When it is stated or implied that a character is gay because of sexual assault from an Always Male abuser.
According to this trope, both male and female victims exhibit the same response to rape, which is to become attracted to the same sex. Men become attracted to men, and women become repulsed by men. This trope is based on the premise that heterosexuality is the "default" state, and that people are only gay as a psychological response to sexual trauma: addiction for men and revulsion for women. The further implication is that being gay is inherently unhealthy and interferes with a "normal" sex life.
A variant is where a secretly (or not-so-secretly) gay character is propelled violently from the closet by unwelcome sexual contact. This version is always the male/male subtrope, and verges on "victim falls for rapist." While this can happen, it is not likely. The PG version of this reduces intercourse to some milder form of sexual contact, usually a kiss.
Finally, there's the real life Homophobic Hate Crime of corrective rape
, where the victim is raped in order to force conformity for the social norms of the place and time; commonly but not exclusively targeted at gay people in order to turn them heterosexual.
It is Not a Subversion when a rape survivor doesn't become gay, nor is it automatically played straight if a gay person is a rape survivor. The work must establish a clear connection between sexual assault and sexual orientation. This trope is passing into Discredited Trope territory. In real life, abuse survivors are as likely to be any sexual orientation as anyone else, and there is no one definite thing that puts people on the LGBTQ spectrum.
An exception is fanfiction. Many fanfics love this trope, using it to an absurd degree, often with Squick-y and disturbing results. Hentai and other pornographic stories involving some form of rape of a target whose sexuality is not in preference of the rapist's gender are often guilty of this as well, and it remains a common trope in Boys' Love fiction. Related to Cure Your Gays (if the character embarks on pleasant heterosexual sex and consequently has a change of orientation). May overlap with Promiscuity After Rape.
Has no relation with Bait-and-Switch.
Examples of raped men turning gay:
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Anime & Manga
- Legato Bluesummers from the Trigun manga is shown to have been raped (possibly numerous times) by the town mayor, or someone like a mayor. After he gets rescued by Knives he is later seen being only attracted to and in love with men (namely Knives and possibly Vash).note
- Suzu from the Peacemaker Kurogane manga. He was "adopted" by a rich old man and raped. This apparently caused him to become gay (as well as Ax-Crazy). It's pretty obvious when he wears nail polish, effeminate clothes, lipstick, flirts with men, and acts like a Stalker with a Crush with Tetsunosuke.
- Genkaku from Deadman Wonderland, after getting repeatedly raped and beaten by a group of bullies (who were monk trainees like him) at the temple during his childhood, became gay. He seems to express disgust and contempt towards women, and is shown to have a strong attraction to Nagi. In fact, he pretty much confesses to Nagi that he "loved him."
- Alois Trancy in the second season of Black Butler. In the beginning of the first episode, Alois is shown with many bruises all over his body and marks around his ankles, and he is shown laying in bed naked next to an old man who likewise unclothed. This is confirmed in episode 8 where we see Lord Trancy made him his favorite Sex Slave. Following that we see him do things like alternate between being Ax-Crazy and cute and innocent at the drop of a hat, treat his female maid like complete crap, act in a flamboyant manner, wear black stockings with high-heeled boots and short-shorts, act very attached to his butler Claude and pretty much flirts with Sebastian when he first meets him by leaning into him, smelling him and proclaiming that Sebastian "smells good". In the fifth episode he cross-dresses as a maid, pretty much tries to seduce Ciel and outright tells Ciel that he "wants" him. He also confesses his love for Claude and is a Yandere for him. This is only a partial example, since we don't know for certain that the rape caused his status as a Depraved Homosexual, but it's heavily implied that it led to him becoming tremendously twisted, perhaps affecting his conceptions of sex worst of all. He also, before meeting Lord Trancy, was implied to have sold his body to people for money once his remaining family member died and he was left alone hence why he was so knowledgeable about how to entice Lord Trancy to him.
- Gilbert Cocteau from Kaze to Ki no Uta, who is believed to be the inspiration for Alois Trancy. He was raped first by his father (whom he believed to be his uncle), and then by Bonnard. Auguste himself was raped by his brother, and in fact, he adopted Gilbert solely for that purpose.
- Sakura Gari: Definitely Masataka is going this way, but he manages to just scrape through on a subversion in that Masataka was turned on when Souma hit on him in the library back in the very first chapter, indicating at least some kind of attraction before that point, but it still swerves close enough to this trope played straight to be a little uncomfortable. The fact that their relationship before this point was rather more pure and platonic with serious Ho Yay subtext could also be seen as another way this trope was subverted. It's still not a nice outcome for the poor boy, though.
- Souma on the other hand, has this trope played rather more straight, where he was raped and used for sex by so many people that he eventually came to just not distinguish between genders and would sleep with men or women.
- This seems to be the case with Jeremy from A Cruel God Reigns. A the beginning of the series, he has a girlfriend and has no interest in other men that he shows, but the longer Greg sexually and physically abuses him, the more interested in men (or more specifically, Ian), he becomes, although he does have feelings for Nadia for a short period. Eventually Jeremy becomes a Hooker with a Heart of Gold because of his blatant post-traumatic stress disorder and consequential drug addiction, which probably doesn't help him out either. If anything, Jeremy is probably bisexual.
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn's Angelo Sauper, one of the few canonically gay Gundam characters, is implied to have been turned gay by his sexually abusive stepfather in the novel version. This was, understandably, omitted from the more well known anime version.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena: Touga is revealed to have been raped by his stepfather as a child in the movie which makes all his relationships with both men and women fall into nightmare territory. He goes through woman like tissue paper, sleeps with Miki in a scene hinting at dubious consent in the novels, has a close relationship with his adoptive sister Nanami, has a thing for Utena (and approaches her in the novels after his 'scene' with Miki which makes Miki worry for her), and is implied to have slept with Akio and had a three way with Saionji (who he manipulates very cruelly) and Akio. The relationship between Nanami and Touga especially falls into No Yay, thanks to her sheer obsession with him and the way he emotionally manipulates her. It all reaches a head in episode 32, in which Touga suddenly tries to rape Nanami in Akio's car (which she fights off in horror) and gets angry because if sex isn't what she wanted, then what does she want? Actually, the sheer level of bullshit he pulls on her in that episode is nightmarish in itself. That Touga's idea of family love and even romance has been so completely warped by the rape makes the entire mess chilling, to say the least.
- Anri's past as a Sex Slave in Adekan is implied to have had a hand in turning him into a psychotic Depraved Bisexual that is so depraved he'll even go after a male panda. Not to mention going through the motions of attempting rape himself on males and females.
- Shiro is implied to have been a Sex Slave as well and while he's primarily into women, his heart has considerably softened in regards to the kindhearted Kojiro and it's implied that he's fallen in love with him. He also has numerous intimate scenes with his sworn brother Anri.
- Okane ga Nai: In an example of rape leading to romance, Ayase is raped by Kanou and is made a Sex Slave. He's terrified of Kanou at first but Kanou's soft spot and love towards him makes him fall in love with Kanou as well, partially because he Desperately Craves Affection. As of chapter 37, it's made pretty clear that Ayase has developed into being If It's You, It's Okay for Kanou.
- Fushigi Yuugi: Nakago was molested at a young age possibly leading to his status as a Depraved Bisexual later on who preyed on both Tamahome and Miaka to a lesser extent to assert his dominance and power over them.
- Mutsuki of Tokyo Ghoul is revealed to be a trans male with psychotic feelings for Sasaki/Kaneki. We learn the reason he became psychotic was due to loneliness and jealousy and a messed up past involving a alcoholic father who sexually, physically, and verbally abused him. He became afraid of men due to his father which is implied to be the reason why he transitioned from a female to a male who had feelings for another kinder male, as a means to protect himself from being victimized again. He tried to kill Touka for being the one Kaneki loved but ultimately ends up being redeemed. The scene where he holds a cut off and disfigured hand (albeit fake) with a wedding ring on it which he says is from Touka’s beloved friend in a bid to get at Touka is particularly memorable.
- In Gravitation, Yuki revealed he was raped when he was younger, leading to his preference for multiple partners male and female, as well as triggering his depression.
Comic Books
- Chick Tracts have this trope up the ass. To the point that the change in sexual preference is explained by possession by a "demon of defilement" because of rape that occurred during their childhood. It's not just men turning gay, but it usually is.
- Spider-Man: Electro attributes his wanting to experiment with his sexuality with the time he spent in prison.
- Striker in Avengers Academy, a former child actor who was molested by his manager as a young boy, wonders if this is why he's gay. Both discussed and subverted when his classmate Julie Power shoots down this notion, and tells a crying Striker that his abuser does not hold that sort of power over him.
Fan Works
- A variation is referenced but not actually accurate in Hivefled, where the victim wonders if his abuse caused his genderfluid status. It didn't, but he hadn't really thought about it until that point.
Films — Live-Action
- In the Paul Verhoeven film, Spetters, a character preys on gay men, leading them on before beating them up and robbing them. The tables are turned when he is gang raped, accepts himself as gay and begins a relationship with one of his rapists. Steven Spielberg recommended Verhoeven for Return of the Jedi. Then he saw this. The rest is history.
- Though not a true example of this trope, Kick-Ass deserves mention here. Early on, the main character removes his secret superhero costume after being severely beaten, and his dad and his schoolmates believe that he has been raped by muggers and that he is now gay or had been working as a male prostitute.
- In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, after being seduced by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Brad Majors becomes gay and interested in crossdressing. Some of the unmade sequels would have said that the events of the first film turned Brad gay. Rocky Horror Shows His Heels has Brad leaving Janet and shacking up with Dr. Scott and Revenge of the Old Queen said that he left Janet to become a bottomless go-go dancer in Las Vegas.
- The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Dacyshyn and Tomczeszyn are lovers were both molested by Father Joe as kids, so this implication is present.
Literature
- Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series. McCaffrey herself once said in an interview that being anally penetrated will cause a man to become gay and mentioned that she once a knew a guy who became gay after being raped with a tent-peg. The tent-peg story has undergone much Memetic Mutation, especially in fanfic criticism circles where a tent-peg will often be blamed if a character in a fic inexplicably switches orientation. Make comparisons to trying to fit round pegs into square holes at your own discretion.
- Possibly the reason for Jarl's sexuality in Brent Weeks' The Night Angel Trilogy. Early in the first book, as a child, Jarl is raped by Rat (or at least such is implied), and upon his return to the plot as an adult, it is revealed that he is bisexual.
- In Chuck Palahniuk's novel Pygmy, the titular Villain Protagonist (a Teen Superspy sent by a People's Republic of Tyranny to destroy America) brutally sodomizes a bully named Trevor in a bathroom stall as revenge for harassing him, causing him (referred to as "Trevor bitch anus" from there on out) to grow sexually attracted to Pygmy. This may be some kind of commentary on this phenomenon in fiction, since Palahniuk himself is gay and has written several gay characters before.
- In Stephen King's Rose Madder, one character is believed to have been made gay by two of his father's friends taking turns performing oral sex on him when he was a young child. It's unclear if he actually is though- Norman is just convinced of it.
- Ellen Hopkins' novel Impulse uses this trope. After being raped by his mother's boyfriend at age 8 and later men in jail, Tony assumes himself to be gay for many years. However, he later finds himself attracted to and begins a relationship with a young woman. At any rate, it's heavily implied that Tony was not born gay, but "never really had the chance" not to be.
- Implied in The Silence of the Lambs. "Jame is not really gay, it's just something he picked up in prison."
- In the Norwegian book Yearning (Part of a long series called Legend Of The Ice People) a male character was molested as a child and later get "Cured" when falling in love with the heroine. It's unclear if it's a case of Unfortunate Implications and ignorance or homophobia.
- Played with in the furry novel A Fox Tail, a psychologist suggests that Vulpie isn't actually gay but thinks he is due to being raped repeatedly by a Pedophile Priest and his buddies. His loving relationship with Polar notwithstanding.
- Hamlet's Father by Orson Scott Card has as part of its backstory Hamlet's father raping pretty much the entire male cast (except maybe Claudius and Polonious). It is implied this turns them all gay (Card denies it, but he's said in the past homosexuality is caused that way). This is why Hamlet's insane. Also, Horatio killed Hamlet's dad as revenge for the aforementioned orientation-destroying sodomy.
- In The Kid: Abdul is raped first by an older boy in the foster home he was sent to and then several times by two Pedophile Priests at the orphanage he is sent to. He, in turn, rapes some of the boys in the orphanage. The sad part is that he doesn't even realize what he's doing is wrong; he believes what he's doing is an act of love and that they wanted to do it (the first one actually did, but the other ones definitely did not)
- Invoked in Yes, Daddy. Jonah's deeply Christian family believes that the only way he would've "turned" out gay if he was molested by another man. They subject him to conversion therapy until he (falsely) accuses his father under a great deal of pressure and hypnotism.
Live-Action TV
- Accused (2023): Discussed as it turns out Jamie was sexually abused as a child, which Robyn suspects made him think it caused his attraction to men. He points out this isn't true; Jamie would have felt this way regardless.
- Baby Reindeer: Discussed. Danny has a girlfriend, Keeley, when he's raped by his would-be mentor, Damian, a man. He discovers that he's attracted to men (and trans women) in the aftermath, and struggles with knowing if he is this way "because" he was raped by a man or not, and worries that he asked for his rape due to his sexuality. He comes to some acceptance that he didn't and comes out as bisexual.
- Implied in an episode of Law & Order: SVU when the team tracks down a victim of sexual assault in his childhood, who's become a homosexual prostitute in the present day.
- Implied by Mike Tyson in a press conference, where he responded to a (male) heckler in the crowd with "I'll fuck you 'til you love me, faggot!"
- The victims of Woody Goodman on Veronica Mars. Of the 4 we know about, one was definitely gay, another was sexually "on the fence" (as another character put it), and one... well... it's subject to Alternate Character Interpretation, but there's definitely subtext. The fourth victim we know about (or was strongly implied) doesn't have his sexuality brought into the whole thing, but he was less important than the first 3.
Theater
- This is assumed (by the other characters) to be the case with Beethoven in Dog Sees God. Even after he enters a relationship with CB it's unclear.
Web Original
Examples of raped women turning lesbian:
Anime & Manga
- In After School Nightmare, Damsel in Distress Kureha falls in love with protagonist Mashiro for this reason: she was raped when she was in kindergarten, and overheard her father saying some very brutal things to her mother, which lead her to severely distrust and hate men. So when she finds out that Mashiro is pretty much a flat-chested girl that looks like a guy, she falls in love with him/her.
- In Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu both Natsuki and Fuyuka have an aversion to men due to traumatic past experiences, although it's never claimed that this is the cause of their lesbianism.
- An unusual case occurs in Blue Drop, where women are trained from youth to be lesbian Sex Slaves for the Arume. This is an example of women being raped by women with the intention of turning them gay.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena: Utena initially identifies herself as a “perfectly normal girl who wants a perfectly normal guy.” It’s when Akio pressures her into a dubious sex scene with him that she becomes more inclined towards her close friend and “Rose Bride” Anthy who she gets naked with and kisses in the movie.
- Revy of Black Lagoon was physically assaulted and raped by a corrupt cop as a child as her Start of Darkness. Later, invokes Depraved Bisexual towards Jane either genuinely or as a threat when the latter mentions how she wants to rope Rock into an orgy with her and Revy is implied to be in love with Rock. In her statement to Jane she says she could make Jane her bitch in prison if she wanted as she "played the man's role to some sex-starved dykes" while in prison and after that "their fingers weren't enough for them anymore."
- Implied with Yuri from Penguindrum who as revealed in episode 15 has a bad past involving her father carving her body with a chisel to make her "worthy of being loved". It's made even worse by the fact that this can be interpreted as a metaphor for physical and sexual abuse, with the pounding and nudity imagery. Later on, she falls heavily in love with Momoka and becomes a lesbian, going as far as to try to rape Ringo (Momoka’s sister) because she looks so much like Momoka (and Momoka has long been deceased.)
- In Maken-ki!, Furan Takaki is said to have become an androphobic lesbian after being nearly raped by Big Bad Ouken.
Fan Works
- At least one Firefly fic does this, though the character isn't raped, just threatened with rape (for specifics, the paring was River/Kaylee, where Kaylee was really shaken up by Early's threats in Objects In Space).
- Subverted in the Lyrical Nanoha fic, Behind The Smile. Hayate was sexually abused in her childhood, and becomes quite uncomfortable around men, deciding to act as though she's attracted to her female friends to get the boys at school to leave her alone. She does, however, eventually fall for Yuuno.
- While she's bisexual for most of the story, Blackjack of Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons becomes deathly afraid of stallions after she's brutally gang raped as part of a Trauma Conga Line that involved her horn getting smashed off, her legs nailed to the floor, necessitating them to be sawed off, and eventually dying of her injuries and only getting better due to a scientist character giving her her prosthetics, leaving said scientist as a Brain in a Jar. When she leaves the group for a while as a part of it she has to physically restrain herself from lashing out against another stallion she meets when he playfully slaps her behind. She gets better, though.
Films — Live-Action
- Discussed in But I'm a Cheerleader when Jan says that she's actually straight and that she was just sent to the camp because she's butch, but the counselors told her that she has to be lesbian because she was molested as a child.
- Eloïse's Lover: Àsia's friends joke cruelly that perhaps Eloïse became a lesbian from being raped.
- In Hooded Angels, it is strongly implied that the reason Ellie is a lesbian is because her first sexual experience was being raped by Sociopathic Soldiers.
Literature
- In the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony, a female Adeptnote is lesbian because of rape in her childhood. Note that this was Anthony trying to be nice about lesbians, after people misinterpreted the man-hating Red Adept as lesbian earlier and wrote him angry letters. He was trying, but still missed the mark.
- Pussy Galore in the novel Goldfinger became a lesbian after she was molested by her uncle as a child. She "changes back" when James Bond's appearance seduces her. In an interview, when discussing inspirations for playing her character, the actress who played Pussy Galore said something along the lines of "I knew she was a lesbian, so I tried to play somebody who had been abused as a child."
- A rather bizarre version occurred in the Christopher Moore novel Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings. A pair of female marine biologists are at sea researching the mating patterns of humpback whales, when their tiny boat is caught between a female humpback and a pair of males. After being savagely beaten by ten foot long penises and covered in gallons of whale semen, they promptly decide to become lesbians and start dating each other. Slightly excusable in that the story is a very dark comedy and not meant to be taken seriously.
- The novel Dead Sleep: a murdered woman's close friend was raped as a child or young teen, and became a lesbian later on.
- In the novel Hannibal, Margot Verger becomes a lesbian after her horrible childhood of being raped by her brother, Mason. It's briefly implied that she may actually be bisexual when there seems to be mutual attraction between her and Barney when they're in the showers together, but it never goes any further. When the novel was adapted for the TV series of Hannibal Word of God says the part where it caused her lesbianism (though she is still a lesbian) was specifically left out because of the Unfortunate Implications.
- Discussed in How NOT to Write a Novel. One small segment has you fill in the blank after each question with one of four responses, then scores your response based on how much of a cliché it was - In her childhood, the lesbian: "was sexually abused" is ranked as most cliché, with the others, in decreasing order, being "liked to play with trucks, not dolls," "had a crush on her pretty aunt" and "made porcupines cry with the sheer beauty of her knitting."
- In The Hotel New Hampshire, Franny decides to try out women after being raped, but she later decides it isn't for her. The author is too good to try to claim a Rape and Switch, he just notes she is quite confused about her emotional state.
- Molly, from Rubyfruit Jungle, was raped by her female roommate, which helped her realize that she was a lesbian.
- Steel Beach approaches this in a more "realistic" fashion. The character who was raped is bisexual, and in fact is attracted to the male main character, but can't quite bring herself to have sex with him until he becomes a woman.
- A debatable example in one of Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small characters. Lalasa has had a seriously shitty life; she's been raped, attempted-raped, or otherwise abused by a variety of men including her own brother. Sure enough, Word of God has it that she's a lesbian, and while the sexual abuse she's suffered isn't said to have caused it per se it does leave the interpretation open.
- Mistle from The Time of Contempt and Baptism of Fire is revealed to have been gang-raped and left for dead by the soldiers of an invading army. She survived and found her will to fight again, but only had relationships with women thereafter. In TOC, she also rapes Ciri, making her if not lesbian, then at least bisexual.
- Maybe Celie from The Color Purple (1985). She says she is rather afraid of men when contemplating her attraction to women.
- In the second book of the Great and Terrible Beauty trilogy, it's revealed that Felcity was molested by her father as a child. In the third book, her relationship with Pippa is revealed as explicitly romantic, just in time for Pippa to go mad with power and die.
Live-Action TV
- Cruel Summer: A possible interpretation of Kate's sexuality. Kate dates Jamie and falls obsessively in love with Martin after being groomed by him. After being groomed and abused by Martin, she falls in love with Mallory. While she could be bisexual, she never shows any interest in women before the fact.
- Tara from True Blood is dating a woman as of the fourth season. While it's explicitly stated that she's bi, there are still Unfortunate Implications that she only gave women a try because she was raped by a male vampire in season 3.
- In one episode of the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black, Vause threatens to rape Pennsatucky, and implies that Pennsatucky will enjoy it so much that she will become gay. This is an unusual example in that it is a case where rape by another woman is implied to turn a woman gay, although it should be noted that this does not actually happen; Vause only threatens it. It should also be noted that Vause likely doesn't believe what she's saying, she's simply using Pennsatucky's deluded notions about gay people.
- In Riverdale, There's the Unfortunate Implications that after Cheryl Blossom dates numerous boys and Nick St. Clair attempting to date-rape her, she becomes traumatized, comes out as a closet lesbian and eventually develops a Yandere obsessive crush on Josie and date Toni Topaz.
- Discussed In One Day at a Time (2017), Elena's cousin Pailla tells her the story of how her mother doesn't accept her for being a lesbian and simply tells people that she's gay because she was attacked by a man in college. However, it was actually a female squirrel who attacked her.
Theater
- The Vagina Monologues has a rather controversial piece where a character is raped by men multiple times as a child... but becomes a lesbian because she is "healed" when seduced (while underage, making it statutory rape) by another woman. This piece is censored to remove lines like her declaring the experience to be "good rape" and raising her age from 13 to 16, mostly because in the view of the monologues, this experience is a good thing. Some performances cut this monologue entirely because for many people, it makes the rest of the play almost unwatchable.
Video Games
- Fallout: New Vegas has Corporal Betsy, who was raped by Cook-Cook before trying to eat her. She and her squadmate survived, but she entered denial of the events and started aggressively hitting on any women she encountered. One of the quests in the game involve helping her to seek help to deal with her trauma.
Web Original
- Relatively justified in Ilivais X, because for Iriana, straight sex would feel the same as getting repeatedly electrocuted for anyone else (due to inverting reception of pain and pleasure), which she found out the hard way. Several times. Before the age of 15. It makes sense that for her to enjoy any kind of intimacy at all, it would have be with a girl simply because the painful aspect isn't even possible.
- Limyaael's Fantasy Rants: She criticizes the portrayal of women having become lesbian due to being raped in both her feminist fantasy and gay characters rants.
Webcomics
- Rocky from Too Much Information (2005) at least had the false memory of her father raping her put into her head by suggestion, and likely was raped by one or more of his friends. As a result, as becomes clear when she sleepwalks into a male roommate's bed, her bisexuality is repressed by a complex over the idea of sex with men, until she ultimately starts a relationship with a male-identified full-time transvestite (who, interestingly, had previously identified as gay, with no such "excuse") who lets her, uniquely, refer to him with female pronouns.
Examples of raped women turning straight:
Anime and Manga
- Revolutionary Girl Utena: When Ruka Tsuchiya came into the picture, one of the actions he took to try "freeing" Juri from her Shiori-centered self-destructive spiral was attempting to molest her. Taking in consideration that Juri is a lesbian or at very least super-fixed on a female, this deal can be easily seen as Ruka using borderline corrective rape on Juri: she's obsessed with a girl, he sexually assaults her, she drops said "obsession" and turns to him. (Or would turn since Ruka is dead by the end of the episode).
- Immediately after the sexual assault, Ruka reveals that he's gotten hold of Juri's locket, then drops it to the floor and threatens to crush it under his foot — which begs the unsettling question of when and how he got it off her in the first place, especially since Juri always keeps her locket under her clothes. Even more disturbingly, there's some speculation that Ruka actually did rape Juri in Akio's car. Between the abovementioned sexual assault and the car scene, Juri challenges Ruka to a fencing duel and says that if she loses, she'll do what he wants. She does lose. Later, in the dueling arena just before Ruka draws Juri's sword, she acts strangely quiet and subdued. Think about it. Granted, the theory relies heavily on the assumption that every Akio Car scene is a stand-in for sex (and Juri's car scene is one of the least sexualized of them all) but the possibility is still there, and it's completely horrifying.
Literature
- The Villain Protagonist of L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series gets tortured by a pair of lesbians hoping to use this trope to turn him gay, as outlined in the strategy of "Psychiatric Birth Control." The next book he gets them back by raping them, and the experience not only cures them of their psychologist indoctrination, but leads them to not only beg him to stay and have sex with them every night, but actually pay him to do so. Then the book after that, they start rounding up their other lesbian friends and bringing them over for him to have sex with, in one case forcing a woman to submit.
Films — Live-Action
- Referenced in Chasing Amy, where Holden's friend Banky brags that "lesbians need a good dicking". Holden doesn't find it funny.
Live-Action TV
- Invoked in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The episode "Conversion" focuses on a boy named Lucas Hale who rapes his gay church member under the genuine belief that he was doing so to turn her straight, and save her soul. It was ordered by their reverend, and was actually doubled. Lucas is gay himself, and the reverend believed it would "cure" them both. The victim eventually deconstructs the entire idea, pointing out you can't change someone.
Music
- Eminem's "Underground" uses this as part of a Darker and Edgier Boastful Rap as his accent-hopping Serial Killer Horrorcore incarnation of Slim Shady:
Fuckin' lesbian shouldn't have had her legs in the wayNow she's pregnant and gay, missin' both legs and beggin' to stay
Examples of raped men turning straight
Literature
- In I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Benny was gay before meeting AM. Unlike most examples of the trope, though, AM's violation of Benny's body and mind is done directly and intentionally, as AM is capable of changing the brains and bodies of his victims as easily as editing them in Photoshop. Making Benny heterosexual came along with changing him from a handsome, austere man into a brutish "ape-thing" with exaggerated sexual organs, ostensibly forcing him to become the absolute worst expression of what heterosexualty is supposed to represent.
Live-Action TV
- Criminal Minds: The episode "Broken" includes a number of "conversion camps". One of the methods includes hiring a female prostitute to "rape them straight". Not only does it not work, one member of the camps is so traumatized he snaps and goes on a killing spree.
- Shameless (US): Terry attempted to convert Mickey by forcing Svetlana to rape him at gunpoint. It didn't stick.
Examples of multiple of the above
Fan Works
- In Supper Smash Bros: Mishonh From God, the "libruls" bring more people to their side by having an agent of the same sex as the target rape them, instantly turning them gay (and thus "evil", in accordance with the author's views). This happens to both men and women several times over the course of the series.
