Don’t worry – I’ll change your name on your comment too.

I agree that no one “wants” to be raped, but the artistic license was meant to deliver a point. Margaret Atwood wrote a short story called Rape Fantasies, where several women shared romanticized fantasies of ravishings and rape, where Estelle focused on the comical rescues and escapes from rape as she avoided the sexual abuse. This short story, published in the late 70′s, was actually a fairly good pulse for a change in sexual understandings and the revelation and prevention of actual rapes. A comedic offset to suggest that a small percentage of the population of women may not be opposed to rape isn’t meant to diminish the horror or punishment of the crime, but to absurd the concept that people would want to be raped. the usage here is like yelling fire instead of rape, fire instead of “I’m being robbed,” or fire, I’m being murdered. It puts the word and the concept into our working vocabulary and gives emphasis. That emphasis isn’t done to be ignorant or stupid, it’s meant to sharpen an already lethal word into a weapon of action and sometimes into advocacy.