There are some women who like rape fantasies, or they would not have been used as much as they have been used in erotica or older romance stories. Of course in those stories - and presumably most of the private fantasies - the "rapist" is usually the man the female protagonist really wants to have sex with, but pretends not to for whatever reason, not some random dude she doesn't know or truly dislikes. They have been mostly dropped now unless you count something like 50 Shades of Grey where the woman sort of gives consent beforehand, I think (never read it or watched the movie, not my thing), but pretty much the same fantasy still. (I used to read those older romance stories when I was a teenager...)
And my guess is that a lot of those fans of something like Handmaid's Tale really do get off with that idea even if they may not be willing to admit it to even themselves, as that image kind of gives them the excuse to submit to a masculine if "bad boy" type of man, if only in their imagination, when they have been taught that they never should and should prefer more "soy boy" types as mates. And that may be part of the reason for the popularity of that story even if it is a dystopia, and the author probably didn't mean for that to happen.
Or maybe she did, being knowledgeable enough of modern women to know that the sex fantasy part would sell, especially clothed in that "safe" feminist disguise so that those women could publicly admit to being fans without anybody figuring out that maybe it's more due to the smut part than anything else even if the smut is in the reader's mind rather than anything clearly described in the text.
There are some women who like rape fantasies, or they would not have been used as much as they have been used in erotica or older romance stories. Of course in those stories - and presumably most of the private fantasies - the "rapist" is usually the man the female protagonist really wants to have sex with, but pretends not to for whatever reason, not some random dude she doesn't know or truly dislikes. They have been mostly dropped now unless you count something like 50 Shades of Grey where the woman sort of gives consent beforehand, I think (never read it or watched the movie, not my thing), but pretty much the same fantasy still. (I used to read those older romance stories when I was a teenager...)
And my guess is that a lot of those fans of something like Handmaid's Tale really do get off with that idea even if they may not be willing to admit it to even themselves, as that image kind of gives them the excuse to submit to a masculine man, if only in their imagination, when they have been taught that they never should and should prefer more feminine types as mates. And that may be part of the reason for the popularity of that story even if it is a dystopia, and the author probably didn't mean for that to happen.
Or maybe she did, being knowledgeable enough of modern women to know that the sex fantasy part would sell, especially clothed in that "safe" feminist disguise so that those women could publicly admit to being fans without anybody figuring out that maybe it's more due to the smut part than anything else even if the smut is in the reader's mind rather than anything clearly described in the text.
There are some women who like rape fantasies, or they would not have been used as much as they have been used in erotica or older romance stories. Of course in those stories - and presumably most of the private fantasies - the "rapist" is usually the man the female protagonist really wants to have sex with, but pretends not to for whatever reason, not some random dude she doesn't know or truly dislikes. They have been mostly dropped now unless you count something like 50 Shades of Grey where the woman sort of gives consent beforehand, I think (never read it or watched the movie, not my thing), but pretty much the same fantasy still. (I used to read those older romance stories when I was a teenager...)
And my guess is that a lot of those fans of something like Handmaid's Tale really do get off with that idea even if they may not be willing to admit it to even themselves, as that image kind of gives them the excuse to submit to a masculine man, if only in their imagination, when they have been taught that they never should and should prefer more feminine types as mates. And that may be part of the reason for the popularity of that story even if it is a dystopia, and the author probably didn't mean for that to happen.
Or maybe she did, being knowledgeable enough of modern women to know that the sex fantasy part would sell, especially clothed in that "safe" feminist disguise so that those women could publicly admit to being fans without anybody figuring out that maybe it's more due to the smut part than anything else.
There are some women who like rape fantasies, or they would not have been used as much as they have been used in erotica or older romance stories. Of course in those stories - and presumably most of the private fantasies - the "rapist" is usually the man the female protagonist really wants to have sex with, but pretends not to for whatever reason, not some random dude she doesn't know or truly dislikes. They have been mostly dropped now unless you count something like 50 Shades of Grey where the woman sort of gives consent beforehand, I think (never read it or watched the movie, not my thing), but pretty much the same fantasy still. (I used to read those older romance stories when I was a teenager...)
And my guess is that a lot of those fans of something like Handmaid's Tale really do get off with that idea even if they may not be willing to admit it to even themselves, as that image kind of gives them the excuse to submit to a masculine man, if only in their imagination, when they have been taught that they never should and should prefer more feminine types as mates. And that may be part of the reason for the popularity of that story even if it is a dystopia, and the author probably didn't mean for that to happen.
Or maybe she did, being knowledgeable enough of modern women to know that the sex fantasy part would sell, especially clothed in that "safe" feminist disguise so that those women could publicly admit to being fans without anybody figuring out that maybe it's more to the smut part than anything else.
There are some women who like rape fantasies, or they would not have been used as much as they have been used in erotica or older romance stories. Of course in those stories - and the private fantasies - the "rapist" is usually the man the female protagonist really wants to have sex with, but pretends not to for whatever reason, not some random dude she doesn't know or truly dislikes. They have been mostly dropped now unless you count something like 50 Shades of Grey where the woman sort of gives consent beforehand, I think (never read it or watched the movie, not my thing), but pretty much the same fantasy still. (I used to read those older romance stories when I was a teenager...)
And my guess is that a lot of those fans of something like Handmaid's Tale really do get off with that idea even if they may not be willing to admit it to even themselves, as that image kind of gives them the excuse to submit to a masculine man, if only in their imagination, when they have been taught that they never should and should prefer more feminine types as mates. And that may be part of the reason for the popularity of that story even if it is a dystopia, and the author probably didn't mean for that to happen.
Or maybe she did, being knowledgeable enough of modern women to know that the sex fantasy part would sell, especially clothed in that "safe" feminist disguise so that those women could publicly admit to being fans without anybody figuring out that maybe it's more to the smut part than anything else.