Ryona

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The word {{nihongo|ryona|リョナ|ryona|a portmanteau of ryōki ("seeking the bizarre") and onanī ("masturbation")}} is a type of sexual fetish in hentai wherein a protagonist is subject to sexual, physical, or psychological abuse from an offender. The term is mostly used in connection to Japanese culture, although the themes of misogyny, misandry, sadomasochism, schadenfreude, compassion, exoticism, and extreme erotica is seen in many other cultures.

The term ryona almost exclusively refers to the action of a distressed woman being abused and dominated by men at an extreme level as its narrative centerpiece. Most of the abuses portrayed are similar to human rights violations and crimes against women with grave punishments. In a case where the target is male, it is more commonly called {{nihongo|gyaku-ryona|逆リョナ|gyaku-ryona|"reverse ryona"}}, and generally implies content with a female assailant and a male victim. The genre focusses exclusively on fictional characters in these situations. In some cases, the perpetrator could be a monster or other non-human being.

Because the fetish is very broad in scope, it often contrasted with or incorporates other, more common, fetishes such as humiliation, sexual sadism, and rape pornography, in that ryona is a complex and nuanced voyeuristic fantasy fetish, a romanticized subgenre aimed at a female target demographic and are almost always of non-explicit sexual nature. Unlike the genre of guro (グロ) or Ero guro (エログロ), ryona never progresses to the point of death or lasting physical harm.