Rape pornography

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Rape pornography is a genre of pornography involving the depiction of rape.

Some feminists and social conservatives argue that it encourages men to commit rape, and that it denigrates and devalues women. However, others, including some feminists, dispute this, and numerous studies have produced different results to the correlation.^[1] Some also argue that rape fantasy is a sadomasochistic fantasy that can be enjoyed from either a passive or active perspective, by either men or women, and does not necessarily lead to rapes being committed.

[edit] Methods of production

Rape pornography can be produced either by:

Actors pretending to be raped or raping — e.g., an actress pretends not to consent to sexual activity with one or more actors, but in reality is a consenting participant who may be acting in the scene for money, personal enjoyment, or other reasons. In this case, although the sex depicted is given the appearance of rape, all participants are actually consenting.
Real, actual rapes, recorded by the perpetrators. This method is largely hypothetical, as no examples of widely-available rape pornography produced in this manner have been documented.