Do you find this sexually arousing?

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My best friend @lewisvenable has been wanting me to watch "I Spit On Your Grave" for a few months now. It's a movie about a woman who gets brutally gang-raped and sodomized, and as revenge, she brutally slaughters her rapists.

On Halloween, my other friend wanted to watch a horror movie together, so I figured we'd watch I Spit On Your Grave. He said that he got a boner when seeing her commit the murders.

My sister told me that I need to get some normal friends LMAO

Have you experienced sexual arousal due to seeing fictional murders in media (TV/movies/etc)?

AmandaYVR · Accepted Answer

Fear, pain, anxiety-causing situations, none of that is at all arousing for me.
But in regards to this example, I have a theory. It's most likely that his body did somewhat react to the earlier rape scene. Hard not to, violent or not, for some people. (More on that in a moment.) By the time the girl gets her revenge, retribution, satisfaction, the audience is well with her, on her side, and they want it too. It is both emotionally satisfying, and I think the idea of a very strong girl/women is also coming into play. Your male friend clearly likes the fact that she is strong, tough, and able to take care of herself. Femininity and sweetness and all sorts of other typically 'female' traits are great, but there is also that element of self-sufficiency and independnce, that is appealing to all, no matter gender, and often age.
Also, you may be interested to know that there was a university study (I forget by which university - I would not be able to find it again), I have mentioned it here once before on gag... about playing graphic, aggressive, violent imagery to young females, while they were hooked up to sensors and probes which measured their sexual and physiological respones (genitals, heart rate, temperature). It also recorded facial expression and body language as they sat in chairs, staring at the monitor. The interesting thing was, the girls mostly unilaterally claimed they were not aroused (I believe they had a dial which they turned) and there were interviews conducted afterwards. But their bodies spoke otherwise.
Why did this happen? The scientists did not know conclusively, but their theory is that because there is often sexual violence against women, and there is nothing preventing a cruel man from entering her, aroused or not, there is some physiological advantage to women being aroused, even in negative situations - the act will be less painful (of course this does nothing to prevent the emotional trauma that will last well beyond the incident.)
So knowing this, and that we have been around, in this same basic form, for 50,000 years, it is not unreasonable to assume our biology is at work. Sex is sex, wanted or not. I am somewhat disturbed that any men (or women) could gain any pleasure from watching rape, but we have not been as relatively docile as we are today. Our bodies do react to very base feelings and images.
However I do agree with @jamie05rhs rape is not entertainment, and should not be a regular theme involving self-gratification. Find other sources. Arousal can come in many forms (a girl or woman who is strong and knows how to kick ass and take care of herself is nothing but great), but violence is not something we need more of. Retribution as a resolution for violence is a less evolved means of getting over something. Justice, and looking inwards at how to process the situation, and outwards at society and why these evils happen... these would better serve the individual, and society. Glorification for entertainment is suspect.

morimeme1 · Accepted Answer

Lol was this movie based on Twilight? That's literay the background of Rosalie 😅

Jamie05rhs · Accepted Answer

Wait- hold on.

1. Being turned on does not necessarily equal having a boner. You can be turned on without a boner. Also, sometimes that phrase is used figuratively and doesn't refer to sexual arousal at all. (Such as being turned on by an automobile.). ... Though I don't know if your friend was being serious or being facetious about the erection. (Unless you personally saw the bulge.)

2. Yes, I would most definitely get satisfaction from seeing a rapist get murdered. (As long as it wasn't too graphic because I can't handle graphic violence in general. I saw Kill Bill and almost got sick.)

3. Lewis needs to chill on the rape stuff. You can tell him I said that.

Jjpayne · Accepted Answer

I think that there is something about a woman taking revenge. It's powerful , it's kind of like a female terminator like the bad girl in terminator 3.. there is a sexiness to it especially when what's she's wearing remains sexy. I personally can't watch the movie for the rape that takes place but it's empowering to see men lose their power at their death. It's sexually arousing because taking lives is seen as a guy thing while women can be seen as wanting peace so it becomes kind of like a fetish

anupamagrawal · Answer

A boner by seeing killings - God saves his girl.

MzAsh · Answer

No but that movie is pretty good.

CharlieBadger · Answer

The murderous acts I don't find arousing, likewise, an image that I would normally find hot completely turns me off if blood plays a part in the image.

Yet a smoking hot girl with a gun or a sword. Total turn on.

andreasucks · Answer

I get very turned on by rapes in movies

Apple1996 · Answer

I love murder shows and movies

inchesfrommadness · Answer

Your friends are pretty funny

Aquariusgangsht · Answer

Kind of sadistic to be turned on by murder isn’t it? I don't know

joloni · Answer

Maybe you aroused him and he just didn't want to admit it? If not wonder if that's a sign of a psychopath. Do you think it would have been worse if he got a boner when she was brutally raped?

reptocarl · Answer

I find it plain strange and creepy someone would be sexually aroused by that movie. I’ve seen all three. Be careful with this guy. Something’s off there

J_Klayton · Answer

I never get turned on by any kind of murder or suffering.
I remember that I did like the main actress's butt in the nude scene in that movie.
The idea that she had been raped ruined it for me though.
I just fast forwarded through all the revenge/murder crap.

MannySimms · Answer

When this guy finally goes off the deep end, people will ask if his prior behavior held any clues.  Back to you for a decision...

Ripper_E · Answer

No. There is nothing arousing about that.

pigoat · Answer

Love the original movie and remake Also the sequels to both

AngelLily · Answer

Your friend definitely got some problems.

Nik1hil · Answer

It's not as much the act as the actress giving him boner..

justawhiteman · Answer

Murder/Dismay/Violence is just horrible honestly, especially after being raped myself though..

copperscene · Answer

It's literally torture porn, which is not to say that it's a bad movie. I enjoyed it and a lot of similar films in the "righteous vengeance" genre (I spit on your grave, last house on the left, straw dogs, irreversible, etc). The formula is to show you outrageous violation to make the revenge at the end feel justified and satisfying. Only irreversible turns that formula on its head (literally, by showing you the scene backwards to take all context and justification out of the revenge sequence and see how you judge it without the back story to frame the brutality). But I've never enjoyed or gotten arousal from the rape/torture/murder sequences

LeeKenz · Answer

As someone who's been raped I hate the movie

douride2 · Answer

I can't watch movies like that.

hellacray · Answer

So... How do feminists feel about the film? I'm very curious.  Cause there's a rape scene, but the woman gets revenge.

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