Rape pornography

Subgenre of pornography

Rape

Types

* Acquaintance rape
* Campus rape
* Child sexual abuse
* Corrective rape
* LGBT victims
* Cybersex trafficking
* Drug-facilitated rape
* Date rape
* Gang rape
* Genocidal rape
* Gray rape
* Live streaming rape
* Marital rape
* Prison rape
* Rape chant
* Serial rape
* Sexual abuse
* Sexual assault
* Statutory rape
* Unacknowledged rape
* Rape by deception

Effects and motivations

* Effects and aftermath
* Factors involved
* Pregnancy from rape
* Rape crisis movement
* Rape trauma syndrome
* Causes
* Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims
* Weinstein effect
* Secondary victimisation
* Sociobiological theories
* Rape culture

By country

* Afghanistan
* Belgium
* China
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Egypt
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* India
* Pakistan
* Papua New Guinea
* Philippines
* Saudi Arabia
* South Africa
* Sweden
* United Kingdom
* United States

During conflicts

* Armenian genocide
* World War II
* Eastern Front
* Italian campaign
* Imperial Japan
* Occupation of Germany / Japan / Poland / Manchuria
* Liberation of France / Serbia
* Kashmir conflict
* Algerian War
* Vietnam War
* Sri Lankan civil war
* Bangladesh Liberation War
* Sierra Leone Civil War
* Bosnian War
* Rwandan genocide
* Congo Wars
* Darfur genocide
* ISIL
* Syrian civil war
* Tigray war
* Russian invasion of Ukraine
* Gaza war
* By Israel
* By Palestinians

Laws

* Marital rape laws by country
* Marry-your-rapist law
* Rape shield law
* False accusation of rape
* Rape investigation
* Rape kit
* Sexual consent in law
* In Islamic law

See also

* Anti-rape movement
* Bodily integrity
* Date rape drug
* Sexual violence statistics
* History of rape
* Military sexual trauma
* Preventive measures
* Rape by gender
* Rape of males
* Anti-rape device
* Rape crisis centre
* Rape myth
* Rape pornography
* Rape and revenge films
* Rape fantasy
* Rape schedule
* Rape statistics
* Rape threat
* Sex and the law
* Sex trafficking
* Sexual harassment
* Sexual predator
* Sexual trauma therapy
* Sexual violence

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Rape pornography is a subgenre of pornography involving the description or depiction of rape. Such pornography either involves simulated rape, wherein sexually consenting adults feign rape, or it involves actual rape. Victims of actual rape may be coerced to feign consent such that the pornography produced deceptively appears as simulated rape or non-rape pornography. The depiction of rape in non-pornographic media is not considered rape pornography. Simulated scenes of rape and other forms of sexual violence have appeared in mainstream cinema, including rape and revenge films, almost since its advent.[1]

The legality of simulated rape pornography varies across legal jurisdictions. It is controversial because of the argument that it encourages people to commit rape. However, studies of the effects of pornography depicting sexual violence produce conflicting results.[2] The creation of real rape pornography is a sex crime in countries where rape is illegal. Real rape pornography, including statutory rape in child pornography, is created for profit and other reasons.[3] Rape pornography, as well as revenge porn and other similar subgenres depicting violence, has been associated with rape culture.[4][5][6]

## Legality

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### United Kingdom

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The possession of rape pornography is illegal in Scotland, England and Wales.

In Scotland, the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 criminalised possession of "extreme" pornography. This included depictions of rape, and "other non-consensual penetrative sexual activity, whether violent or otherwise", including those involving consenting adults and images that were faked.[7] The maximum penalty is an unlimited fine and 3 years imprisonment.[8] The law is not often used, and it resulted in only one prosecution during the first four years that it was in force.[9]

In England and Wales, it took another five years before pornography which depicts rape (including simulations involving consenting adults) was made illegal in England and Wales, bringing the law into line with that of Scotland. Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 had already criminalised possession of "extreme pornography" but it did not explicitly specify depictions of rape.[10] At that time it was thought that the sale of rape pornography might already be illegal in England and Wales as a result of the Obscene Publications Act 1959, but the ruling in R v Peacock in January 2012 demonstrated that this was not the case. The introduction of a new law was first announced in 2013 by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron.[11] In a speech to the NSPCC he stated that pornography that depicts simulated rape "normalise(s) sexual violence against women", although the Ministry of Justice criminal policy unit had previously stated that "we have no evidence to show that the creation of staged rape images involves any harm to the participants or causes harm to society at large".[12]

In February 2015, Section 16 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 amended the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 to criminalise the possession of pornographic imagery depicting acts of rape. The law only applies to consensual, simulated, fantasy material. The possession of an image capturing an actual rape, for example CCTV footage, is not illegal; but a "make believe" image created by and for consenting adults is open to prosecution.[12] In January 2014 sexual freedom campaign groups criticised Section 16 as being poorly defined and liable to criminalise a wider range of material than originally suggested.[13] However, in April 2014 the BBFC's presentation to Parliament suggested that the proposed legislation would not cover "clearly fictional depictions of rape and other sexual violence in which participants are clearly actors, acting to a script".[14]

### Germany

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In Germany, the distribution of pornography featuring real or faked rape is illegal.[15]

### United States

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There are few practical legal restrictions on rape pornography in the United States. Law enforcement agencies concentrate on examples where they believe a crime has been committed in the production. "Fantasy" rape pornography depicting rape simulations involving consenting adults are not a priority for the police.[16]

In response to the verdict of the People v. Turner sexual assault case, xHamster instituted a "Brock Turner rule", which banned videos involving rape, including those involving sex with an unconscious or hypnotised partner.[17]

## Real rape cases

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### Non-internet

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American porn actress Linda Lovelace wrote in her autobiography, Ordeal, that she was coerced and raped in pornographic films in the 1970s.[18]

### Internet

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Main article: Internet pornography

Internet policing with respect to investigating actual crime has been made increasingly difficult by rape pornography websites operating anonymously, ignoring ICANN regulations and providing false information for the Whois database.[16]

From 2009 to 2020, the pornographic company GirlsDoPorn created hundreds of pornographic videos in which the women depicted were manipulated, coerced, lied to, given marijuana or other drugs or physically forced to have sex, according to the accounts of victims and material from a lawsuit against the company.[19][20][21][22] Six people involved in the website were charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion in November 2019.[21] Official videos from the company were viewed over a billion times, including a paid subscription service on its website, and an estimated 680 million views on the tube site Pornhub, where the official channel was among the site's top 20 most viewed. Pirated copies of the videos were also viewed hundreds of millions of times.[20][23][24] According to a lawsuit, the videos could still be found on mainstream pornography websites up to at least December 2020.[25]

Japanese women were forced to be in pornographic videos in the 2010s.[26]

Real rape videos of women and girls were filmed in the Doctor's Room and Nth Room cases in South Korea in late 2010s and early 2020s.[27][28][29][30]

Videos showing real rape have been hosted on popular pornographic video sharing and pornography websites.[31][32] These websites have been criticized by petitioners.[33][34]

#### Cybersex trafficking

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Main article: Cybersex trafficking

Victims of cybersex trafficking have been forced into live streaming rape pornography,[35][36][37] which can be recorded and later sold. They are raped by traffickers in front of a webcam or forced to perform sex acts on themselves or other victims. The traffickers film and broadcast the sex crimes in real time. Victims are frequently forced to watch the paying consumers on shared screens and follow their orders. It occurs in locations, commonly referred to as ‘cybersex dens,’ that can be in homes, hotels, offices, internet cafes, and other businesses.[38]

## References

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1. ^ Simpson, Clare (November 15, 2013). "10 Controversial Films With Scenes Of Explicit Sexual Violence". WhatCulture. Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
2. ^ "Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan". Pacific Center for Sex and Society. University of Hawaii. 1999. Archived from the original on 2002-06-22.
3. ^ "Website selling 'real' rape and child pornography videos shut down after arrest in Netherlands, Justice Department says". The Washington Post. March 12, 2020.
4. ^ Hald, Gert Martin; Malamuth, Neil M.; Yuen, Carlin (1 January 2010). "Pornography and attitudes supporting violence against women: revisiting the relationship in nonexperimental studies". Aggressive Behavior. 36 (1): 14–20\. doi:10.1002/ab.20328. ISSN 1098-2337. PMID 19862768.
5. ^ Willis, Ellen (1993). "Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography". New York Law School Law Review. 38: 351. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
6. ^ Odem, Mary E.; Clay-Warner, Jody (1998). Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 111\. ISBN 978-0-8420-2599-7.
7. ^ "Revitalising Justice – Proposals To Modernise And Improve The Criminal Justice System". Scotland.gov.uk. 2008-09-24. Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
8. ^ "Information on the new offence of Possession of Extreme Pornographic Images" (PDF). The Scottish Government. 1 Mar 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
9. ^ Dan Bunting (22 April 2014). "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill – new criminal offences". Halsbury's Law Exchange.
10. ^ "Crackdown on violent porn". The Scotsman. Johnston Publishing. 2006-08-31.
11. ^ "Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces". BBC News. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
12. ^ a b Myles Jackman (13 August 2013). "Government to "get to grips" with Rape-Porn". Myles Jackman. Archived from the original on 26 November 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
13. ^ Jerry Barnett (20 February 2014). "Letter to MPs on Criminalising "Rape Porn"". Sex & Censorship.
14. ^ Ben Yates (4 April 2014). "UK Censors Approve Unrealistic Rape Porn". Sex and Censorship. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.
15. ^ "German Criminal Code". Gesetze-im-internet.de. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
16. ^ a b Craig Timberg (6 December 2013). "How violent porn site operators disappear behind Internet privacy protections". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
17. ^ Russon, Mary-Ann (14 June 2016). "xHamster to crack down on rape porn, adopts 'Brock Turner Rule'". International Business Times.
18. ^ MacKinnon, Catherine A. (2006). Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
19. ^ Hargrove, Dorian; Payton, Mari; Jones, Tom (February 8, 2019). "Uncovering A San Diego Porn Scheme: Deception, Humiliation Follow Online Ads". NBC 7 San Diego. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
20. ^ a b Hargrove, Dorian (January 4, 2017). "San Diego's porn studios". San Diego Reader. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
21. ^ a b Turner, Gustavo (October 17, 2019). "Here's What You Need to Know About the GirlsDoPorn Case". XBIZ. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
22. ^ Lee, Timothy B. (October 3, 2019). "GirlsDoPorn, on trial for fraud, still isn't leveling with new models". Ars Technica. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
23. ^ Savage, Jared (October 19, 2019). "Childhood friends from Christchurch Michael James Pratt and Matthew Isaac Wolfe face FBI sex trafficking charges over GirlsDoPorn website". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
24. ^ Valens, Ana (October 15, 2019). "Pornhub pulls Girls Do Porn videos amid sex trafficking charges". The Daily Dot. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
25. ^ Maiberg, Emanuel; Cole, Samantha (December 17, 2020). "Tube Sites Are Scrubbing Girls Do Porn Videos After Pornhub Lawsuit". Vice. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
26. ^ "'It was like rape': Women in Japan tricked into pornography". ABC News. 10 June 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
27. ^ Choe Sang-Hun (March 25, 2020). "Suspect Held in South Korean Crackdown on Sexually Explicit Videos". The New York Times. SEOUL, South Korea.
28. ^ Laura Bicker (25 March 2020). "Cho Ju-bin: South Korea chatroom sex abuse suspect named after outcry". BBC News.
29. ^ Min Joo Kim (March 25, 2020). "South Korea identifies suspected leader of sexual blackmail ring after uproar". The Washington Post. Seoul.
30. ^ SHIN Sua (신수아) (Mar 20, 2020). "Distributing pornography by telegram ... 'Dr. Bang' was caught". MBC News (in Korean).
31. ^ "I was raped at 14, and the video ended up on a porn site". BBC News. 10 February 2020.
32. ^ "Call for credit card freeze on porn sites". BBC News. May 8, 2020.
33. ^ Isaacs, Kate (March 9, 2020). "Pornhub needs to change – or shut down". The Guardian. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
34. ^ Dawson, Tyler (May 3, 2020). "Anti-porn activists come after Montreal-based Pornhub". National Post.
35. ^ "Philippine children exploited in billion-dollar webcam paedophilia industry". The Sydney Morning Herald. July 8, 2014.
36. ^ "IJM Seeks to End Cybersex Trafficking of Children and #RestartFreedom this Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday". PR Newswire. November 28, 2016.
37. ^ "Cybersex Trafficking". IJM. 2020.
38. ^ "Cyber-sex trafficking: A 21st century scourge". CNN. July 18, 2013.

## Further reading

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* Bridges, Ana J. (October 2019). "Chapter 7: Pornography and Sexual Assault". In O'Donohue, Yvonne; William T., Paul A. (eds.). Handbook of Sexual Assault and Sexual Assault Prevention. Routledge. pp. 129–149\. ISBN 978-3030236441.
* Diamond, Milton (October 2009). "Pornography, public acceptance and sex related crime: A review". International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 32 (5): 304–314\. doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2009.06.004. PMID 19665229. Abstract.
* Diamond, Milton & Uchiyama, Ayako (1999). "Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan". International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 22 (1): 1–22\. doi:10.1016/s0160-2527(98)00035-1. PMID 10086287. Abstract.
* Makin, David A.; Morczek, Amber L. (June 2015). "The dark side of internet searches: a macro level assessment of rape culture". International Journal of Cyber Criminology. 9 (1): 1–23. Abstract.
* Makin, David A. & Morczek, Amber L. (February 2015). "X Views and Counting: Interest in Rape-Oriented Pornography as Gendered Microaggression". Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 25 (3): 244–257. Abstract.
* Malamuth, Neal M. (2014). Pornography and Sexual Aggression. Elsevier Science. ISBN 9781483295794.
* Mowlabocus, Sharif & Wood, Rachel (September 2015). "Introduction: audiences and consumers of porn". Porn Studies. 2 (3): 118–122\. doi:10.1080/23268743.2015.1056465. Abstract.
* Palermo, Alisia M. & Dadgardoust, Laleh (May 2019). "Examining the role of pornography and rape supportive cognitions in lone and multiple perpetrator rape proclivity". Journal of Sexual Aggression. 31 (12): 2131–2155. Abstract.
* Purcell, Natalie (2012). Violence and the Pornographic Imaginary: The Politics of Sex, Gender, and Aggression in Hardcore Pornography. Routledge. ISBN 9780415523127.

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Pornography

Pornography|

| Types|

* Amateur
* Cartoon
* Hentai
* Tijuana bible
* Child
* Erotica
* Simulated
* Deepfake
* Feminist
* Hardcore
* Internet
* Mobile
* Revenge
* Sexting
* Softcore

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Genres|

* Alt
* Bondage
* Clopping
* Convent
* Ethnic
* Gang bang
* Gonzo
* Incest
* MILF
* Mormon
* Panda
* Rape
* Reality
* Sissy hypno
* Tentacle
* LGBTQ:
* Lesbian
* erotica
* pornography
* Gay
* Bisexual
* Transgender
* Queer
* Women's
* Yiffing
* Zoophilic

Related|

* History
* Film actor

Organizations|

* Adult Film Association of America
* Critics Adult Film Association
* Fans of X-Rated Entertainment
* Free Speech Coalition
* X-Rated Critics Organization
* List of pornography companies
* List of pornographic film studios
* Fuck for Forest

Opposition to
pornography|

| Movements|

* Anti-pornography movement in the United Kingdom
* Anti-pornography movement in the United States
* Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance

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Organizations|

* Churchmen's Committee for Decent Publications
* Feminists Fighting Pornography
* Fight the New Drug
* The Marriage Vow
* No More Page 3
* Stop Bild Sexism
* Stop Child Trafficking Now
* Stop Porn Culture
* Women Against Pornography
* Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media
* XXXchurch.com

Overuse|

* Accountability software
* Employee monitoring software
* Internet filter
* NoFap
* Parental controls

Views|

* Feminist
* Sex-positive feminist
* Religious
* Opposition

Media|

* Audio
* Film
* Cartoon
* Parody
* Generative AI pornography
* Magazines
* List
* Page 3
* Video games
* Eroge

Possible effects|

* Pornography addiction
* STDs

People|

* British performers
* Gay male performers
* Pornographic actors who appeared in mainstream films
* Mainstream actors who have appeared in pornographic films
* Film directors
* List of hentai creators

Events|

* Adultcon
* AVN Adult Entertainment Expo
* Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival
* Brussels International Festival of Eroticism
* Exotic Erotic Ball
* Exxxotica Expo
* HUMP!
* Porn Sunday

Miscellaneous|

* Adult movie theater
* Blue Movie
* Golden Age
* Not safe for work
* Pornification
* Pornotopia
* R18 certificate
* Rule 34
* Sex shop
* Sexualization
* X rating

See also|

* Erotica
* Art
* Comics
* Film
* Literature
* Photography
* Women's
* Human female sexuality
* Human male sexuality
* Human sexual activity
* Nudity
* Overwatch and pornography
* Pokémon and pornography
* Ribaldry
* Right to sexuality
* Sex-positive feminism
* Sex-positive movement
* Sexual content
* Sexual and reproductive health and rights
* Sexual repression
* Sexual revolution
* Stanley v. Georgia
* Imagery of nude celebrities
* sex tape

* Category
* Erotica and pornography portal
* Human sexuality portal

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Sexual abuse

Forms|

* Bride kidnapping
* Child
* Child-on-child
* Child exploitation
* Child pornography
* in primary and secondary schools
* Child prostitution
* Child sex tourism
* Cybersex trafficking
* Forced prostitution
* Genital modification and mutilation
* Money marriage
* Rape
* Campus
* Date
* Gray
* Marital
* Prison
* By proxy
* Statutory
* Of males
* Raptio
* Revenge porn
* Sex trafficking
* Sexual assault
* Sexual bullying
* Sexual grooming
* Sexual harassment
* in education
* in education in the United States
* in the military
* Sexual misconduct
* Sexual predator
* Sexual slavery
* Sexual violence
* Statistics
* War

Sociological
theories|

* Aggression
* Causes of sexual violence
* Effects and aftermath of rape
* Misandry
* Misogyny
* Rape culture
* Rape trauma syndrome
* Sociobiological theories of rape
* Victim blaming

Laws|

* Laws regarding child sexual abuse
* Laws regarding rape
* Sexually violent predator laws

Related topics|

* Child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome
* False allegation of child sexual abuse

* Law portal

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Sexual ethics

Human sexuality|

* Adolescent sexuality
* Rainbow party
* Adultery
* Education
* Fetishism
* Incest
* law
* Infidelity
* Miscegenation
* Obesity and sexuality
* Objectification
* Orientation
* Pornography
* gay
* law
* lesbian
* women's
* Pregnancy
* Abortion
* Prostitution
* law
* Reproductive rights
* Right to sexuality
* Sex-positive feminism
* Sex-positive movement
* Sex workers' rights
* Survival sex

Child sexuality|

* Child marriage
* Child pornography
* law
* Child prostitution
* Child sex tourism

Sexual abuse|

* Child-on-child sexual abuse
* Child sexual abuse
* law
* Cybersex trafficking
* Harassment
* Rape
* law
* Sex trafficking
* Sexual slavery

Age of consent (reform)|

* Africa
* Asia
* Europe
* North America
* United States
* Mexico
* Oceania
* South America

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Violence against women

Issues|

* Abuse during childbirth
* Acid attack
* Breast ironing
* Bride burning
* Bride buying
* Child marriage
* Dating abuse
* Domestic violence
* outline
* management
* and pregnancy
* Dowry death
* Eve teasing
* Honor killing
* Female genital mutilation
* Gishiri cutting
* Infibulation
* Husband stitch
* Female infanticide
* Femicide
* Foot binding
* Force-feeding
* Forced abortion
* Forced marriage
* Forced pregnancy
* Forced prostitution
* Human trafficking
* Misogyny
* Murder of pregnant women
* Raptio
* Sati
* Sharia
* Islamic religious police
* Guidance Patrol
* Kano State Hisbah Corps
* Polisi Syariat Islam
* Violence against prostitutes

Sexual assault, rape|

* Sexual assault
* Campus sexual assault
* Mass sexual assault
* Rape
* and pregnancy
* laws
* Types of rape
* by deception
* corrective
* date
* gang
* genocidal
* halala
* in war
* marital
* prison
* statutory
* Cybersex trafficking
* Sex trafficking
* Sexual slavery
* Sexual violence

Related topics|

* Istanbul Convention
* Prosecution of gender-targeted crimes
* November 25th
* February 6th
* Serial rapist

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