Another commenter will respond to this prompt with a fill containing a story that follows the guidelines of the prompt. A kink meme is an online community (usually on Livejournal) that consists of “prompts” and “fills.” A commenter will post a prompt in order to request a story with certain guidelines. I’m going to approach this topic in a roundabout way by talking about kink memes. What I would like to argue here is that a great deal of what one could call “yaoi fantasy rape” actually subverts mainstream, real-world rape culture. Nor do I support rape culture or any ideology that sustains it. I do not support the actual rape of actual human beings, regardless of their gender or sexual orientation. Trigger warning for discussions of rape and rape culture, both in the essay and in the comments.īefore I say anything else, I should clarify – I’m talking about fictional, fantasy rape, specifically the rape that occurs in the male/male romance narratives encompassed by yaoi manga, anime, light novels, visual novels, and dōjinshi.