Female-Male Sexual Assault In Entertainment

The parallels between how the sexual assault of men by women in entertainment, especially in cinema and television, and in real life are treated are almost exact.  Even when women sexually assault men right in front of the viewer, the acts are often scarcely brought up in person or classified as something other than sexual assault.  Although stereotypes about men and women have led to entertainment in general focusing on male-female assault more than on the inverse kind, both are in plain sight.  Female-male sexual abuse is more common in entertainment, just as there is evidence that it is far more common in real life, than most people are intelligent, observant, or concerned enough to admit.

In a recent example, 2019's Midsommer builds to a climactic rape scene where a pagan woman drugs and has sex with a male character--and other nude women fondle his body as they watch the violation.  After this, he is burned alive, his girlfriend supportive of his death.  She even cries in sadness when she sees him being raped, but only because she thinks he is cheating on her, not because he is being victimized.  No mainstream movie is likely to do this if the roles were reversed, yet some people did not even take the rape scene seriously despite it being a very grim part of the film.

An even more blatant example can be found in Siren, an indie horror film serving as a spin-off of V/H/S.  As with Midsommer, Siren's scenes where the titular creature, a female demonic being named Lilith, rapes Jonah (the male protagonist) are not used for comedic purposes.  The rapes are rightly shown to be traumatic violations of Jonah's will.  The siren is consistently portrayed as a dangerous creature who exploits Jonah, pursues him against his wishes, and has no regard for the consent of her victim.  She seeks to make him a functional sex slave even if she is too lustful (Jonah is engaged, so her attitude towards him later in the film fits the Biblical definition of lust) or ignorant to realize it.

Even Game of Thrones, a show which sometimes has its number of male-female sexual assaults greatly exaggerated, has obvious scenes of female sexual villainy that go unnoticed or unacknowledged by many who complain about the onscreen sexual assaults of women (not that there is anything wrong with showing any kind of abuse).  In one scene, Jon Snow's eventual wildling lover threatens to have him killed if he does not have sex with her to "prove" that he is not a member of the Night's Watch, and Theon Greyjoy is fondled by women when he wakes up disoriented and frightened as a captive of the sadistic Ramsay Bolton.

These cases alone are already enough to refute the claim that there is no portrayal of women sexually assaulting men in mainstream entertainment (Siren is the only example that is not particularly mainstream), but there are still other clear and overlooked examples in cinema, television, gaming, and literature.  While it would always be helpful for entertainment to portray more female villains as cruel to the point of sexually abusing men, since many people are philosophically inept enough to merely be influenced by entertainment, there are plenty of cases that have simply been ignored.  Unfortunately, this is exactly how a large part of Western culture treats the sexual victimization of men by women.