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Ultra Taboos

When I was in The Naval academy, we got asked WHY people watch horror flicks?  Being as MOST people would not NORMALLY want to feel their life is in mortal danger or see others hurt.  What we came up with is the REASON why people read, is that we ALL like to have feelings….Fear being one of those feelings, though you can imply lust, love, and a host of others.

This will be the last part of my series (but NOT the last post yet).  I want to talk about some things I call “Ultra Taboos”.  These are behaviors that are SO socially unacceptable that I feel people become afraid to write about them for fear of a stigma or social ostracizing.  The fun thing about having the COURAGE to write about these things is that it will often take your story from good to GREAT (PROVIDED the taboo fits in the story and is not just “thrown in there” to say you did it.  And these social taboos CHANGE.

Did you know Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, and many others were considered vulgar? In fact many of DaVinci’s sculptures, including the famous “David” had their cock chiseled off, and it was not so long ago you could not even SAY “Gay” (as in homosexual).

That said, the first “Ultra Taboo” I’d like to discuss is RAPE.  Rape is NOT a bad word. But you have to UNDERSTAND rape to use it properly (and using rape does not MEAN you SUPPORT rape…we do not support murder, but lots of people write murder mysteries.)

What rape IS:

1. Control, NOT passion (sex)

2. An intense assault

3. More Psychological than physical

4. Generally has a different effect on males than on females

What rape is NOT

1. Beating the crap out of someone (that’s assault)

2. Gender specific

3. Forced pleasure

4. Forced seduction

Now of course we WRITE about such things because we like the fantasy, the ability to have pleasure without limit, request or even permission. In fact I am told by Psychologists that men and women BOTH generally have rape fantasies, that does NOT mean either side wants to be HURT, and again in general males have a DIFFERENT fantasy then women.

For males, Rape Fantasy takes 1 or 2 forms (remember in general)

1. Forcing pleasure on a woman and being SO good, she cannot help but climax over and over.  This is the classic “Gone with the Wind” fantasy where Rhett Butler grabs a struggling Scarlet and, as he kisses her, she melts in his arms.  The reality…“No means no”.

2. The male psychological destroys the female, the male gets prestige... (Stud, Stallion, Macho)

For females, it is different (I am TOLD from them).  There is such a social stigma about having sex out of wedlock (slut, whore, Bitch) that I am told they have fantasies of someone taking them against their will.  They can actually ENJOY sex and then honestly say, “I was forced. I had no choice.”  Again, this does not mean she is fantasizing about being HURT.

The cold hard facts about rape (and you can USE this in your stories) is that the PHYSICAL reaction cannot be helped…IF you stimulate a cock or a pussy correctly, the victim WILL have an orgasm.  This seems to REALLY bother women.  They ask themselves WHY that happened; does that mean they liked it?  They feel they have betrayed their chosen partner…

So the bottom line here is, if you USE rape in a story, It’s pretty unlikely that the woman will get up and say “Ok, back to business”. She is going to be damaged.