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| - Double Standard Rape (Female on Female) is in large part based on the idea that lesbian sex is not "real" sex. Men, penises, and penile penetration are central to sexual relations; without a penis involved, there can be no sex, and without sex, there can be no rape. Therefore, anything a woman does to another woman is "not a big deal". As the Double Standard Rape (Female on Male) page says, please Don't Try This At Home. No Real Life Examples, Please until further notice. A relative of Double Standard Rape (Female on Male) and Double Standard Rape (Male on Male). See also Skinship Grope.
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| - Double Standard Rape (Female on Female) is in large part based on the idea that lesbian sex is not "real" sex. Men, penises, and penile penetration are central to sexual relations; without a penis involved, there can be no sex, and without sex, there can be no rape. Therefore, anything a woman does to another woman is "not a big deal". It should be noted that, at least in the United States, this viewpoint was legally supported until the 1970s. The definition of "rape", historically, was defined as the act of forcing sexual intercourse on a woman by a man. Currently, all states define rape without referencing the sex of the victim or the perpetrator, acknowledging that women and men can both rape and be raped, but many people still believe that the presence or absence of the penis determines whether any given sex act is actually sex or not. In other locations, the presence of the penis is still required for an act to be legally considered "rape" rather than "unwanted sexual touching" or other such descriptions. This trope is invoked where women raping other women is seen as harmless or even sexy, and therefore not worth fretting over. After all, Girl-On-Girl Is Hot, no matter what the victim may think of it. In some cases, authors who would demote male rapists to Complete Monster status within a story forgive female rapists, and/or consider their relationships to be loving. The emotional impact of the rape is largely dismissed or ignored completely, usually because it would be less appealing to the audience for the victim to be legitimately traumatized, and ideas of consent and personal violation aren't often brought up at all. The trope (and audiences' reaction) is used similarly in Boys Love works for male-on-male rape, but where BL often uses it for drama, female-on-female rape in most media would like the rape not to last any longer than the scene it happens in. Don't expect victims to think about it too hard after the fact. Obviously this trope describes a Double Standard, and an extremely insulting one, in that it supports not one, not two, but four Unfortunate Implications: Women are so weak and ineffectual they just can't harm anyone, not even other women, even less by sex; lesbian sex is cute and harmless but most of all unreal, especially if it's non-penetrative; dismissing such a trope as Squick would immediately bear the mark of Selective Squick; and only men are rapists. As the Double Standard Rape (Female on Male) page says, please Don't Try This At Home. No Real Life Examples, Please until further notice. A relative of Double Standard Rape (Female on Male) and Double Standard Rape (Male on Male). See also Skinship Grope. Examples of Double Standard Rape (Female on Female) include:
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