Help!

[deannie]

Okay, so I have this bingo card, right? For hc_bingo ? And I got dub-con, which I should have asked to not to have because I don't really understand the difference between dub con and rape and I don't think I could write a rape scene these days.

What's the difference? To me a powerplay of a boss pressuring an underling is rape. A captive seduced by his or her captor is also rape.

What's dubcon? 

Comments

[randi2204]

I'm not sure if this will help or not, but in case you haven't already seen it, here's Fanlore's definition. Not non-con/rape, but a reluctance in whatever capacity.

[james]

I always think of dubcon as where the reader isn't sure if there is consent or not -- like if the two are consenting to have a scene where one forces the other, so that during the scene there isn't explicit consent but before and after, even if it's "off-screen" the forced one clearly was okay with it.

Kind of like a dom pushing a sub past their boundaries, or establishing control, or utilising punishment -- the sub might not want it, but they want to be dominated, so they take it because the little thing they don't want is part of a bigger thing they do.