Indian culture ascribes shame to rape. Here many glorify it (rap music; celebration of prison rape).
Women’s Rape Fantasies: How Common? What Do They Mean?
Rape or near-rape fantasies are surprisingly common.
Psychology Today Published on January 14, 2010 by Michael Castleman, M.A. in All About Sex
Some women have fantasies of being forced into sex. At first glance, rape fantasies make no sense. Why fantasize about something that in real life would be traumatic, repugnant, and life-threatening?
But on closer examination, such fantasies are not unusual. Many men daydream about getting the girl by rescuing her from a dangerous situation—without the slightest wish to confront armed thugs, or be trapped in a fire on the 23rd floor.
Fantasies allow us to “experience” the outer limits of our imaginations safely, with no risk—and for some people, that includes fantasies of coerced sex. In fantasy everything is permitted and nothing is wrong.
But rape fantasies raise thorny issues. Many women who have them can’t shake the feeling that they are abnormal or perverted.
From 1973 through 2008, nine surveys of women’s rape fantasies have been published. They show that about four in 10 women admit having them (31 to 57 percent) with a median frequency of about once a month. Actual prevalence of rape fantasies is probably higher because women may not feel comfortable admitting them.
For the latest report (Bivona, J. and J. Critelli. “The Nature of Women’s Rape Fantasies: An Analysis of Prevalence, Frequency, and Contents,” Journal of Sex Research (2009) 46:33), psychologists at North Texas University asked 355 college women: How often have you fantasized being overpowered/forced/raped by a man/woman to have oral/vaginal/anal sex against your will?
Sixty-two percent said they’d had at least one such fantasy. But responses varied depending on the terminology used. When asked about being “overpowered by a man,” 52 percent said they’d had that fantasy, the situation most typically depicted in women’s romance fiction. But when the term was “rape,” only 32 percent said they’d had the fantasy. These findings are in the same ballpark as previous reports.
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