Where have all the heroes gone?

In My Humble Opinion
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Manny people in the “rape porn” thread in the Pit have admitted to having fantasies about rape (and at least one person tried to enact such a fantasy :D).

Is there anyone here who indulges in fantasies about being saved from a rape, or saving someone else from one? I would imagine there must be; the knight-in-armor/helpless maiden roles are (I think) more firmly ingrained in the collective unconscious than dominant/submissive roles. Or does anyone have fantasies about saving someone/being saved from anything, rape or otherwise? A lot of movie scenes play out one or the other of these ways.

When I was in grade 3, my friend Matthew Penarczyk and I used to play out scenes at a spot we called Damsel-in-Distress rock. First, I would cower and shriek on top of the rock while he fought off a dragon. Sometimes, afterwards, I would hop into his arms, and if we did it right, he wouldn’t fall down. Then he would lie on top of the rock, mortally wounded, and I would come along and heal him with apple juice. “You learned your roles early,” said my psych-major friend in college. “Male as rescuer; woman as nurturer.”

IRL, you’d need a third party to play out the near-rape scenario properly, but there are plenty of other options. There’s been a time or two when Mr. Rilch has been Wolverine, scaring off a pack of wild dogs, after which I reward him for his kindness. And sometimes when he’s really tired, we play it the other way.

Anyone else? C’mon…

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[sub]Where have all the heroes gone?[/sub]
“…and heroes are scarce in this neighborhood, or else simply not to be found.”~~~From Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” , or LOTR, I can’t recall which at the moment.

Sorry, Rilchiam, I couldn’t resist.

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A friend of a friend who does business in Africa had a Rwandan girlfriend a few years back. It wasn’t a long term thing, but it probably saved her from genocide.

I hope that wasn’t too far of a tangent.

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You people are disappointing me. Can’t you at least say that you and your SO set up a scenario where the woman was tied to the bed and the guy was on top of the wardrobe wearing a Batman costume and fell and knocked himself out and the woman had to dial 911 with her toe?

:wink:

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Fantasized? Nope. I’ve saved my (then) girlfriend from being raped.
I’ve also stepped in front of wives/girlfriends, keeping their SO’s off until the cops arrived. (Hotel work can be loads of fun, you bet.)

I guess the point of this ramble is that reality tends to spoil fantasy - none of these incidents were any fun at all, though I have to admit that seeing those wifebeaters cuffed made me feel good.