http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/filmmaker-josh-lawson-breaks-the-final-taboo-in-sex-comedy-the-little-death-20140923-10kel0.html
And then I thought this:
I'm having trouble with the phrases "rape" and "fantasy" being put together and there's a really simple reason why. Because there is, to me at least, no such thing. I'm actually finding this rather difficult to write because it's glaringly obvious that the definition of rape is rarely seen without the phrase consent, or more accurately, lack there of. Fantasy, in this context, is synonymous with desire - desire, like something you want. We need to move far, far away using a crime, which I plan to personally petition to be punishable by death, as a short cut to describing what we want. Let me let you in on a little something ladies, you do not want to be raped. You don't to be throwing that word around either, like it's something a little bit naughty and not an ugly reflection of the hideous world that we live in. I get it, I too am familiar with the Divinyls but rape is so far away from rough role playing with a trusted partner. What you're actually after is a world away from rape and we need to find a new word. And if the English language doesn't have that word, we'll make one up. And if we cannot find a suitable word you'll have to take the long way around. So when someone asks you about your dirty personal fantasy, you respond with a lengthy and semi-complicated answer, with hand gestures and possibly diagrams because your sexuality cannot be accurately reflected in a one word answer and that word is certainly not rape.
Forgive me, I don't often make it my business to tell other people what they want. I just can't face living in a world that has crafted women into believing they genuinely want to be held down and violently assaulted.
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