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C. Coville, Cracked, 6 Romantic Movie Gestures That Can Get You Prison Time "Obviously if you're watching a scene with a woman tied to a bed while a man forces sex on her, the final act of that movie will involve said man getting shot in the face by Bruce Willis . If, on the other hand, it's a man being tied down and forced into sex by a pretty lady, well, you're watching a wacky romantic comedy."

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A Sub-Trope of Double Standard.

Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil, beyond kicking the dog or any of the other acts of villainy in media. But there seems to be one exception: when the victim is a man and the attacker is a woman. Men are stereotyped as constantly wanting sex and of being stronger in general than women. Therefore, the idea that the man could have either not consented to sex with a woman or been incapable of fighting off a female aggressor if he did refuse sex is simply not taken seriously. Another commonly-held notion that the idea of female-on-male rape challenges is the false idea that since men have erections, they enjoy the sex, and hence is not rape or not as traumatic as any other kind of rape.

The consequence of this line of thought is this trope. A man raped by an attractive woman is considered a lucky man, and a man being raped by an unattractive woman is comedy gold.

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For a trope that suffers a similar attitude, see Hot for Student. Some forms of Gender Rarity Value could be considered a sub-trope. Often involves the Bed Trick, Love Potion or other fantastical means of sex.

Compare The Unfair Sex, Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi, Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female, Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male, Black Comedy Rape, Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal, and All Women Are Lustful.

See also All Abusers Are Male, Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male and All Women Are Doms, All Men Are Subs.

Sadly, people thinking this way is Truth in Television. For instance, some countries don't penalize sexual acts done by females as "rape", and this even extends to Sexual Harassment, too.

This trope is not just females raping males, but females raping males and that being somehow more okay in-universe than males raping females, males raping males, and so forth.

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Examples

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This Chocolate flavored Axe (Lynx in the UK) ad is Played for Laughs, sure, and the chocolate guy seems to like it, but can you imagine an ad showing a woman getting literal bites taken out of her, possibly against her will, by strangers on the street ever being passed for broadcast? Thought not.

is Played for Laughs, sure, and the chocolate guy seems to like it, but can you imagine an ad showing a woman getting literal bites taken out of her, possibly against her will, by strangers on the street ever being passed for broadcast? Thought not. Muscle Milk is supposed to make one more attractive. Ads show men visibly upset talking about how they are being sexually harassed by women, The announcer then tells them that attractive men must submit to unwanted sexual advances.

In the seventies, Hai Karate cologne stopped just short of rape, with its ads featuring a man being mobbed by women (usually between four and six women) after he uses the cologne, to the point that his clothes are torn and he's generally dishevelled and has to physically fight them off. Again, consider whether an ad for a women's scent would ever be marketed that way.

In, of all things, a commercial for chocolate candies: tennis player Roger Federer is stopped in the airport by two attractive female transportation-security officials, who confiscate his candy and threaten him with a strip search. It's played for comedy, although one can't imagine a version starring (say) Maria Sharapova or Serena Williams and two male security people.

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Somewhat common in Greek Mythology where the prevailing feeling seemed to be "rape is ok when it is the strong on the weak." Perhaps the best know example of this was The Amazons which as a Gender Flipped version of a typical warrior race would regularly rape prisoners of both genders just like their male counterparts. This was a major part of Greco-Roman culture. Any kind of sex was fine, including rape, as long as it involved domination of a social subordinate (usually a slave or wife; or in some cases, such as Spartan society, a younger male protege). To submit, sexually, to someone weaker or socially inferior was considered highly shameful, and grounds for anything from exploitative humour to outright ostracism.

In Arthurian Legend, Sir Galahad was conceived when his father, Sir Lancelot, was drugged and raped twice. While the person who drugged him (Morgan Le Fay) is typically seen as a villain, both the rapes' mastermind (the Fisher King who wanted the perfect grandson) and the rapist herself (Princess Elaine) were not shown to be bad people.

When Asmodeus of Tobit stalks a woman and prevents her from consummating any marriages he is declared "The Worst Of Demons". Other Jewish mythology figures, the four demon queens Lilith, Naamah, Eisheth Zenunim and Agrat, want sex without care for consent but if they happen to rape an unwilling man, even if it takes more than one of them to subdue him, it is still his fault and any resulting abominations they may birth are the man's responsibility. Asmodeus may in fact be one of their sons. Thankfully the whole of this material is not canon to any modern religion.

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Aristophanes's The Assemblywomen (or Ecclesiazusae) has a couple old hags dragging a young man away from his young and presumably beautiful lover to force him to obey the new laws governing sex.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: The man, Bottom is is the victim of a supernatural practical joke, and has the head of a donkey. Titania, the fairy queen, is the victim of another practical joke, dosed with a love potion, and forced to fall desperately in love with the next thing she sees. That would be the aforementioned Bottom. As soon as love-mad Titania casts eyes on Bottom, she wants him. Bottom, (who's having a rough day) decides to head home, not realizing that she's a fairy queen, and fairy queens aren't used to hearing the word "No". The scene of her capturing Bottom is never played as anything but hilarity, not say, kidnapping and sex slavery. Titania: Out of this wood do not desire to go:

Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.

I am a spirit of no common rate;

The summer still doth tend upon my state.

In Moulin Rouge!, scenes where women push sex on men who are not interested are seen as awkward at worst, but scenes where men attempt to push sex on women are seen as violent and horrifying.

In an example blending slightly with Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal, Prior of Angels in America seems strangely blasé, especially given he's in love with someone and gay, about how an angel fucked him with her eight vaginas when recounting the tale to his friend Belize. But, after the hell of a time he had in the entire first act leading up to the angel's arrival, maybe he was just too jaded to care by then.

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Tsukihime: Shiki's dreams of Arcueid. Actually a subversion as not only is it seen as a dumb (and humiliating/very inappropriate) move on Arcueid's part, he calls her on it and explains very pointedly that that is not the way to thank someone. Also played with in that Arcueid didn't intend for the dream to take the form of a sexual assault and just wanted him to have a pleasant sex dream with whoever he subconsciously wanted...not realizing that not only are Len's dreams rather too realistic (meaning Shiki reacted in a completely normal fashion to X girl showing up in his room), but she's also not one to give up just because a dream is turning out badly.

Karura in Utawarerumono. First, she gets Hakuoro to agree to help her country out. That's nice. But then as 'paying' him, she drugs him into having sex with her, and later when confronting Suwonkas she starts groping and kissing him in an attempt to piss Suwonkas off. And also because she just wanted to. Now imagine if these roles had been reversed.

Sharin no Kuni: Ririko's playing with Kenichi is treated as a mere quirk of hers instead of as the borderline pedophilliac action it is. It's borderline not because he isn't a little kid, but because her own age is rather hard to determine. But this is treated as one of her many quirks and she's even one of his romance options . The portrayal is quite different from the abuse that Natsumi went through.

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