[Rape As Backstory]]). Whether he [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It|enjoyed it]] or not has nothing to do with it. On top of that, there is one instance with Ayace where it is treated as rape, but the earlier sex scenes aren't, and they resume their relationship as usual afterwards.

** He tends to distinguish it as Ayase and Sesaam being gentle and caring while they have sex with him while everyone else literally tied him up and drugged him. [[Nightmare Fuel|From the age of 10]]. The one time that Ayase is incredibly rough with him out of jealousy is the one time he calls it rape.

* ''[[Bitter Virgin]]'' takes its plot and throws it into the face of this trope, not exactly subverting it, but definitely going against all its different types and forms. As [[The Woobie|Hinako]] could tell you, [[Tear Jerker|rape is definitely not love]].

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* This occurs in ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]'' between [[Dogged Nice Guy|Taisuke]] and [[Fragile Flower|Kotonoha.]] Kotonoha had previously been stood up and cheated on by her [[Jerkass]] boyfriend Makoto, so she was in a major state of depression when Taisuke decided to proposition her. Although it's never shown, it's heavily implied that Taisuke did indeed take advantage of her. Unlike most examples though, Taisuke was under the mistaken assumption that she was actually receptive to his advances and thought the two were now in a relationship. Unfortunately, these combined events led to Kotonoha's [[Despair Event Horizon]].

* It's especially noticeable in sub-genres such as [[Lolicon]] or [[Shotacon]] (shota/loli is especially fond of this). The character will obviously not want to have sex, but is forced into it by their apathetic associates. After it they act like they liked it, shove it off with little or no consideration that it was rape, or just continue to do it.

* A one-shot in the Yaoi collection ''Letters of love'' plays so aggressively and ironically with this trope that it deserves a detailed description here. Kazuhiro is in love with his student, Mikami, so when he catches him going through his desk for what he assumes are the answers to the up-coming test, he decides to blackmail him into having sex with him (intending to rape him if he doesn't). However, when Mikami starts to cry and beg him to stop he realises he can't do this to someone he loves, has an [[My God What Have I Done]] moment and tells him to go home. The next day, he tells Mikami to delete the video he'd taken of him going through his desk, that he's sorry and that he won't tell anyone about him trying to cheat. Mikami asks him why he tried to rape him and Hazuhiro tells him that he loves him but that he doesn't expect him to forgive him... cue Mikami turning on him, having recorded the entire conversation and blackmailing ''him'' into having sex with ''him'' (it turns out Mikumi's a [[Stalker With a Crush]] who was actually rifling through Kzuhiro's desk for ''something that he owned'', was ecstatic about him blackmailing him, has been in love with him for a long time, and intends to ''own him''. [[Yandere|Permanently]]).

* A one-shot in the Yaoi collection ''Letters of love'' plays so aggressively and ironically with this trope that it deserves a detailed description here. Kazuhiro is in love with his student, Mikami, so when he catches him going through his desk for what he assumes are the answers to the up-coming test, he decides to blackmail him into having sex with him (intending to rape him if he doesn't). However, when Mikami starts to cry and beg him to stop he realises he can't do this to someone he loves, has an [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment and tells him to go home. The next day, he tells Mikami to delete the video he'd taken of him going through his desk, that he's sorry and that he won't tell anyone about him trying to cheat. Mikami asks him why he tried to rape him and Hazuhiro tells him that he loves him but that he doesn't expect him to forgive him... cue Mikami turning on him, having recorded the entire conversation and blackmailing ''him'' into having sex with ''him'' (it turns out Mikumi's a [[Stalker With a Crush]] who was actually rifling through Kzuhiro's desk for ''something that he owned'', was ecstatic about him blackmailing him, has been in love with him for a long time, and intends to ''own him''. [[Yandere|Permanently]]).

* Both subverted ''and'' played with in ''Unbalance na Netsu'' by [[Minase Masara]], where the main character, Ryu's, rape is played straight as a traumatic experience that he didn't enjoy. ''Afterwards'', however, Shinya, the rapist, starts to fall in love with him and tries to tell Ryu... who promptly beats him up for drugging and raping him. Eventually though, after taking pity on Shinya, who is younger than him and a temperamental brat, he does grow fond of him and they end up a couple. What's different is that in this manga the normal [[Uke]] and [[Seme]] stereotypes aren't present, the rape is never played as anything other than assault, and Ryu - the [[Uke]] - is the calm and collected one who is in control of the relationship while Shinya is just muddling along, trying not to fuck things up.

* Played with in ''[[Anatolia Story]]''. When Prince Kail initially brings Yuri in to pose as his concubine, he starts trying to have his way with her, despite her fighting back and screaming to stop. When he hears her shout the name of her boyfriend, he stops and she tells him "I love [my boyfriend] and ''hate'' you!" While Yuri does eventually fall in love with Kail, it's much later, and after he starts courting her in ways that are much more like what she tells him twenty-first century dating is like.

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== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[Watchmen]]'' this trope is discussed and alluded to in a very interesting way. The [[Heroic Sociopath|Comedian]] attempted to rape Sally Jupiter (the first Silk Spectre) at the height of the Minutemen's fame; Laurie, Sally's daughter, spends her whole life hating the Comedian after she finds out about it, and is baffled and frustrated by her mother's mellower attitude. {{spoiler|As it turns out, Laurie is the Comedian's illegitimate daughter. Some time after the failed rape attempt, the Comedian tracked Sally down and expressed genuine regret over the incident, and at some point after that, they had a consensual one night stand. Sally then realized she was pregnant and immediately married her agent.}} Sort of a [[Subverted Trope]], in that even decades on, Sally's very conflicted about it, and no one's under any illusions that it redeems the Comedian. It does help to humanize him a little, though..

** The actor who played The Comedian, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, stated that he believed that Edward Blake was "completely in love" with Sally Jupiter, but was also "a screwed-up [[Precision F Strike|motherfucker]]" and didn't know how to handle his feelings for her, and so expressed it the only way he knew how at first, which was through violence.

** The actor who played The Comedian, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, stated that he believed that Edward Blake was "completely in love" with Sally Jupiter, but was also "a screwed-up [[Precision F-Strike|motherfucker]]" and didn't know how to handle his feelings for her, and so expressed it the only way he knew how at first, which was through violence.

* In post-crisis DC continuity, Hercules rapes Hippolyta (and several others Amazons as well) and is transformed into a pillar of load-bearing stone as punishment. When he's finally released, the Amazons are charmed enough by his humility to forgive him. Then he and Hippolyta have a brief romantic relationship. This is in fact more notable for its bizarre use of [[Greek Mythology]] than anything else- rape was one of the few crimes classical Hercules ''didn't'' do, and forgiveness? From the Amazons? About anything? Good luck with that.

* Recently over at DC, the decision was made to make the ''Son of the Bat'' mini-series canon again, but decided to retcon Batman and Talia Al-Ghul's consensual encounter into Talia drugging and raping Bruce in order to conceive their son, Damien. Talia still acts like Bruce was a willing participant, so in at least in her mind it was love. Bruce however isn't all that amused and all but called it rape.

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*** Of course, she could duck the whole thing by running off with [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]], who is openly attracted to her and whom they both know is capable of besting her.

**** Conan has bested her at least once, and was expecting to bed her. She told him "I don't have to enjoy it", which convinced him to give up the attempt.

** Like many fantasy tropes, Phil Foglio used a similar plot in one of his ''[[~~XX Xenophile~~]]'' stories. A sex-starved but battle-hungry woman is cursed by the gods (for some reason) to never be sexually satisfied until a man defeats her in battle. She assumes, because of this, that the first man to defeat her in battle will rape her afterwards. After all the men in the tavern stop coming because they're tired of being constantly beaten by her, the only man left is a mild-mannered fellow who teaches her a chess-like game and subsequently beats her at it. The curse lifts instantly because, as they both find out, the name of the game translates literally as "battle". Happy consensual sex ensues.

** Like many fantasy tropes, Phil Foglio used a similar plot in one of his ''[[XXXenophile]]'' stories. A sex-starved but battle-hungry woman is cursed by the gods (for some reason) to never be sexually satisfied until a man defeats her in battle. She assumes, because of this, that the first man to defeat her in battle will rape her afterwards. After all the men in the tavern stop coming because they're tired of being constantly beaten by her, the only man left is a mild-mannered fellow who teaches her a chess-like game and subsequently beats her at it. The curse lifts instantly because, as they both find out, the name of the game translates literally as "battle". Happy consensual sex ensues.

* A strip of Brazilian comic ''Aline'' had the ([[All Women Are Lustful|horny]]) protagonist reporting to the police: "He raped me! With my consent!"

* In Frank Miller's ''[[The Dark Knight Strikes Again]]'', Wonder Woman and Superman have an ongoing relationship which Wonder Woman explains has its origin in an incident where Superman "Threw me to the ground and claimed me as his rightful prize!" Now, this is a very [[Alternative Character Interpretation|debatable]] example, since that phrase could mean any number of things such as rough sex or the possibility of them having to go through some trials to get to be together (as most readers have interpreted it), but it could also be interpreted as this.

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* In a Pokemon fanfiction named Captured a 17 year old teenager named Ike is caught in a unwanted harem of female Pokemon who rape him. The harem consists of a Mightyena, a Ninetails, a Zangoose and a Lucario who were all outcasts from their clans for one reason or another and in their mating season felt lonely and found Ike wandering in the woods near his home town and captured him to make him their collective mate. The dynamic mentioned in the story is that Lucario is the dominant female. In Lucario's mind she finds Ike's refusal of her love as insulting, all she wanted was a mate but Ike simply views this as a deep-rooted psychological desire on her part to have someone who she can control. Eventually Ike befriends the Zangoose and out of regret for her earlier actions helps him escape the other Pokemon and get back home where his life finally returns to normal.

* In ''The Girl Who Lived'' series, the [[It Makes Sense in Context|druid community]] has a ceremony for when the women come of age, which involves them performing a complicated sex ceremony with their boyfriends while said boyfriends are put under a mind-altering spell that halts their sentience temporarily. It only ''narrowly'' squeaks past this trope because the guys agree to it ahead of time, but it's still very squicky.

* In [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons (Fanfic)|Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]], Ronan essentially commits many rapes of a few different kinds, whether statutory rape (Sakura is presumably as young as she is in canon), the [[Dude She's Like in A Coma]] variety, and even straight-up raping a conscious and unwilling woman. The author seems to believe in this trope and [[~~Its~~ Not Rape If You Enjoyed It]], though, and the female characters do, as well.

* In [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons (Fanfic)|Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]], Ronan essentially commits many rapes of a few different kinds, whether statutory rape (Sakura is presumably as young as she is in canon), the [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma]] variety, and even straight-up raping a conscious and unwilling woman. The author seems to believe in this trope and [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It]], though, and the female characters do, as well.

* Nine times out of ten, any fanfiction of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' involving Kairi getting raped usually ends with her falling in love with the guy who raped her... such as Pete for instance.

* Subverted/Averted with the Sherlock fic "A Reliable Man". (Chapter 1 can be found [http://randomly-rusted.livejournal.com/559.html here].) Mycroft is disturbing, but still sympathetic particularly when he {{spoiler|realizes the [[Break the Cutie|effect]] that his [[What the Hell Hero|threats]] [[Be Careful What You Wish For|have]] on [[My God What Have I Done|Lestrade]].}}

* Subverted/Averted with the Sherlock fic "A Reliable Man". (Chapter 1 can be found [http://randomly-rusted.livejournal.com/559.html here].) Mycroft is disturbing, but still sympathetic particularly when he {{spoiler|realizes the [[Break the Cutie|effect]] that his [[What the Hell, Hero?|threats]] [[Be Careful What You Wish For|have]] on [[My God, What Have I Done?|Lestrade]].}}

== Film ==

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{{quote| '''Elizabeth:''' ''(singing)'' Oh, sweet mystery of life, at least I've found you!}}

* ''Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann'' uses this with the 'going back in time to become your own grandfather' plot. The "grandmother" rapes her "grandson" at gun-point and they develop a relationship.

* In ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'', Louis dons an identical Darth Vader costume as one of his [[Jerk Jock]] rivals and proceeds to have sex with the jock's girlfriend. As she's post-coitally gushing about her "boyfriend's" performance, Louis unmasks himself... ''On top of her''. She expresses dismay at his deception, for about five seconds, before openly marveling that "a nerd" could be that good in bed, and spends the rest of the movie in heat for him. They end up married in subsequent sequels. Played for laughs, but [[Fridge Logic]] quickly turns it into [[Dude Not Funny]].

* In ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'', Louis dons an identical Darth Vader costume as one of his [[Jerk Jock]] rivals and proceeds to have sex with the jock's girlfriend. As she's post-coitally gushing about her "boyfriend's" performance, Louis unmasks himself... ''On top of her''. She expresses dismay at his deception, for about five seconds, before openly marveling that "a nerd" could be that good in bed, and spends the rest of the movie in heat for him. They end up married in subsequent sequels. Played for laughs, but [[Fridge Logic]] quickly turns it into [[Dude, Not Funny]].

* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''Saboteur'' tries to invoke [[Black Comedy Rape]], even though no rape actually takes place. The main character has been framed for murder, and is fleeing from the law. A woman has found out his identity, and tries to turn him in to the police, so he is forced to kidnap her. At one point, their car breaks down, and while he fiddles with the engine, another car is seen approaching them. He manages to fix the engine in time to drag her screaming into the car and drive off just as the other car stops to see what's going on. The other drivers are revealed to be an old married couple, and the wife (having witnessed a woman screaming for help and forced into a car) remarks, "They must be terribly in love." ''Somewhat'' of a [[Values Dissonance]] for modern audiences.

** Actually, a joke generally lost on modern audiences, because the woman in the car who makes the comment is Dorothy Parker, making a cameo appearance. She was famous for writing short stories, in many of which, people fail spectacularly when trying to demonstrate love, or by misperceiving some gesture by another person as indicating love.

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* Lara in ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'', though she ends up {{spoiler|changing her mind and shooting her rapist.}}

** In the original book the movie was based on, she isn't even raped in the first place. She shoots the guy because she's in desperate need for money and wants to blackmail him.

* One of the many interpretations of the pitch-black [[David Lynch]] film ''[[Blue Velvet]]'': most critics agree that, in his own depraved way, the sadistic gangster/rapist Frank is in love with Dorothy, but debate whether she feels the same way. Dennis Hopper hilariously, and disturbingly, lampshades the twisted dynamics of their relationship in a [[Cluster F Bomb]] answer to an interviewer asking why he took the villainous role:

* One of the many interpretations of the pitch-black [[David Lynch]] film ''[[Blue Velvet]]'': most critics agree that, in his own depraved way, the sadistic gangster/rapist Frank is in love with Dorothy, but debate whether she feels the same way. Dennis Hopper hilariously, and disturbingly, lampshades the twisted dynamics of their relationship in a [[Cluster F-Bomb]] answer to an interviewer asking why he took the villainous role:

{{quote| "Frank just happens to be one of the great romantic male leads of all time! ...I mean he fucking worships Dorothy and Dorothy is hot for him because when the kid Jeffrey gets physically intimate with Dorothy she suddenly wants him to slap her around just like Frank does. Frank and Dorothy-- that's a great love story of our time! ...Here's a guy who'll go to any lengths: he kidnaps her, cuts her fucking husband's ear off with pair of scissors, which isn't an easy thing to do, and ultimately he even shoots the cop he's in cahoots with. Now if that isn't true love, what the fuck is? And at the end of the movie, in those last images, there's the shot of Dorothy--she's sitting in some park with her little son in her arms. David's intention, 'cause he told me this, is to let the viewer know that it's not over, she's still thinking about Frank, still longing for him. Frank's dead but she'll always love him."}}

* In ''Beowulf & Grendel'', the witch Sarah Poley is raped by the troll. Apparently that's what trolls usually do to witches since she then tries to protect him and their child again the arrogant Geatish hero ([[Meet Cute|nothing unexpected]], by the way) who wants to kill him.

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* Kathleen E. Woodiwiss' acclaimed historical romance ''The Flame and the Flower'' is quite well-written but has an exceptionally disturbing rape-to-love conversion. The heroine stabs a man who is attempting to rape her and flees, believing she has killed him. The so-called "hero" has men wandering the streets looking for a prostitute to bring to him, and when they see her on the streets they grab her. She goes with them thinking they are police. The hero rapes her, dismissing her resistance as "mere coyness". She escapes and goes back to her abusive aunt, only to find out that she is pregnant. Her aunt forces her to wed her rapist... whom she eventually falls in love with, and bears the child, and they all live happily ever after. However, ''he never apologizes for the rape,'' and the novel leaves the reader with a distinct impression that because she was out on the street alone, she deserved it. Even for a novel set in the early 1800s, this seems excessively misogynistic and left a bad taste in many readers' mouths.

* In Margery Allingham's [[Genteel Interbellum Setting|1930s]] [[Albert Campion (Literature)|Albert Campion]] murder mystery ''The Fashion in Shrouds'', one character is depressed over losing her love to a rival. Her brother recommends "a nice rape" to make her feel better.

* In [[VC Andrews]]' ''Flowers in the Attic'', Chris commits [[Brother Sister Incest]] with Cathy against her will, but Cathy later says if she ''really'' didn't want it she would have pushed him off.

* In [[VC Andrews]]' ''Flowers in the Attic'', Chris commits [[Brother-Sister Incest]] with Cathy against her will, but Cathy later says if she ''really'' didn't want it she would have pushed him off.

* Reversal in the ''Mode'' series from [[Piers Anthony]]. The protagonist couple finally get married, but after having been raped in her past, the female lead finds herself psychologically unable to submit to sexual intercourse, even in a consensual relationship. She offers to let the male rape her to consummate their marriage. {{spoiler|He declines.}}

* Averted massively in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''Shards of Honor'': Sergeant Bothari, during a period of severe mental illness, is forced to participate in his commanding officer's rape and torture of a female POW. After she goes into a catatonic state he keeps her in his own quarters for several days, playing out a fantasy relationship with her; the experience leaves her pregnant and nearly destroyed by the mental trauma, and when they meet him again nineteen years later in ''The Warrior's Apprentice'' she promptly shoots him dead. Bothari, by this point much saner, seems to regard it as [[Karmic Death|cosmic justice]].

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** She actually did threaten to castrate Pete with her bare hands when she first met him again... until she found {{spoiler|he was also an Artificial Person, at which point she immediately empathized with him. Apparently their common origin and sex-slave training had Friday realizing that she couldn't really hate him without also in a way hating ''herself''... when her [[Character Development]] over most of the book is that she's slowly been learning ''not'' to do that.}}

** Pete explains very specifically that his rape of Friday was ''not'' a matter of "only following orders"; he raped her, he explains, "because I ''wanted'' to. Because you are so sexy you could corrupt a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylite Stylite]. Or cause Venus to switch to Lesbos." This is, if not [[Rape Is Love]], at least rape as compliment.

* [[Stationery Voyagers|Neone Delft]] and Carl Worniti's short-lived affair is a subversion of both this and [[Platonic Prostitution]]. She really didn't want to give herself to ''anyone'' before her wedding day, but settled for Carl's advances both because he paid and because [[Resigned to The Call|the alternative was just not gonna happen]]. When Pentacko decides to reward Carl and Neone's loyalty to each other with [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|pumping him with lead]], this [[~~Its~~ Personal|embitters]] Neone to the point of being slow to Marlack's advances. But, when she realizes that Marlack [[Replacement Love Interest|only wanted to be the same kind of gentleman to her that Carl was]] (and was about to be killed by the same band of thugs!,) she [[Must Make Amends|immediately leaps into danger to attempt a rescue]].

* [[Stationery Voyagers|Neone Delft]] and Carl Worniti's short-lived affair is a subversion of both this and [[Platonic Prostitution]]. She really didn't want to give herself to ''anyone'' before her wedding day, but settled for Carl's advances both because he paid and because [[Resigned to The Call|the alternative was just not gonna happen]]. When Pentacko decides to reward Carl and Neone's loyalty to each other with [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|pumping him with lead]], this [[It's Personal|embitters]] Neone to the point of being slow to Marlack's advances. But, when she realizes that Marlack [[Replacement Love Interest|only wanted to be the same kind of gentleman to her that Carl was]] (and was about to be killed by the same band of thugs!,) she [[Must Make Amends|immediately leaps into danger to attempt a rescue]].

** After Marsty [[Heel Face Turn|renounces Astrabolo]], and he is found severely wounded and betrayed, Verdegal refuses to let anyone keep him in jail for having raped her a long time ago. More of a roundabout; as the rape didn't lead to love. It was the fact that he was browbeaten into service to Astrabolo that led to [[Not So Different|Verdegal pitying him]], [[Red String of Fate|which lead to love]].

*** [[Face Palm|Rather depressing]] for Philidrio to see them together though, seeing that it was ''his'' former dream girl (with whom the sex was consensual, and the one who funded his "life"-saving mechanization) that was leaving him for a former rapist. But he realizes [[Resigned to The Call|it'd be impractical]] for her to stay his.

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* The third book of ''[[The Cross Time Engineer (Literature)|The Cross Time Engineer]]'' series, ''The Radiant Warrior'', has Piotr, who has been in love with Krystyana for most of his life; she pointedly does not return his feelings, and only seems to be interested in the hero of the series. He resolves this problem by becoming a knight, which in this series means that he has the absolute right to have sex with any unmarried lowborn woman, and promptly carries her off and rapes her, ignoring her pleas and protests, ''with a cheering crowd outside the bedroom door''. But not to worry; the sex was apparently awesome, and in the morning Krystyana is all smiles and ready to get married.

* Similar to the ''Eclipse'' example, the book ''Hush, Hush'' has the love interest, Patch, repeatedly corner Nora, put his hands all over her, and kiss her, while she outright tells him to back up and give her room and that she doesn't feel safe with him (this goes to the point where she considers ''pulling a fire alarm'' to escape from him). He also metaphorically rapes her by [[Mind Rape|planting fake images in her head]] and [[Grand Theft Me|temporarily taking possession of her body]], which she describes as being both involuntary and very frightening. In spite of all of this, Nora ends up deciding that Patch is the greatest guy ever and ends up [[Stockholm Syndrome|happily dating him]].

** It's also worth noting that Nora and Patch officially hook up after [[Does This Remind You of Anything|he ignores her protests, tricks her into staying in a single-bed motel room with him, throws her on the bed and against the wall, and kisses her.]]

** It's also worth noting that Nora and Patch officially hook up after [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|he ignores her protests, tricks her into staying in a single-bed motel room with him, throws her on the bed and against the wall, and kisses her.]]

* The narrator of Chris Lynch's ''Inexcusable'' fully believes in this trope, but he has a habit of unintentionally undermining his own arguments. This is ''entirely'' deliberate on Lynch's part.

* In Megan Barker's ''Black-Eyed Susan'', a [[The Alcoholic|horribly drunk]] {{spoiler|Roderick Brandon}} mistakes {{spoiler|the title character}} for the streetwalker with whom he had been...attempting to negotiate. He rapes and [[Child By Rape|impregnates]] her; furthermore, while pawing at her face, he [[Eye Scream|claws her left eye severely enough that she loses the use of it]]. Laterï¿½[[Alcohol Induced Idiocy|not remembering the incident clearly]]ï¿½he falls in love with her. {{spoiler|She, on the other hand, remembers every moment of it (and, more to the point, ''him'') all too clearly, and ''[[Subverted Trope|hates his guts]]'' for itï¿½at least, until he [[Heroic Sacrifice|gives his own life to save hers]] at the end of the book.}}

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== Music ==

* Songs about rape or stalking or general "Ha ha we'll subvert [[Intercourse With You]]!" themes from the point of view of the rapist, stalker etc. are so common that they are a common go to interpretation for some people. Hence [http://www.cracked.com/article_18431_8-romantic-songs-you-didnt-know-were-about-rape.html this cracked article].

* "Gimme The Night" by eurobeat alias Dave McCloud sounds like [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] at first, but listen to the lyrics closely and you get creepy lines like "[[Does This Remind You of Anything|Like a nice empty shell]] / Such a beautiful girl" and "[[Victim Falls For Rapist|You're my beautiful toy]]".

* "Gimme The Night" by eurobeat alias Dave McCloud sounds like [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] at first, but listen to the lyrics closely and you get creepy lines like "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Like a nice empty shell]] / Such a beautiful girl" and "[[Victim Falls For Rapist|You're my beautiful toy]]".

* Katy Perry's E.T. has [http://smartiepops.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/katyperrykanyeet/ received some flack] for its "Stockholm Syndrome" like lyrics such as "Wanna be a victim, Ready for abduction" not helped by Kanye West's additional lyrics of "Iï¿½mma disrobe you, Then Iï¿½mma probe you, See, I abducted you, So I tell you what to do."

* The Decemberists' song "We Both Go Down Together", a Romeo-and-Juliet-esque story of love and tragedy, reveals in the lines "I laid you down in the grass of a clearing/You wept, but your soul was willing" that their love initially begins when the narrator of the story rapes Miranda, and she likes it.

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** Rance, while he doesn't comprehend that rape is wrong, believes that regardless of the situation, both parties should be at least physically satisfied at the end of it. Hence why when he found out a character was raped in order to traumatize them, he was enraged beyond imagination.

* Subverted in ''Rapelay'', by ILLUSION, a game which is about stalking and raping women. The entire game is actually an affirmation of the this trope, where the player trains the victims into loving his attacks.

* [[Embric of Wulfhammers Castle]] has the Duchess of Elstwhere raped by Carmina, a dark elf sorceress, in an elaborate [[Nightmare Fuel]] ritual surrounded by skeletons and dark-elf attendants. Since it happens [[All Just a Dream|in a dream]], [[Double Standard Rape Female On Female|Carmina is a woman and the Duchess is a lesbian]], and [[~~Its~~ Not Rape If You Enjoyed It|Duchess describes the encounter in detail to titillate her maid]], Carmina is easily forgiven, and the two fall in love; they're the only couple that gets a truly "happily ever after" ending.

* [[Embric of Wulfhammers Castle]] has the Duchess of Elstwhere raped by Carmina, a dark elf sorceress, in an elaborate [[Nightmare Fuel]] ritual surrounded by skeletons and dark-elf attendants. Since it happens [[All Just a Dream|in a dream]], [[Double Standard Rape Female On Female|Carmina is a woman and the Duchess is a lesbian]], and [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It|Duchess describes the encounter in detail to titillate her maid]], Carmina is easily forgiven, and the two fall in love; they're the only couple that gets a truly "happily ever after" ending.

* In ''[[Alice Madness Returns]]'', {{spoiler|Angus Bumby was infatuated with Alice's sister Lizzie. Lizzie however hated Bumby since she could see that he was [[Obviously Evil]]. Believing that she was playing hard to get, he then sneaks into her room, rapes her and then burns down the Liddel household in order to cover his tracks.}}