Madame Manga
Really Really Experienced
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- Aug 28, 2002
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As a female erotic writer, I'd like to say something about rape stories, or better, "ravishment fantasy". I used to hate them. Hate, hate, hate them! I couldn't read anything with the slightest hint of non-consent. It made me physically sick. This was coupled with a genuine fear of rape that crippled me in real life. I wrote erotica, yeah, but it was purged of anything of that kind.
Then out of the blue I started having those "ravishment fantasies" and writing stories I was ashamed to show around. I was disgusted at myself. How could I like that stuff? How could I be writing it? I looked online and discovered that other women liked this stuff too. Maybe I wasn't crazy, or if I was, I had company. So I wrote some more of that kind of thing and posted it, and got a good response. Something worked itself loose, and suddenly I could write with much more freedom and power than I had ever been able to do before.
Even better, because instead of hiding from those thoughts I took control of them and made them mine, I lost my fears. Both in a literary context and in real life. That's what it's all about, IMO. Suppressed fantasies eat at you and become even more powerful and corrosive in concealment. Expressed fantasies are YOURS--you own them, and you can use them consciously for any purpose.
Ravishment stories aren't about being abused. They are about women taking control of a fantasy of complete loss of control. There's tremendous erotic power in that, IMO. I understand people who can't stand stories like that, and I would never spring that stuff on them without warning. I've been there--though NOT in real life, I hasten to add. The response of a woman who has actually been raped or abused is obviously entirely up to her. Some survivors DO like non-consent--it's the taking control of the scene thing. Some survivors hate it just as much as I used to do.
Basically, because of that personal turn-around, I try very hard not to tell anyone what he or she should or shouldn't like. You can never know the genuine psychological reason for someone else's turn-ons, and often not even for your own.
MM
Then out of the blue I started having those "ravishment fantasies" and writing stories I was ashamed to show around. I was disgusted at myself. How could I like that stuff? How could I be writing it? I looked online and discovered that other women liked this stuff too. Maybe I wasn't crazy, or if I was, I had company. So I wrote some more of that kind of thing and posted it, and got a good response. Something worked itself loose, and suddenly I could write with much more freedom and power than I had ever been able to do before.
Even better, because instead of hiding from those thoughts I took control of them and made them mine, I lost my fears. Both in a literary context and in real life. That's what it's all about, IMO. Suppressed fantasies eat at you and become even more powerful and corrosive in concealment. Expressed fantasies are YOURS--you own them, and you can use them consciously for any purpose.
Ravishment stories aren't about being abused. They are about women taking control of a fantasy of complete loss of control. There's tremendous erotic power in that, IMO. I understand people who can't stand stories like that, and I would never spring that stuff on them without warning. I've been there--though NOT in real life, I hasten to add. The response of a woman who has actually been raped or abused is obviously entirely up to her. Some survivors DO like non-consent--it's the taking control of the scene thing. Some survivors hate it just as much as I used to do.
Basically, because of that personal turn-around, I try very hard not to tell anyone what he or she should or shouldn't like. You can never know the genuine psychological reason for someone else's turn-ons, and often not even for your own.
MM
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