History Main / PromiscuityAfterRape

** Several lines in none-too-subtly imply that [[FormerChildStar Sarah Lynn]]'s promiscuity was at least partially the result of being molested by her bear-man stepfather. She mentions to one of her ''Horsin' Around'' co-stars that he homeschools her and that he's a [[ThatSoundsFamiliar photographer.]] Later, she remarks that she knows what bear fur [[{{Squick}} tastes like]] because of her stepfather. This, plus Bojack telling her that she should always be [[DramaticIrony vying for the audience's love]] and the general negative demands of show business, particularly those it has of women, result in her growing up to be a sex starlet and, eventually, a junkie. She also seems to have an UsefulNotes/ElectraComplex with [[DirtyOldMan Bojack himself]], her significantly older colleague who [[ParentalSubstitute played the role of her father on TV]] and one of her many sex partners. The one time we see her step-father, he's [[TakeThat a caricature of fashion photographer and accused rapist Terry Richardson]].

A promiscuous character is revealed to have RapeAsBackstory. In fiction, being raped or manipulated into sex often causes a previously-sexually-innocent or moderate character to become very promiscuous. In reality, survivors of sexual abuse cope in a multitude of ways. [[TruthInTelevision While sexual promiscuity is not uncommon in sexual abuse survivors]], the presence of promiscuous behavior does not automatically mean the person was abused in the past or vice versa.

Movies and television shows commonly rely on RapeAsBackStory as a method of deepening CharacterDevelopment, particularly for female characters, implying a straight line between rape and promiscuity with no room for deviation. In fictional works, being forcibly exposed to sex is equivalent to being injected with heroin: an addiction is the likeliest outcome. This may stem from a variety of reasons, ranging from the abused desiring to lose themselves in the pleasurable sensations of sexual intercourse, to being hypersexual in order to punish themselves for [[DefiledForever no longer being "pure"]], to the idea that "If SexIsEvil, ThenLetMeBeEvil!"

Victims of this trope do not make the connection between what happened to them and their present-day behavior. They may find themselves interacting with others as though [[SexEqualsLove sex will automatically lead to love, comfort, or acceptance]] or that [[LoveMartyr abuse in a relationship is acceptable or a sign of love]]. Sociologically, [[TruthInTelevision inappropriate sexual behavior in children is usually a sign that they were sexually abused]], making the FilleFatale particularly prone to this characterization, which is often applied to characters who were very innocent or naive, possibly even children, when they were raped.

* Sharra in ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' due to her belief that she has no prospects in life after being DefiledForever, tries to secure her future by seducing rich and powerful men, instead. She tries and fails to seduce [[CelibateHero Daylen]], and after that, has more success with the newly affluent Sain.

** Several lines in none-too-subtly imply that [[FormerChildStar Sarah Lynn]]'s promiscuity was at least partially the result of being molested by her bear-man stepfather. She mentions to one of her ''Horsin' Around'' co-stars that he homeschools her and that he's a [[ThatSoundsFamiliar photographer.]] Later, she remarks that she knows what bear fur [[{{Squick}} tastes like]] because of her stepfather. This, plus Bojack telling her that she should always be [[DramaticIrony vying for the audience's love]] and the general negative demands of show business, particularly those it has of women, result in her growing up to be a sex starlet and, eventually, a junkie. She also seems to have an ElectraComplex with [[DirtyOldMan Bojack himself]], her significantly older colleague who [[ParentalSubstitute played the role of her father on TV]] and one of her many sex partners. The one time we see her step-father, he's [[TakeThat a caricature of fashion photographer and accused rapist Terry Richardson]].

* Protagonist Don Draper of ''Series/MadMen''. Back when he was still Dick Whitman, aged 13, he moved with his half-brother and stepmother into a brothel owned by his uncle. It's established that he's sexually naive and the environment is very confusing for him. When Dick falls ill with a high fever, Aimee, one of the prostitutes, nurses him back to health by sitting by his bedside and feeding him soup, showing a compassionate maternal side Dick was unused to, as his own stepmother, the only maternal figure he had known up until that point, was regularly cold, and even sometimes outright abusive towards him. When his fever breaks, however, Aimee switches from maternal to predatory. She lies down in the still weakened Dick's bed, and asks him if he "wants to know what the fuss is all about", [[VirginShaming ridiculing his lack of experience]], but Dick explicitly says "no". She teases him about [[AManIsAlwaysEager his visible sexual arousal]] and fondles his genitals despite his request to be left alone. Later on, during an argument with Dick's Uncle Mack, she brags about how she [[PostRapeTaunt "took that boy's cherry"]]. When Dick's stepmother hears this, she immediately assumes it all be his own fault somehow and violently beats him with a wood spoon and calls him [[SexIsEvil derogatory names]]. This mixture of sexual stimulus, shame, fear, and violence is implied to be the source of Don's present-day promiscuity.

* Protagonist Don Draper of ''Series/MadMen''. Back when he was still Dick Whitman, aged 13, he moved with his half-brother and stepmother into a brothel owned by his uncle. It's established that he's sexually naive and the environment is very confusing for him. When Dick falls ill with a high fever, Aimee, one of the prostitutes, nurses him, showing a compassionate maternal side Dick was unused to, as his own stepmother, the only maternal figure he had known up until that point, was regularly cold, and even sometimes outright abusive towards him. When his fever breaks, however, Aimee switches from maternal to predatory. She lies down in the still weakened Dick's bed, and asks him if he "wants to know what the fuss is all about", [[VirginShaming ridiculing his lack of experience]], but Dick explicitly says "no". She teases him about [[AManIsAlwaysEager his visible sexual arousal]] and fondles his genitals despite his request to be left alone. Later on, during an argument with Dick's Uncle Mack, she brags about how she [[PostRapeTaunt "took that boy's cherry"]]. When Dick's stepmother hears this, she immediately assumes it all be his own fault somehow and violently beats him with a wood spoon and calls him [[SexIsEvil derogatory names]]. This mixture of sexual stimulus, shame, fear, and violence is implied to be the source of Don's present-day promiscuity.

* Protagonist Don Draper of ''Series/MadMen''. Back when he was still Dick Whitman, aged 13, he moved with his half-brother and stepmother into a brothel owned by his uncle. It's established that he's sexually naive and the environment is very confusing for him. When Dick falls ill with a high fever, Aimee, one of the prostitutes nurses him, showing a compassionate maternal side Dick was unused to, as his own stepmother, the only maternal figure he had known up until that point, was regularly cold and abusive towards him. When his fever breaks, however, Aimee switches from maternal to predatory. She lies down in the still weakened Dick's bed, and asks him if he "wants to know what the fuss is all about", [[VirginShaming ridiculing his lack of experience]], but Dick explicitly says "no". She teases him about [[AManIsAlwaysEager his visible sexual arousal]] and fondles his genitals despite his request to be left alone. Later on, during an argument with Dick's Uncle Mack, she brags about [[PostRapeTaunt "popping that boy's cherry"]]. When Dick's stepmother hears this, she immediately assumes it all be his own fault somehow and violently beats him with a wood spoon and calls him [[SexIsEvil derogatory names]]. This mixture of sexual stimulus, shame, fear, and violence is implied to be the source of Don's present-day promiscuity.

* Katherine Howard from 'Theatre/{{Six}}' embodies this trope after being molested by her music teacher at 13.

* ''LightNovel/CheatMagicianLifeThatStartedFromBeingJudgedUseless'' has several examples, but the first introduced to the audience is Adventurer's guild capital branch master Reese, a 250-year-old dark elf who was captured after a ship-wreck, enslaved, sold to a brothel, and forced into prostitution to serve a long, long line of depraved and lustful men, denied the option of saying "no," even being healed up again with magic when the Johns went too far so she could keep going. Eventually, she figured out how to use SexMagic to escape, becoming a leading figure in SlaveLiberation, but now, centuries after the event, she's sexually predatory.

* ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'', major villain Nureha is explained to have a [[spoiler:background as a "compensated dater"]], which she was forced to do as a means of survival. When she meets the protagonist, Shiroe, in the game ''Elder Tale'', she finds him to be an intellectual equal and one of the few men she's had pleasant interaction with. She thus develops an [[StalkerWithACrush extreme infatuation]] with him, to the point that her EvilPlan's primary goal is to [[VillainessesWantHeroes get him into her bed]] and will [[IfICantHaveYou destroy everything and everyone else he loves until she's the only option left]]. She also implies that she's been very promiscuous in the meantime, largely as a means of practicing "techniques" that will bring Shiroe the most pleasure once he gives in to her.

* In ''Hawaii'' by Creator/JamesMichener the leper colony on Molokai is a WretchedHive of utter depravity because there is no law. As [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil the fullest expression of this depravity]], women exiled there whose leprosy [[SoBeautifulItsACurse has not disfigured them yet]] are gang-raped for months by the terrifyingly disfigured long-term inhabitants of the leper colony until the women [[RapeLeadsToInsanity are driven insane]] and become promiscuous, either out of [[StrawNihilist nihilism]] or the need to deny the advance of their leprosy has rendered them undesirable, foreshadowing their deaths.

** Several lines in none-too-subtly imply that [[FormerChildStar Sarah Lynn]]'s promiscuity was at least partially the result of being molested by her bear-man stepfather. She mentions to one of her ''Horsin' Around'' co-stars that he homeschools her and that he's a [[ThatSoundsFamiliar photographer.]] Later, she remarks that she knows what bear fur [[{{Squick}} tastes like]] because of her stepfather. This, plus Bojack telling her that she should always be [[DramaticIrony vying for the audience's love]] and the general negative demands of show business, particularly those it has of women, result in her growing up to be a sex starlet and, eventually, a junkie. She also seems to have an [[OedipusComplex Electra complex]] with [[DirtyOldMan Bojack himself]], her significantly older colleague who [[ParentalSubstitute played the role of her father on TV]] and one of her many sex partners. The one time we see her step-father, he's [[TakeThat a caricature of fashion photographer and accused rapist Terry Richardson]].

** Several lines in none-too-subtly imply that [[FormerChildStar Sarah Lynn]]'s promiscuity was at least partially the result of being molested by her bear-man stepfather. She mentions to one of her ''Horsin' Around'' co-stars that he homeschools her and that he's a [[ThatSoundsFamiliar photographer.]] Later, she remarks that she knows what bear fur [[{{Squick}} tastes like]] because of her stepfather. This, plus Bojack telling her that she should always be [[DramaticIrony vying for the audience's love]] and the general negative demands of show business, particularly those it has of women, result in her growing up to be a sex starlet and, eventually, a junkie. She also seems to have an ElectraComplex with [[DirtyOldMan Bojack himself]], her significantly older colleague who [[ParentalSubstitute played the role of her father on TV]] and one of her many sex partners. The one time we see her step-father, he's [[TakeThat a caricature of fashion photographer and accused rapist Terry Richardson]].

* Happens with DC Mickey Webb in ''The Bill'' following his rape. He regularly has one-night stands. It's only after he himself is falsely accused of rape that he gets less promiscuous.

** Implied with [[spoiler:Monaca Towa. She acts rather [[FilleFatale sexually inappropriate for her age]], eventually planting a ForcefulKiss on Nagisa Shingetsu without his consent. Her big brother Haiji openly admits to, in his words, [[PaedoHunt "liking them younger. As young as possible."]] Keep in mind that she was a little girl in the same house as a pedophile...]]

Related to DefiledForever, MadonnaWhoreComplex, MyGirlIsNotASlut, and RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Contrast ParalyzingFearOfSexuality and HatesBeingTouched for inverted reactions to rape.

** Implied with [[spoiler:Monaca Towa. She acts rather [[FilleFatale sexually inappropriate for her age]], eventually planting a ForcefulKiss on Nagisa Shingetsu without his content. Her big brother Haiji openly admits to, in his words, [[PaedoHunt "liking them younger. As young as possible."]] Keep in mind that she was a little girl in the same house as a pedophile...]]

* ''Manga/{{Knights}}'': Euphemia was accidentally doused in aphrodisiacs when her mother was apprehended for witchcraft, and was raped by the guards while in prison. After being rescued by Mist, she uses her body as a weapon by dousing herself in aphrodisiacs and having sex with them until they pass out from exhaustion.

* In ''Film/{{Scream3}}'', it is revealed that Maureen Prescott was gang-raped at a party, thus explaining why she frequently cheated on her husband and essentially leading to the events of the series.

* ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Gary Oak]], depicted as a ten-year-old DirtyKid who's unusually flirtatious with older women, was repeatedly molested by his parents (though he seems to believe it's actually monsters creeping on him).