By “We live in a rape culture, and don’t you ever forget it, not even
for one minute!” A lot of money has been spent on the rollout of this thought product
and the campaign keep going and keeps getting placed in larger markets.
It is quite impressive. The entire enterprise is classic Edward Bernays
“by the book” (the Bernays book being Propaganda, 1928, Horace
Liveright, N.Y.). This “We live in a rape culture” trope is so
widespread by now that we can confidently say that it is now the biggest
rape fantasy the world has ever known.
We might ask, just how exactly does this biggest of all rape fantasies fit in to the psychological typologies of rape fantasies as understood by social science researchers? According to Michael Castleman, M.A., in his 2010 Psychology Today article on the subject these imaginary scenarios when fantasized by women can be either erotic (“I’m being forced and I enjoy it.”) or aversive (“I’m being forced and I hate it.”) or, they can belong to a third – and intensely intriguing category – mixed. The incidence (among those women who engage in such a pastime) of these three types break down, according to Mr. Castleman, to 45% erotic, 9% aversive and 46% mixed. This makes things rather complicated, if we try to understand the popularity of women’s daydreams of the sort that can be characterized as “I’m being forced and I enjoy it and I hate it.”
We might ask, just how exactly does this biggest of all rape fantasies fit in to the psychological typologies of rape fantasies as understood by social science researchers? According to Michael Castleman, M.A., in his 2010 Psychology Today article on the subject these imaginary scenarios when fantasized by women can be either erotic (“I’m being forced and I enjoy it.”) or aversive (“I’m being forced and I hate it.”) or, they can belong to a third – and intensely intriguing category – mixed. The incidence (among those women who engage in such a pastime) of these three types break down, according to Mr. Castleman, to 45% erotic, 9% aversive and 46% mixed. This makes things rather complicated, if we try to understand the popularity of women’s daydreams of the sort that can be characterized as “I’m being forced and I enjoy it and I hate it.”