Thank you so much for answering my poll and giving me this additional information. I don't have a problem with rape/non-con so I don't really understand what it is about it that makes people not want to read it. I mean, I would never just write some piece of crap that glorified it and was nothing but brutality, where someone is violated, the end. But characters have things happen to them that are problematic, unpleasant, upsetting, because without a conflict there can be no resolution and your plot is a bit thin with nothing but sunshine and roses, know what I mean? So if it was handled well but a character happened to, say, get beaten up and raped in a hate crime and there was this emotional struggle for recovery and there was depth to this situation -- as opposed to just gratuitous violence glorifying the actions -- would that be a fic you'd rule out? I know some people just like fics where someone gets hurt and I've never understood the whole idea of getting off on someone being harmed. It doesn't compute to me. It wouldn't be that sort of situation if I wrote it, absolutely. But I have a tendency to hurt my characters and even kill them, honestly. I'm also a sucker for a happy ending, though, and I wouldn't want to leave people hanging. I guess maybe I'm a more conscientious writer than some and I just wish people would trust me and read it anyway. =/ I'm not upset at those who won't though.
" I would never just write some piece of crap that glorified it and was nothing but brutality, where someone is violated, the end."
that's my only problem with some rapefics, where it's just there to be hot or arousing, where it glorifies rape. Bad things happen in life, so I totally agree with you, when it's in the plot it's part of the story.
Yeah, I read something by someone whose whole fic was about "let's beat Orlando to a bloody pulp, torture him sexually, the end." I was stunned. I just hadn't even considered someone would write that kind of crap! And what pissed me off all the more was that it was summed up as a BDSM fic. HELLO? Kink is NOT the same as torture. Both partners in a BDSM relationship are getting something out of it. It was VERY clear Orlando's character was there against his will and getting nothing out of it but misery, and the person causing it was gloating over that fact. I want to kick people like this in the teeth, because they make kink even LESS acceptable, since uninformed people read this and think they know what S/M is or how it's supposed to be, and they couldn't be further from the truth. I don't like having people form inaccurate judgments about me and what I must like based on dickweeds who write crap like that. ::grumbles::
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that's my only problem with some rapefics, where it's just there to be hot or arousing, where it glorifies rape. Bad things happen in life, so I totally agree with you, when it's in the plot it's part of the story.
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