GH: Jax's Rape

[Marc]

I don’t like female-to-male rape storylines either because more times than not, it seems like a total farce and is hard to take seriously. As politically incorrect as this will sound, in general, I basically see it more as sexual coercion than knock down, drag out rape.

As a man, I couldn’t become physically aroused by someone who I’m not attracted to…especially when they're supposedly “forcing” sex upon me. It just wouldn’t happen. I’d be as limp as toilet paper.

Rape is torture. Someone becoming physically aroused during such torment simply doesn’t mesh.

[stenbeck212]

THANK YOU!

[dragonflies]

But wait, Sami on Days was forced into sex, and the man she loved threatened, but people say that's not rape.

LOL ITA Cheap, it's rape, just like it was for Sami

[Cheap21]

I dont think its the same as Sami. From what I read, Ethan didnt threaten to kill her or Lucas. He just wouldnt help save Lucas. And she wasnt physically attacked, or restrained down with handcuffs like Jax was. This is a shot of Irina and Jax after she raped him. Theres nothing ambigious about it

[dragonflies]

I guess we'll disagree

Poor Jax

[ANDREA LOATHES REILLY]

You read correctly. Sami PAID EJ for his services.

Irina is absolutely disgusting, and mock my words - Jax will have the child he always wanted, and not by Skanky Carly!

ANDREA

[stenbeck212]

So not only was this rape a total success, but Jax climaxed too?

[R Sinclair]

Rape has nothing to do with sexual arousal, or not. It has to do with abusive assertion of power. Whether Jax was aroused by Lil' Miss Mangled English or not, he said NO! She didn't have his consent. Just like a woman could be sexually attracted to a man, but when things get a little too deep for her and she says NO and he continues regardless, it's rape.

Sexual arousal does not equal consent.

[ANDREA LOATHES REILLY]

AMEN!

ANDREA

[henrietta]

Yeah, the scenes are quite revolting, but Jax looks good. Are they purposefully dressing him extra sexy? She must have had clothes there for him to wear. He looks like a swashbuckler on the cover of a romance novel, ala Errol Flynn.

I suppose if she had him beat to a pulp within an inch of his life we could accept that more easily.

[stenbeck212]

Nope, but it does equal the likelihood that this "rapist" did what we're to believe she did. GH will have to bull back those sheets and show me to prove it. There's being felt up and groped without consent, and then there's RAPE. I just have to know how many of the people responding are men or women.

[NYC123]

This women is so stupid that is keeping Jax.

[quartermainefan]

Rape is physically overpowering and violating someone sexually with no choice left to the victim. Jax had a choice. He chose to have sex with this woman so she would not kill Carly (why I do not know--Jax being a widower is the best thing that could happen to this once fun character).

[Cheap21]

Rape does not always involve physically being overpowered. Besides look at the pic from above. Irina had Jax gagged and handcuffed to the bed while she had her way with him. She already threatened to kill him during her toture of him. Jax had very little choice here

[Juliajms]

Thankfully, that is not the legal definition.