History Main / DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale

* In ''Film/AbsolutePower1996'' by David Baldacci, the President is having an affair with the wife of a wealthy supporter. Unfortunately, he is abusive, and his lover attacks him with a letter opener, causing the Secret Service to shoot her dead. His chief of staff goes into full spin mode, and has them leave her with the President, who's passed out on the bed from the shock. She then ''has sex with him while he's unconscious''. Why? Because she has a thing for him, and feels sorry the unfortunate fact that the Secret Service had to kill his lover kept him from getting laid. "Technically, she had committed rape. Realistically she was confident she had fulfilled many a male's dream," the character rationalizes. Yeah...more than just "technically" rape. Things go downhill from there...

* In ''AWorkingOfStars'' by Debra Doyle and D. James Macdonald, a [[spoiler:spy, Iulan Vai]] takes advantage of a convalescing Arekhon's semi-consciousness to have sex with him even though his semi-conscious state means he cannot truly consent. Arekhon believes she is his lover, Elaeli. Even more creepy--this act becomes the start of a relationship.

* A similar scenario occurs in the TV series Episode "Polymorph II", though in this case Lister manages to escape before his "wife" can get his clothes off.

* ''Literature/InfernoLarryNivenAndJerryPournelle'': Discussed. When the characters visit the first bolgia of Hell's Seventh Circle, where seducers are sent, Benito explains that the word that Dante used was closer to what English means by "rape". Allen, seeing women in the crowd, wonders aloud how a girl could be a rapist. Benito replies that there are other ways to force oneself onto another outside of direct violence.

* In ''Literature/FangsOfKaath'', characters of both genders are vilified both by the narrative and the heroes when they rape females. However, Fatima's attempt to rape Raschid [[note]](which involves sneaking into his bed, groping him, forcefully kissing him even after repeated refusals on Raschid's part, and ''throwing a vase at the wall when he refuses'')[[/note]] is considered, in-universe, a minor annoyance. At the end, Raschid asks her to stay in the palace and "remain [his] friend", even giving her a lavish promotion! Fatima feels guilty for all of two pages, and then she is totally forgiven and gets her happy ending. Compare this to the rapists Maru and Abbas, who are hated by everyone and unambiguously portrayed as villains.
* ''Literature/SheIsTheOne'': Our narrator and protagonist is Jack, in his sophomore year of high school at the start of the story, and his siblings Alan and Amanda (triplets the same age as him, a year behind him in school due to childhood illness, and looking more like each other than him.) Amanda has some disturbing, but somewhat understandable as a sixteen-year-old, confusions about the nature of love, lust, sexuality, and non-sexual intimacy and bonding. She and Alan have been having sex for a time at the start of the story, and she soon discovers Jack has discovered this and starts trying to seduce him, too. When he turns her down, he wakes up one night to find himself handcuffed to the bed with her on top of him. He can't stop her from giving him oral sex, but does stop her from going any further by stating [[ThatCameOutWrong he wants to lose his virginity to someone he actually cares about]]. Between this unintendedly harsh barb and her assault, their relationship is heavily strained for years afterward, with Jack exhibiting classic victim behaviors, afraid to be alone with Amanda and constantly questioning her motives. They do make repairs and ultimately end up closer than they were before, before Amanda again brings up this incident and admits that what she did was rape by any definition you care to name. Jack refuses the term, seemingly because he can't allow the sentence "my sister raped me" to exist in his brain without his head exploding.
* ''Literature/TaraDuncan:'' In the 10th book, Robin is raped by a female demon [[BedTrick pretending to be Tara.]] While the demon is punished for this by the Prince of Demons, Tara and the rest of the cast treats the event as Robin cheating on her. While Tara does have a point in that Robin should have known it wasn't her due to her flat-out telling him she wasn't ready for sex just a day before, it still comes off her as [[BlamingTheVictim blaming him for being assaulted.]]
* In ''Literature/TheWorldAccordingToGarp,'' the title character is conceived when his mother, Jenny, rapes a wounded, dying man in her care--an act made creepier because the man was mentally devolving into an infantile state and seemed to regard Jenny as a mother figure. While male-on-female rape is a constant theme in the remainder of the book, Jenny's female-on-male rape is presented (by the other characters, if not necessarily the author) as a revolutionary act, and is never referred to as rape. In TheFilmOfTheBook, however, someone calls it out as rape.
* Forms the primary plot motivator in the novel and later film ''Film/{{Disclosure}}''. An employee eventually storms away from his former lover and current StrawFeminist boss after she starts giving him fellatio. As revenge, she sues *him* for sexual harassment and the inherent DoubleStandard of this trope is what really vexes the male main character. Fortunately, the employee, with anonymous email tips, manages to find a sexual harassment attorney who specializes in dealing with men as victims. With her help and a helpful audio recording where the employee is heard refusing the woman's advances at least fifty times, he is fully vindicated. It's only after he finds out that the ''company president'' has succumbed to the woman's wiles that things get worse for him.
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' books, Mat encounters the widowed Queen of Ebou Dar, a nation in which men are second-class citizens. Mat is repeatedly raped by the Queen, frequently tied down at knife-point and forced to be her sexual servant against his will. This is all treated as [[BlackComedyRape comedy]] because Mat is normally a consumate flirt. The fact that he is sexually victimized is treated as [[DisproportionateRetribution his come-uppance]] for his previous behavior. When finally freed of the Queen's subjugation, he reflects that he will miss her. If the sexes were reversed, this would be seen as a creepy example of UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome, but due to the prevailing theme of dominant, aggressive women in the series, it's more likely a case of AuthorAppeal.
* In the book ''[[Literature/ConradsTimeMachine Conrad's Time Machine]]'', the main character is raped by three women; he says he doesn't think they should be prosecuted like male rapists should, and in fact we later discover this was part of his bachelor party that his best friend set up for him.
* In Peter David's ''The Woad to Wuin'' (sequel to ''Sir Apropos of Nothing''), the first chapter is a parody of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' in which the eponymous character finds "the One Thing to Rule Them All", an artifact which makes him irresistible to women (as well as perpetually virile), including his [[{{Tsundere}} antagonist love interest]]. He spends quite a few days tied down in an inn being raped by women before being rescued by a mock-Fellowship, and going off (unwillingly) to rid himself of the Thing. When he finally succeeds and returns, he of course is blamed for "forcing" himself on the woman, and she storms off.
* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Literature/TheOccupationSaga: Between Worlds''. Protagonist Jason is sexually assaulted in a bar bathroom by a pair of Interior officers and Freyxh helps fight them off. She's far more pissed about it than he is: largely as a byproduct of his Earth upbringing where things usually worked the other way, Jason has trouble internalizing that that it even ''was'' an AttemptedRape and therefore feels more weirded out by the experience than violated.
* In the ''Literature/RedDwarf'' novel ''Last Human'', Lister is forced to marry a hideously ugly Gelf (Genetically Engineered Life Form). The situation is played mostly for laughs, but his emotions during the sex are touched on in a curiously realistic way:
-->Oh, my God, he was close to climax. She really knew what she was doing. Oh, he was so disgusted. Did he have no self-control? She was descended from hippos, for God's sake.
* A similar scenario occurs in the TV series Episode "Polymorph II", though in this case Lister manages to escape before his "wife" can get his clothes off.

* Played straight in Ken Follett's ''Literature/WorldWithoutEnd''. Merthin is raped by Griselda, the daughter of the man of whom he is an apprentice. It turns out [[spoiler:it was all a plot by Elfric so he would not have to give Merthin a free set of tools and a full guild membership, however.]]
* The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' does this with Dathomir. Luke even moralizes about everything wrong with this trope. Then later Luke and Ben go back to Dathomir, and Ben asks "What kind of woman could I find here anyway?"
* In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Literature/HorusHeresy novel ''False Gods'', one of the many indignities Maggard suffers as a bodyguard is being his mistress's SexSlave. She thinks it's this trope, and in fact some recompense for his fighting ability winning him more respect from the Astartes than she gets.
* In ''Literature/FallenAngels'' (by Niven/Pournelle/Flynn), Captain Lee Arteria (female) announces that she will be taking Bob Needleton's seed with her when she leaves. They've only just met, and when he hesitates, she explicitly says: "I didn't ask." There are several other people watching, and only one person asks "Shouldn't we be trying to rescue him?" However, he doesn't bear a grudge.
* In ''AWorkingOfStars'' by Debra Doyle and D. James Macdonald, a [[spoiler:spy, Iulan Vai]] takes advantage of a convalescing Arekhon's semi-consciousness to have sex with him even though his semi-conscious state means he cannot truly consent. Arekhon believes she is his lover, Elaeli. Even more creepy--this act becomes the start of a relationship.
* In the ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'' series, while on the Dasati homeworld, [[spoiler:rebel leader Naureen, who's sheltering hero Pug and co, conscripts Pug's son Magnus as her boy toy. Magnus clearly isn't okay with this, but neither Pug nor Magnus really objects, and the whole thing is treated as not a big deal.]] The incident isn't mentioned again.
* In ''Film/AbsolutePower1996'' by David Baldacci, the President is having an affair with the wife of a wealthy supporter. Unfortunately, he is abusive, and his lover attacks him with a letter opener, causing the Secret Service to shoot her dead. His chief of staff goes into full spin mode, and has them leave her with the President, who's passed out on the bed from the shock. She then ''has sex with him while he's unconscious''. Why? Because she has a thing for him, and feels sorry the unfortunate fact that the Secret Service had to kill his lover kept him from getting laid. "Technically, she had committed rape. Realistically she was confident she had fulfilled many a male's dream," the character rationalizes. Yeah...more than just "technically" rape. Things go downhill from there...

* In ''Literature/TheMahabharata'', Ulupi drags Arjuna underwater and propositions him, threatening to commit suicide after his initial refusal. Even though she's a total stranger, Arjuna considers this romantic and sexy. Compare this to the scene where Durodhyana threatens to rape Draupadi, a show of cruelty so enraging that several other Kshatriya (including Krishna, who is ''literally'' virtue incarnate) declare war on him.

* {{Justified}} in ''Literature/TheOccupationSaga: Between Worlds''. Protagonist Jason is sexually assaulted in a bar bathroom by a pair of Interior officers and Freyxh helps fight them off. She's far more pissed about it than he is: largely as a byproduct of his Earth upbringing where things usually worked the other way, Jason has trouble internalizing that that it even ''was'' an AttemptedRape and therefore feels more weirded out by the experience than violated.

* In the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics, the infamous Cyclops/Emma Frost affair essentially started as this. Long story short: Cyke wasn't mentally in the best of health, Emma offered him therapy, then she uses this as an excuse to telepathically bang him. Seriously. Now flip their genders; what would happen to a male therapist if they convinced their female patient to have sex with them to deal with their issues? What makes this example even worse, Emma is treated like the victim and RomanticSue in the resulting love triangle with all her seriously out-of-order behavior being ignored because 'she was in love with him', and ''Cyclops'' is ''still'' getting crap, in-universe and out, for cheating on his wife. It might not help that he got together with Emma immediately after his wife's death, but that was literally because Jean made him get together with her to avoid the X-Men falling apart.

* ''Fanfic/InTheBleakMidwinter'': When Hermione refers to Merope's actions as rape, Tom struggles to reconcile that in his head, since the idea of a woman being able to rape a man is foreign to his thinking (especially living in the 1920s). After considering it, however, he realises that Hermione is correct, that's exactly what it was.