Rape fantasy#Roleplay

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A rape fantasy (sometimes referred to as rapeplay) or a ravishment is a sexual fantasy involving imagining or pretending being coerced or forcefully coercing another into sexual activity. In sexual roleplay, it involves acting out roles of coercive sex. Rape pornography is literature, images or video associated with rape (and sometimes Stockholm syndrome) as a means of sex.

Fantasy

Studies have found rape fantasy is a common sexual fantasy among both men and women.{{Cite journal

|title=Women's Erotic Rape Fantasies: An Evaluation of Theory and Research

|last1=Critelli |first1=Joseph W.

|last2=Bivona |first2=Jenny M.

|jstor=20620339

|date=2008 |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=57–70

|doi=10.1080/00224490701808191

|journal=The Journal of Sex Research

|pmid=18321031 |s2cid=28276526 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224490701808191

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|title=The nature of women's rape fantasies: an analysis of prevalence, frequency, and contents

|last1=Bivona |first1=Jenny

|last2=Critelli |first2=Critelli

|date=February 10, 2009

|pages=33–45

|journal=The Journal of Sex Research

|volume=46 |issue=1 |pmid=19085605

|doi=10.1080/00224490802624406

|s2cid=44540712 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224490802624406

|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite web

|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-myths-sex/202003/why-are-rape-fantasies-so-common

|last1=Lehmiller |first1=Justin J.

|title=Why Are "Rape Fantasies" So Common?

|website=Psychology Today

|date=March 11, 2020

|series=The Myths of Sex}} The fantasy may involve the fantasist as either the one being forced into sex or being the perpetrator.

Another study found that over half of their female respondents have had a fantasy of forced sex in their life.{{cite book

|first=R.F. |last=Baumeister

|title=Social Psychology and Human Sexuality: Essential Readings

|publisher=Psychology Press

|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

|date=2001

|isbn=1-84169-018-X

|page=125}}

The most frequently cited hypothesis for why women fantasize of being forced and coerced into some sexual activity is that the fantasy avoids societally induced guilt—the woman does not have to admit responsibility for her sexual desires and behavior. A 1978 study by Moreault and Follingstad{{cite journal

|url=http://uknowledge.uky.edu/crvaw_facpub/53/

|title=Sexual Fantasies of Females as a Function of Sex Guilt and Experimenta

|first1=Denise |last1=Moreault

|first2=Diane R. |last2=Follingstad

|journal=Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

|publisher=American Psychological Association

|location=Washington DC

|date=December 1978

|doi=10.1037/0022-006X.46.6.1385

|volume=46 |issue=6 |pages=1385–1393

|pmid=730888

|access-date=June 16, 2014|url-access=subscription

}} was consistent with this hypothesis and found that women with high levels of sex guilt were more likely to report fantasy themed around being overpowered, dominated, and helpless. In contrast, Pelletier and Herold used a different measure of guilt and found no correlation. Other research suggests that women who report forced sex fantasies have a more positive attitude towards sexuality, contradicting the guilt hypothesis.{{sfn|Strassberg|Locker|1998|p=405}} A newer study from 1998 by Strassberg and Locker found that women who fantasized about force were generally less guilty and more erotophilic, and as a result had more frequent and varied fantasies. However, it said that force fantasies are not the most common or the most frequent.{{sfn|Strassberg|Locker|1998|p=416}}

A male sexual fantasy of raping a woman may bring sexual arousal either from imagining a scene in which first a woman objects but then comes to like and eventually participate in the intercourse, or else one in which the woman does not like it and arousal is associated with the idea of hurting the woman.{{cite book |title=Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies |last=Bader |first=Michael J. |year=2003 |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |location= London, England|isbn=0-312-30242-8 |page=126}}

= Prevalence among genders =

Numerous studies have found that fantasies about being forced to have sex are commonly found across all genders.{{cite web

|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-myths-sex/202003/why-are-rape-fantasies-so-common

|title=Why Are "Rape Fantasies" So Common?

|first=Justin J. |last=Lehmiller

|date=11 March 2020

|publisher=Psychology Today}} 45.8% of men in a 1980 study reported fantasizing during heterosexual intercourse about "a scene where [they had] the impression of being raped by a woman" (3.2% often and 42.6% sometimes), 44.7% of scenes where a seduced woman "pretends resisting" and 33% of raping a woman.{{cite journal

|first1=Claude |last1=Crépault

|first2=Marcel |last2=Couture

|title=Men's erotic fantasies

|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |publisher=Springer Science + Business Media

|location=Berlin, Germany

|volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=565–81

|date=December 1980

|pmid=7458662

|doi=10.1007/BF01542159 |s2cid=9021936

}}

A 1998 study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior which surveyed 137 female undergraduate students aged 18 to 40 found that 40% had ever had a fantasy where they were "overpowered or forced to surrender". This was lower than the population who had a fantasy where they imagined "having sex in a public or semipublic place" (57%) but higher than the number who had fantasies where they imagined themselves "as a striptease dancer‚ harem girl‚ or other performers"(35%). The population that reported these fantasies and were "'very likely' to act out that fantasy" was 6%. The average frequency at which the women who said they had a rape fantasy in the past experienced a rape fantasy was three times a month.{{cite journal

|title=Force in Women's Sexual Fantasies

|last1=Strassberg |first1=Donald S.

|last2=Locker |first2=Lisa K.

|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |publisher=Springer Science + Business Media

|location=Berlin, Germany

|issn=1573-2800

|volume=27

|issue=4

|date=August 1998

|pages=403–414

|doi=10.1023/A:1018740210472

|pmid=9681121|s2cid=32056579 }} In contrast a study published in The Journal of Sex Research from 2009 using a survey of 355" undergraduates, 81% of whom were between the ages of 18 and 21 indicated that "62% of women have had a rape fantasy". It found that over the entire population sampled 32% had not had a rape fantasy, 49% had a rape fantasy once a month or less, and 14% had rape fantasies once a week or more.{{Cite journal |last1=Bivona |first1=Jenny |last2=Critelli |first2=Joseph |date=2009-02-03 |title=The Nature of Women's Rape Fantasies: An Analysis of Prevalence, Frequency, and Contents |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224490802624406 |journal=Journal of Sex Research |language=en |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=33–45 |doi=10.1080/00224490802624406 |pmid=19085605 |s2cid=44540712 |issn=0022-4499|url-access=subscription }}

In a more recent study among more than 4,000 Americans, 61% of female respondents had fantasized about being forced to have sex; meanwhile, the numbers were 54% among men.

Roleplay

One form of sexual roleplaying is the rape fantasy, also called ravishment or forced sex roleplay.{{cite journal

|first1=Steven R. |last1=Gold

|first2=Bill L. |last2=Balzano

|first3=Robin |last3=Stamey

|title=Two Studies of Females' Sexual Force Fantasies

|journal=Journal of Sex Education and Therapy |publisher=Guildford Press

|location=New York City

|date=1991|volume=17|issue=1

|pages=15–26

|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01614576.1991.11074001

|url-access=subscription

|doi=10.1080/01614576.1991.11074001}} In BDSM circles (and occasionally outside these circles as well), some people choose to roleplay rape scenes—with communication, consent and safety being especially crucial elements. Though consent is a crucial component of any sexual roleplay,{{cite journal

|first1=Kathryn R. |last1=Klement

|first2=Brad J. |last2=Sagarin

|first3=Ellen M. |last3=Lee

|title=Participating in a Culture of Consent May Be Associated With Lower Rape Supportive Beliefs

|journal=The Journal of Sex Research

|publisher=Routledge

|location=Abingdon, England

|date=2017|volume=54|issue=1

|pages=130–134

|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301686229

|url-access=registration

|doi=10.1080/00224499.2016.1168353|pmid=27120005

|s2cid=25788140

}} the illusion of non-consent (i.e. rape) is important to maintaining this type of fantasy. A safe word is therefore a common safety measure, given that words that would normally halt sexual activity (e.g. "stop") are often disregarded in these scenes.{{Cite book

|last1=Bauer |first1=R.

|title=Queer BDSM Intimacies: Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries

|date=Oct 28, 2014

|isbn=9781137435026

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCNHBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT117

|url-access=limited

|pages=117–118|publisher=Springer

}} Continuing with the sexual roleplay after a safeword has been used constitutes rape, as the use of a safeword indicates the withdrawal of consent.

Rape fantasy#Roleplay

Fantasy

= Prevalence among genders =

Roleplay

See also

References

Further reading