Meaning of self-rape | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of rape where the rapist identifies with or is the same as the victim.
   countable, uncountable
2. Submission to an unwanted sexual act.
   countable, uncountable
3. Behaving contrary to one's own nature, usually as a result of outside pressure.
   broadly, countable, uncountable
4. Masturbation.
   countable, derogatory, often, uncountable
5. Masturbation without self-love.
   countable, uncountable
6. The act of inflicting obscene violence against oneself.
   countable, uncountable
7. Self-destructive activity.
   broadly, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Tubby transvestite star Divine still manages to provide some fine, ghastly moments, including a Christmas tantrum (she fails to get shoes with cha-cha heels), a hilariously gross trampoline act, and, through the magic of cross-cutting, a self-rape, which must be a movie first.”

“Read literally, that "as" means that Stephan renders the oft-depicted scene from Ovid as follows: Leda, the raped, has become the metamorphosed Zeus, the rapist, and is therefore caught up in a hopeless knot of self-rape.”

“It thus follows that if Ryuji and Noboru are two halves of one person, Ryuji's murder is a "self-rape" or self-killing, a "suicide." (It is perhaps in this sense that every murder is a "suicide."”

“Well, not docile per sai^([sic]), but without a constant urge, or at least an appropriate way for 1million male clones to relieve their tension without resorting to self-rape, er clone-rape... nevermind.”

“For a start, it feminizes Tarquin by drawing on the conventional gendering of the human soul as female (Donne's 'Batter my heart . . .' offers an obvious but interesting comparison), and implies that his physical assault on Lucrece has both offended against his own body and contaminated, almost violated, his spiritual and 'female' self. Rape has almost been self-rape.”

“The poem's shocking conclusion (envisioning self-rape) benefits from an analysis of the unconscious that Marta Lamas and Nelly Richard highlight.”

“If I forced myself to let myself be made love to against my inclination I'd hang myself for a rapist. There is self-rape, isn't there?”

“This ever-ready willingness not only to be raped but to like it too, is of course the wet-dream ideal of womanhood — that is to say, of all other women but one's own — remarked upon bitterly in Ruth Hersch- berger's Adam's Rib (1948) chap. 3, "Is Rape A Myth?" It represents a fantasy escape by men from the rigorous female chastity demanded by patriarchy. These jokes of female self-rape, by 'mistake,' may be lumped with the endless novelistic tales of adultery written by men in which the woman is always at fault.”

“Seduction of a male is here a metaphor for self-willed corruption, better described as self-rape; it carries with it all the sneaking dubieties of suicide, which happens to be an inherited tendency of Jude Fawley. Rape is violent intrusion, a kind of murder; enticement requires self-violation and is therefore akin to suicide.”

“Teens can be made to feel that their "no" sounded like a coy "yes." In all these cases, the victim is reacting with self-blame. This is anger turned inward; this is self-rape.”

“Pretending to be hot bears a distinct resemblance to self-rape, but it's a rape accompanied by boredom instead of fear.”

“It is the women who, suffering a kind of self-rape (they consent to be violated?), are victims of evil and, in the play's terms, carriers of it too, revulsed and yet intimate with corruption, while the Knights – for all their blustery self-exculpation –are merely a murdering machine.”

“This rhetorical reversal whereby rape becomes self-rape made some resisting suffragettes feel that to write about their experience of forcible feeding at all was to do themselves violence on top of that which had already been done to them.”

“As a result of societal pressure, Williams engaged in unwanted sexual intercourse when she felt no sexual desire, an act she describes as "self-rape."”

“Only when he desists from his self-rape and gives his animal side its head, no matter how "unnatural" its aspirations, can he finally transcend it and grow into a human being.”

“Another parliamentarian, Gabi Potthast, agreed that the situation is destructive. To go into patriarchal politics and adapt to their ways is self-rape.”

“Thus, a first generation woman member of parliament for the Greens reported that she needed regular breaks from an atmosphere which she described as self-rape and in which she could only function by shutting out all emotions or personal expectations and functioning like an automaton (Spretnak and Capra 1985: 142).”

“If there is any way in which Lyutov is punishing or hurting himself, it is in forcing himself to act completely antithetically to his own nature. If one must search for a dramatic metaphor, the action is more self-rape than self-mutilation. Peter Stine calls the killing of the goose "a violation of the soul" (241).”

“The worst part, they agreed, was having to pretend to feelings they didn't have because that's what the Red People expected. "We were a pair of comrades discussing a decade each of self-rape," Donna says, "a pair of prostitutes talking trade."”

“I'm sure in your mind, that pee wee's masturbation was probably self-rape. We should cut off the offending hand. Uh oh, what if he used both?”

“One perspective I heard when growing up was that masturbation amounts to self-rape.”

“In your case, it is self-rape, pure and simple - incestual masturbation.”

“Masturbation undertaken with an inhibition of enjoyment, physical pain, or regrets and remorse is a genital example of self-rape.”

“Masturbation can also be carried out as a self-rape, in which case it becomes doing to oneself what one would like to do to another — an act of aggression, not love.”

“At the moment when Faustus is damned, they don pontifical ornaments to cast him into Hell. Brown monks' robes are worn by the other characters. When Faustus signs Mephisto's pact he divests himself of his vestments in a sort of self-rape.”

“"In New York" she recalls, "I could go out to clubs and get laid. That's unheard-of in Santa Cruz, where they nurture each other and have sex side by side so that no one is on top. I dated a woman there who thought that using a dildo was like committing self-rape."”

“Emblematically, we have been shown martyrdom in an obscene mode, a religious 'dying' which Shakespeare hints, figuratively, is a kind of masturbatory self-rape."”

“My ritual self-rape, the little poop trails I left around in my dresser and in the stable, I was trying to be noticed that something was wrong but all I got was silence.”

“It has been suggested that Lucretia's suicide can be read as analogous to her rape, her stabbing action taking the place of Tarquin's penetration. On Valla's account, this "self-rape" is far more reprehensible, both because it results in Lucretia's death and also because it involves her usurpation of the masculine action of stabbing oneself.”

“The shipping boom the industry had been riding since the prelude to the war collapsed in 1920. As Europe recovered from its self-rape and rebuilt its industries, the demand for American goods and the ships to carry them was greatly curtailed.”

“...as an act of "self-rape" by the "willingly self-conflicting soul that inflicts suffering upon itself, out of pleasure in inflicting suffering" (GM, II, § 18).”

“Perhaps if you put people in shit, they behave like animals. The downtrodden destroying the places they live in is a bit like self-rape, isn't it?”

“It seemed to me that there was a wide-open field for playing up all the unfortunate circumstances surrounding physical violence, rape as punishable by law, but also for attacking the crime of spiritual rape, and, finally, the worst of all, self-rape, violence against one's own self.”

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