I understand. However, I think there's much more mileage in a gay Will Roberts on DOOL than a male rape on DOOL.

I think we're clearly passed the Will becoming gay because of the rape point. You've made your point. I'm talking about male rape in general. The obvious candidate would be Will. And if they go this route, maybe they shouldn't make Will gay, just make him question his sexuality.

Why should Will be the "obvious" candidate for male rape because he's gay? That makes NO sense to me.

That's like saying gays need to be raped.

That's like saying gays need to be raped.

WTF????? How does that even compare to what I said? LOL. That totally just came out of left field.

I think Will is a candidate because the storyline would be more moving if the victimized character were younger. Older viewers would feel compassion for the boy as if he were their son or grandson. Younger viewers would see a storyline that could potentially happen to them. It would draw attention to the subject. Plus, the aftermath of the rape would just add to Will's already screwed up life, which would give the character more conflict to deal with.

Hey Bree

I agree but for a different reason.

I just think it's been done to death! ATWT, Passions, AMC and OLTL have all done the gay storylines.

DAYS isn't a "social issue" type of show.

This is true, but we now have Hogan Sheffer.

I don't know, it's controversial for sure. I don't want a rape scene but Will coming out is needed.

Adding Father Janssen could be good, but we hear about that all the time in the news.

Pure rumor.

That story will never happen.

I mean please...Who is going to want to tune into that?

"Hey mom...did you see Days today? I missed it...what's going on with Will's manrape story?"

Whatever.

Leave that stuff for L&O: Sex Crimes.

Besides...who would rape Will with that hair of his anyways?

It is so ugly!

If his hair gets any more uglier I will die from organ failure!

Like there isn't one person in that kids life that has said

"Hey man...you look a mess with that hair."

That kid must be the mayor of nappyhead town. I swear.

Good Lord!

From ever part of my soul...

I HATE HIS HAIR!

Oww...my liver hurts now...

Besides...who would rape Will with that hair of his anyways?

It is so ugly!

If his hair gets any more uglier I will die from organ failure!

Like there isn't one person in that kids life that has said

"Hey man...you look a mess with that hair."

That kid must be the mayor of nappyhead town. I swear.

Good Lord!

From ever part of my soul...

I HATE HIS HAIR!

Oww...my liver hurts now...

LMAO!!!! You nailed it Greg. His hair is a mess!

Whatever you believe on male rape storylines, I highly doubt the censors would allow it.

Not in favor of either gay or rape. Last rape on Days I remember was Sami's. Although we have had a lot of sex with unwilling partners, Nicole and Victor which could have been prosecuted and Jennifer and Colin where she pretended. Well then the Billie gets Bo thing. Hmmm more often than I thought now that I think. None of which raised my "I want to watch that" quotient.

But I can't believe no one is against making Will gay on the premise that he "had a mixed up childhood". What's the difference between "my childhood made me gay" or "I'm gay because I was raped". If they want to make him a pedophile then either of those backgrounds would fit. If they want to make a character gay then they need to pick someone from a nice normal background like Eric.

It all goes back to whether homosexuality is caused by nature or nuture.

The last rape was Bo. Before that, Nicole and before that... Jan.

Bo had consensual sex with Billie. He just thought it was Hope. He wasn't forced.

On the previous thread which mentioned this male rape storyline, I hypothesized if the rumor was true, the earliesst that this story would air was February sweeps. Thinking about it more and if teen Will was the victim of the male rape, then May sweeps would the earliest that this rumored storyline would air IMHO. You would have to think about this from a network honcho viewpoint. If you were a producer, would you want to tell a major story revolving around a teen in the middle of winter when the young demo you are trying to attract is still in school OR would you rather have the fallout from the storyline occur in the summer, when most soaps are trying to compete with each other in getting a younger audience?

Plus, this storyline would go against the grain of typical summer storylines involving teens that soaps usually do around then. The thinking might be that it would set Days apart from the rest of soaps by having this serious storyline during the summer....

It's clear that Hogie has big things in store for Will. Roman and Kate last week and then Roman and Marlena this week talked about their concern for Will. Then we had Will providing words of wisdom on Friday's show. I saw on a lot of message boards that people were rooting for Will for standing up for his mother/family against Kate and then EJ. IMHO, Hogie's going in a new direction with Will and making Will his own person.

Gerse was ok as Will if Will was only playing a prop for the Lumi relationship but I think that we're going to need a new Will, if Hogie continues to take Will in a more complex direction....

On the previous thread which mentioned this male rape storyline, I hypothesized if the rumor was true, the earliesst that this story would air was February sweeps. Thinking about it more and if teen Will was the victim of the male rape, then May sweeps would the earliest that this rumored storyline would air IMHO. You would have to think about this from a network honcho viewpoint. If you were a producer, would you want to tell a major story revolving around a teen in the middle of winter when the young demo you are trying to attract is still in school OR would you rather have the fallout from the storyline occur in the summer, when most soaps are trying to compete with each other in getting a younger audience?

Plus, this storyline would go against the grain of typical summer storylines involving teens that soaps usually do around then. The thinking might be that it would set Days apart from the rest of soaps by having this serious storyline during the summer....

It's clear that Hogie has big things in store for Will. Roman and Kate last week and then Roman and Marlena this week talked about their concern for Will. Then we had Will providing words of wisdom on Friday's show. I saw on a lot of message boards that people were rooting for Will for standing up for his mother/family against Kate and then EJ. IMHO, Hogie's going in a new direction with Will and making Will his own person.

Gerse was ok as Will if Will was only playing a prop for the Lumi relationship but I think that we're going to need a new Will, if Hogie continues to take Will in a more complex direction....

Great post ademption. There is definitely a reason we have different characters concerned about Will. If for nothing else, having Will turn out to be gay because of his mother and father's dysfuntional relationship would be enough for me to want the story.

However, it just can't be Gerse in the role. I just think with ratings as they are right now, Sheffer is going to have to turn it up a couple of notches.

Yeah great posts ademption and Daysgal. Something is definitely going on where Will is concerned and I have noticed him being more of his own person and not on the sidelines. There has been a great made about how what is happening is affecting Will so I think Hogan is setting things up for his own story down the road.

Gerse does need to be replaced if he is becoming a more meaningful character now. He simply couldn't pull it off. Thinking about it, I am not sure if Corday will let the show do male rape considering he doesn't like graphic stories like that and even had a hard time killing Zack. A gay story with Will dealing with gay bashing or stuff like that I could see but the male rape angle I have my doubts about as to whether he will allow that on the screen.

First, I just wanted to bump up this thread (so that we didn't lose it) and provide a link to the other thread with a similiar rumor posted at Dustin's site:

http://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/index.php?showtopic=11895

....a possible upcoming storyline on Days about a male rape that would be very brutal. She asked for opinions as to how the fans would react to something like that.

She said this was something that Hogan Sheffer and Ken Corday have already discussed and have plans to do in the future...

the possible upcoming storyline Hogan Sheffer and Ken Corday are wanting to do about the brutal male rape of a character on Days, it is a male on male rape that is supposed to be very brutal. Sheffer said that such has never been done on a daytime soap before.

Earlier in this thread, I said that Patrick could be the perpetrator, but after yesterday's scene with Will and EJ, I'm leaning towards EJ as the perpetrator. He really hates Will for interfering with his plans to bed Sami. Once he finds out that Kate has worked with John/Bo in their investigation, he's going to hate her. His enemies (Lucas, Sami and Kate) all have one thing in common--their love of Will. Destroying Will would hurt all of them very much.

Also, although I didn't mention it in Friday's thread, I did notice something from Lucas' dialogue that stuck out to me during the beginning of the episode:

Lucas: About yesterday -- what a great time we had.

Sami: Yeah, it was fun, wasn't it? Do you think will's ever gonna forgive me for being too chicken to do the parachute drop?

Lucas: Who cares about being chicken about that parachute? You did the roller coaster. That's a man's coaster. I don't know how you did that.

http://tvmegasite.net/day/days/transcripts...-11-09-06.shtml

That line in there may be meaningless. Just a throwaway line. I'm probably overanalyzing it but I'm wondering if just that little bit of dialogue was meant to reinforce Lucas' male bravado and to lay groundwork for the story ahead, if this rumor is true?

By the way, the original post from spoilerdiva is no longer available. But I found the rumor posted at Soapcity.....

Hi, no one here knows me... but I am what you could call an "insider" if you will. I work on the set of Days of Our Lives. It's a lot of fun, and I can say there have been a lot of exciting changes taking place! So much is going on... and there are some good surprises along the way. Anyways, recently there was a new addition to the cast... I'm not saying if he is a new character/or recast... but he fits the bill of the Days image that Corday and company like with their guys. His name is Kyle Sothen, he's a model/thespian... and he's a good guy with lot's of talen and ambition- he just landed a new home on Days!

Only here's the twist. This new character and/or recast (I'm being coy on purpose it may be a new character or it could be a recast of a young character ) is going to be in a huge storyline involving some beloved characters and going to be VERY good. The writing is already looking awesome. You ready for the twist? He's going to be gay. It's something that really hasn't been done on Days before, and Sheffer wants to explore the idea of coming out, on a level that maybe other soap operas haven't achieved. He isn't a sensationalist after all (as JER might have done for ratings grab).

The audition script was interesting none the less, and if featured "Alex" and "Jane". Alex is telling his grandmother Jane how he has already lost his mother, and he doesn't want to lose his father. He's heard the comments he has made in the past about gay people and afraid of how he might react. Jane holds Alex and tries to assure him that everything will be okay. Jane tells her grandson she knows there is more to his fear of coming out of the closet then just his father's reaction to his homosexuality. Alex finally breaks down and admits that he is afraid to tell his mother and father he is gay, because they always come so close to getting back together only to get ripped apart by some outside force. He doesn't want that to happen. Jane asks if anything else has happened to him, and Alex has a brief flashback of a mysterious person physically assaulting him, but tells his grandmother Jane no, merely fearing his homosexuality will destroy his parents chance of reuniting.

Anyways. I saw the audition sequence on tape, and it's a really powerful scene. I'm trying my best not to spill the beans, but there are better DAYS ahead. Let's just say that Hogan knew one of the male characters needed to get SORASED but because of family relations, wouldn't have a love interest. And he wanted a gay character, so things went along smoothly and the pieces of the puzzle went into place.

http://boards.sonypictures.com/soaps/showthread.php?t=73482

I still don't see any evidence that this rumor exists outside of fanfic.