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Rape, in the context of this article, is defined by the general term of an assault involving the non-consensual use of the sexual organs of another person's body.
If rape of males by females is more rare than the opposite, than non statutory female on male rape is an area that hardly ever gets explored.
Types of non statutory female on male rape
Simulating male on male rape
Initiating the penetration
In this less common scenerio, the female gender of the rapist does not play a physical role, as she simulates the rape of males by males by initiating non phallic anal sex pegging via such methods as a strap-on dildo and a butt plug).
Therefore, in this scenerio, the female gender of the rapist is only relevant for the psychological and legal repercussions of the rape.
A male assistance
Alternatively (or in addition), a female rapist of a male may use a male counterpart to make the rape possible in the first place (or even join in) and thus the female gender of the rapist only plays a partial physical role and only partially affects the psychological and legal repercussions of the rape.
Direct female on male rape
Receiving the penetration
This is the more common scenerio, which contains many unique features.
Involuntary erect penis
Whether the female rapist, disregarding the lack of consent, receives a vaginal, oral, mammary or anal intercouse from the male victim or performs a handjob on him, it requires her to arouse the male's penis into a fully erect state, which, contrary to popular belief, can be an involuntary biological action and therefore does not constitute a sign of consent by itself[1] (as will be shown below, a female can even start raping a male in his sleep).
Sperm theft
Direct female on male rape contains the ability to steal sperm, which, if used for insemination, may force the rape victim in many countries to pay child support (it should be pointed out that according to Court TV's Crime Library, women commit about 10% of all sexual offenses, but most of these are statutory offences).
In the news
Joyce McKinney
In 1978, a former US beauty queen, Joyce McKinney, hired a private detective who tracked down her former Mormon boyfriend in England, where he had moved to avoid his obssessed former girlfriend. She then took a flight from the US to England in order to kidnap him. After managing to do so, she tied him up to a hotel bed and proceeded to rape him. Later on, after he complained to the police and they arrested her, she was allowed to be released on bail and fled back to the US to escape trial. The media and public reacted to this jokingly, mainly on the Mormon's expense, while the legal system simply let an alleged kidnapper and rapist easily go free.[2]
Jail time for an oral sleep rape
In 2004 in Bergen, Norway, a 31 years old man went to sleep on a sofa in an apartment after a party. He later woke to find the apartment's owner's 23 years old girlfriend had started performing oral sex on him in his sleep. He left the apartment in anger and pressed charges. Since the rape law in Norway is sexually neutral, the woman was put to trial for rape. In 2005, the woman lost her appeal and was sentenced to nine months in jail.[3]
In the entertainment media
It is interesting to note then that it is not a rarity in the entertainment media. It is usually presented as a comic motif. In dramatic movies, usually only minor non consensual female on male sexual harassments are presented - for example the way the male protagonist's female boss in the TV series The Loop constantly touches his body and throws sexual suggestions at him.
The absense of the word or concept of rape
When describing relevant scenes, the word or concept of rape is rarely mentioned.
In the transcript
The word rape is practically never uttered by any character or by the narrator. Neither is there any mention of the fact that a non-consensual act has occured.
However, if the same media item also contains opposite scenes (in which a female is the victim - even in a comedy scene) then it may be used in them.
In reviews
Reviews - official and unofficial alike - of those media items and even specific scenes hardly ever mention the word "rape" or even that a non-consensual act has occured in them.
The gender reversal factor
A relevant scene can reach such heights that if the same scene had went through a gender reversal without changing a single element otherwise, the genre of the movie could have been replaced from comedy or drama to horror and to have earned an adult oriented certification.
List of relevant scenes
This entry would present a list of (mainstream) media items (e.g. movies and books) in which such scenes occure and analyze them.
In the genre of comedy
Hamburger... The Motion Picture
In this movie (from 1986) a college student called Russell is just too irresistible to women. Two different women try to rape him, one using her authorative status and one via more direct means.
At first, after getting caught making out with a fellow female student in the women's showers, Russell is summoned to the Undergraduate Counseling's office. After the counselor reads his file and learns he has already been kicked out from three colleges for always getting caught having sex, being naked, etc., Russell tells her it's not his fault women just want sex with him (he hasn't seen a movie in a long time because each time he asks a woman out for a movie, she ends up making them not leave the house).
The counselor explains to him he has to have sexual self control. With that said, she simply stands up and walks over to him while saying these are liberal times and she's not blind and just wants what women of all ages want. She proceeds to sit on the sitted Russell and takes off her top. She only manages to kiss him when they're caught by the dean and Russell is expelled immediately.
To illustrate the point, we see later how his father chokes him out because he doesn't believe him that "she started it!".
The same scene under under a gender reversal would be a male counselor standing up unexpectedly in a middle of a session with a female student, then - while telling her he's not blind - approaching and sitting on her and trying to have sex with her.
Russell then goes to Burger University, which is his last chance to graduate, but in order to do so he must concentrate on studying instead of sex. One night, when he tries to study hard for the next day's finals, Conchita (a fellow student whom he turned down a few days earlier, when she jumped him and tried to have sex with him right in the middle of a party), bursts in topless, points a submachine gun at him and tells him Conchita never takes no for an answer. She then drops the gun in order to get her hands on him, but instead just tells him she'd scream rape if he doesn't do it with her.
In the next scene, Conchita lies on top of Russell in his bed, but they still have their bottoms on. At that point Russell finds a way out - he convinces her he's gay. She buys it and leaves after spitting on him. During the rest of the movie they just return to being ordinary classmates as if nothing had occured between them. Moreover than that, later on Russell stops her from getting naked in front of a bad biker who looks for a woman and thus saving her from danger (her initial reaction to the biker's suggestion was that she she finally found a "real man").
The same situation under a gender reversal would be a male student bursting in a female student's room and trying to rape her under a gun threat, after she turned him down a few days earlier when he jumped her and tried to phsyically rape her right in the middle of a party.
Porterhouse Blue
In this satirical book (from 1974), a bedder enters a college student's room in the middle of the night and wakes him up. Although the student secretly fantasized about her throughout the plot, he never meant for anything to actually happen and he didn't even know she picked up on his lust for her - it was just a private fantasy. At first he thinks it's morning time and she came to clean his room as usual. But when the bedder without saying much just starts undressing, he realizes his secret fantasy is becoming real and panics. He convinced himself it would lead up to his expulsion, although it was probably just an escuse for a pyschological fear of fulfilling his fantasy. But regardless of what his reasons were, he expresses his objection out loud. However, the bedder simply finishes undressing and while just silently ignoring his protests, enters his bed and lies on top of him.[5]
Although the word rape is mentioned only when she was the victim (in the student's thoughts throughout the plot[6]), consider these key points:
- "'Shush,' said Mrs Biggs with a terrible smile. 'It's only half- past three'"..."'Don't make any noise,' she continued, with the same extraordinary smile. What the hell is going on?' asked Zipser."[6] (as he finds out it's the middle of the night).
- "For God’s sake,” he said, “you mustn’t do that."[6] (as without words she simply starts undressing).
The book (as opposed to the TV mini-series) puts a big emphasis on the irony that the student, who was all along worried that his lust would cause him to rape the bedder, was the one who eventually ended up getting raped by her.
The TV mini-series (from 1987) softened this up by eliminating the suggestion that he realized causing a scene could end up with him being falsley accused as being the rapist himself ("He tried to think what to do." He couldn’t shout or scream for help. Nobody would believe he hadn’t invited her to...Oh God. Zipser began to weep."[6] (as she keeps undresses and simply ignores his protests) and so just helplessly chose to passively submit to her will ("Zipser had got back into bed and had switched off the light. 'Wants to spare me,' Mrs Biggs thought tenderly and climbed into bed." "Zipser shrank from her but Mrs Biggs had no sense of his reluctance. Grasping him in her arms she pressed him to her vast breasts. In the darkness Zipser whimpered."[6]
What's for sure, both the book and the TV mini-series leave no loop holes as to the forceful penetration that occured next. In the TV mini-series - after she enters his bed against his protests and lies on top of him, he quietly gasps her formal name ("Mrs. Biggs...") two times while she instructs him "Now Mr. Zipser, not too quick, not too quick...", and in the book - "Mrs Biggs's hand slid down his pyjamas. Zipser squeaked frantically and Mrs Biggs's mouth found his." "To Zipser it seemed that he was in the grip of a great white whale. He fought desperately for air, surfaced for a moment and was engulfed again."[6]
We never really find out how this would have turned out because just moments later his room explodes from a previous incident. Indirectly, it was her fault because his chimney was blocked but she invited herself in and lit the gas in his fireplace while he was too busy panicking by her to warn her about the chimney.
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While obviously this was supposed to humor us, if it had been the other way around, it would have looked rather differently. The same scene under a gender reversal would be the following: a male - even one the female secretly fantasized about - entering without permission to the female student's apartment in the middle of the night and waking her up. Not even bothering to explain his actions, he silently undresses, then enters the female's bed against her protests, lies on top of her, reaches up for her private genitals and penetrates her.
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
In this movie from 1999, a young guy in Ireland, Eamonn, finds out he gets any woman he sleeps with pregnant - no matter how many condoms were used. Eventually he starts sleeping for money with married mothers whose husbands aren't fertile (and being Catholic artificial insemination is a taboo), but not until he wakes up in the middle of the night and finds himself to his horror tied up to his bed while one such mother, Maeve, has started raping him in his sleep. In this movie, she not only rapes him while denying his consent via actual physical measures, but also in an attempt to get a baby from his sperm.[8]
The same scene[9] under a gender reversal would be the following: a male breaks into a stranger female's apartment in the middle of the night, and she later wakes up to find herself tied up and in the middle of an intercourse.
In the genre of drama
Disclosure
In this film and in the novel it was based on (both from 1994), Demi Moore's character, who is the new boss of Michael Douglas' character, summons him to her office, then suddenly throws herself at him against his protests and eventually performs oral sex on him. Finally he decides to physically push her aside and leave the office, which causes her to throw fists at him and threaten to ruin him. He decides to make a precedent by suing her for her actions (only for sexual harassment and not rape though), but soon learns none of his peers believe him a woman could be a sexual predator. In fact, they believe it must have been the other way around and it was him that raped her. In the end his company settles with him out of court, but only because the rape was recoreded by accident in the voicemail of Demi Moore's character, and the company was afraid it would ruin them. [10] [11]
Thursday
In this movie from 1998, Casey is a married man who wants to escape his drug dealing past. Alas, his old partner Nick shows up at his house and makes him hold onto some heroin for him. Once Nick leaves, Casey just dumps it down the drain. Throughout the day more unwelcome visitors show up at his house to try and take the (already dumped) heroin from him and also money that they believe Nick left him along with the heroin.
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One visitor is Nick's ex-lover Dallas. Angry that he can't help her, she decides to kill him. But not before she ties him up to a chair, gets naked and proceeds to mount and rape him. She tells him she plans to go on until she makes him get an orgasm. Delivering on her word, she reaches multiple orgasms, but gets no results from him. Eventually, another guy who wants the heroin breaks in and shoots her while she reaches yet another orgasm.
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Envy aka The New Girlfriend
In this independent Ausralian movie from 1999 (known as The New Girlfriend in the US), a mother, Kate, happens to notice a young woman, Rachel, undressing what appears to be the mother's stolen dress at her country club. When Rachel goes to the swimming pool, Kate steals back her dress from the dressing room.
Later on, as a payback, Rachel tracks down and befriends Kate's teenager son, Matt. They walk over to his house, when all of a sudden Rachel's boyfriend Nick joines them and ties Matt up to his mother Kate's bed. He then takes off his shirt and sexually harrasses Matt before hefore Rachel takes over.
Rachel sits on Matt and runs her mouth up and down his body. While still sitting on him, she takes off her top and puts on his mother Kate's stolen dress instead, and proceeds to give him a handjob. All the while the kid begs them to stop, but eventually he ejaculates and Rachel takes off the dress and uses it to clean it up.
She then signals Nick, who lifts up the topless Rachel and carries her to another room. Once they finish their business, they leave the house. When a furious Kate learns what they did to her now traumatic son, she explains to her husband that a rape doesn’t have to include an actual penetration. The rest of the movie plays out her revenge when she takes the law into her own hands.
However, since it is a male assailant that makes the rape possible in the first place, this movie has the female rapist partially simulating male on male rape). It is also unique in that the rape victim is a minor, and so a statutory rape would still have been applied even if he had consented to it.
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The episode "Ridicule" in Law & Order: SVU
In the episode "Ridicule" (from 2001) of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the detectives find out that 3 female lawyers, who managed to handcuff a male stripper to a bed during a bachelorette party, had proceeded to gang rape him.
Being a police procedural/legal thriller show, the plot does not feature the rape act itself, but revovles around its aftermath and how it affects the female rapists.
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The episode "Satisfaction" in Rescue Me
In the episode "Satisfaction" (from 2006) of Rescue Me, Shelia is mad that her boyfriend Tommmy had sex with another woman. To avenge, she prepares dinner for him in his apartment and commits the following actions:
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Shiela puts Viagra and date-rape drugs in Tommy's drink. Tommy passes out from the drugs during dinner. Shiela drags the unconscious Tommy over to the couch, removes his pants and her top and skirt, and mounts and rapes him. Shiela gasps in pleasure as she inserts Tommy. She rocks back and forth and places his hands on her rear, then removes her bra and places his hands on her breasts. She sobs as she moves up and down on him and has an orgasm. Tommy remains unconscious throughout.
After finishing up, she leaves his apartment but not before trashing it all up so when he wakes up, he (a former alcoholic) would think he fell off the wagon and drunk himself to sleep.
It should be noted that in a previous episode ("Sparks"), Tommy engaged in violent sex with his wife to such a degree that some viewers felt he raped her (out of anger for their coming up divorce), so as a plot device the goal may have been to return the karma. This time, it could be argued the usual situation was reversed, as it was left for the viewers to decide if Tommy raped his wife (she had full consciousness and never explicitly denied consent), but it was dictated to them that Shiela raped Tommy without consent.
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The Book of Revelation (movie and novel)
The movie The Book of Revelation (from 2006) and the novel of the same name (from 2000) were perhaps the most direct attempt so far to showcase complete and full scale scenes (via flashbacks) of a female rapist receiving a penetration from her male victim as well as a gang rape done to a male by females (although admittedly some of it involved initiating a penetration in a male on male rape fashion).
In the plot, a male dancer is drugged in an alley by 3 hooded and masked women and is then kidnapped by them. When he wakes up, he finds himself chained up to a warehouse's floor and is subjected to about 2 weeks of rapes and other tortures by the three hooded and masked women. When they release him, the police laugh at him when he tries to tell them what happened. He shuts down from confiding in others and devotes his life to a desperate need to sleep with as many women as he can, hoping some of them would be his kidnappers whose bodies he memorized by heart.
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While being considered of the drama/thriller genre, the same plot under a gender reversal could be considered pure horror: a woman is drugged and kidnapped from an alley by 3 hooded and masked men, wakes up to find herself chained to a warehouse's floor and is then being raped and tortured for about 2 weeks.
References
- ^ "Male Rape - Victims' Response". The National Center for Victims of Crime. 1997. Retrieved 2007-2-27.
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(help) - ^ Joyce McKinney and the Manacled Mormon
- ^ Female rapist sentenced: 24-year-old woman found guilty of forcing oral sex on a sleeping man
- ^ Hamburger... The Motion Picture (1986) at IMDb
- ^ The book Porterhouse Blue (1974)
- ^ a b c d e f Searchable quotes from the book Porterhouse Blue (1974)
- ^ A comparison between the The TV mini-series Porterhouse Blue (1987) and the original book (1974)
- ^ The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (1999) at IMDb
- ^ RTE.ie Entertainment's Cristín Leach reviews the movie - calling the direct female on male rape "an incident that would be disturbing if it wasn't so bizarre"
- ^ The movie Disclosure (1994)
- ^ The novel Disclosure (1994)
- ^ The movie Thursday (1998)
- ^ Envy (1999) aka The New Girlfriend (USA) at IMDb
- ^ A review of the episode "Ridicule" (2001) in season 3 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- ^ A review of the episode "Satisfaction" (2006) and "Sparks" (2006) in season 3 of Rescue Me (TV series)
- ^ The movie The Book of Revelation (2006)
- ^ The novel The Book of Revelation (2000)