Here I am with a serious issue and this page will not have sarcasm or jokes. I love and enjoy your guy's funny comments and the love you give through it but I would request you to not joke over this page. This is serious and if you will joke over this then sorry you are not a human being. In case, you write such stories, then you should consider rethinking about your story.

Idea inspired from  VELLIGal naina_writes
Things added/edited by VELLIGal

Without beating around the bush, the topic I am going to talk about is rape. Rape in any way (marital rape, gang rape). I know many have made a point at this place but it is actually never enough to point at it. For general information: I am not trying or wanting to mock at anyone or blame any individual. In case, you don't write or read it, please read this post.

Let's go back once to school basis:
Rape's definitions in the Cambridge dictionary: (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rape)
    ~ to force someone to have sex when he or she is unwilling, using violence or threatening behaviour
    ~ (an example of) the crime of forcefully having sex with someone against their wishes
    ~ to damage or destroy something by using it in an unsuitable way

Back to Wattpad:
Despite many knowing the fact, rape is considered to be something harmless and simplified by writers.
The rapist? Obviously (to make a 'good' plot) the male lead.
Some writers make the rapist a stranger, other choose to show rape inside a marriage.
The end of the story (often)? The rape victim falls in love with her rapist, and they have a happy ever after.

But guys is it that easy? Have you ever talked to someone who has been raped? Or even read about it? The trauma behind those some hours of someone's Lust? Just for your own story's purpose you literally make fun of other's suffering.
Probably you think, it is just a story. But guess what a rape survivor will feel like, if he/she reads your story. This can hurt someone's sentiments to the core but for the story's sake it's simplified as almost nothing.

To the reader's of such a story: Some of you raise point at it but many say nothing about it, instead the story. And trust me if I say, more vulgar than the story are the comments. It is not only the writer's faults to write such stories, it is you as well. Readers are the pillars of the writers and if readers point it out then writers would think about such stories as well. But what happens mostly on fandoms: People don't see the person's doings. They see who does it.

If it is the typical villain, readers will curse him and abuse him.
If it is the male lead, readers will find excuses to justify his behaviour.
This is not only the peak of hypocrisy but also really disgusting.

These are one kind of the stories. Then there are those stories, which show rape by some random person still the rape is justified. I have been really disturbed some days before about a plot.

The plot was something like this(For example purposes): A girl gets gang raped by two men and reaches the hospital. The male lead is a good friend of hers and her forceful boyfriend's (the boyfriend was her best friend before) elder brother. A day after the rape the survivor is more concerned about her love from whom she's separated since before 5 years. There is no inner turmoil of hers. Almost 5 days later the rape was a long forgotten thing and the lead's love story was shown. Things get even better when her best friend gets forgiveness from her, when he indirectly helped the rapists to reach her.

I just felt anger on myself for needing to read something like this. There is a trauma of years behind such an incident but things are just simplified to nothing.

Please stop simplifying rape and don't even try playing that 'it happens across many households of India' card. It is not nothing. It is a struggle of weeks, months and even years. Out of thousands of rape cases not even all are legally registered. Even lesser people get justice for it. The day you start normalizing such heinous acts is the day when the mentality of our country or any other country is going to doom. Romanticising such things will only add fuel to the fire.

I am not saying to not write a story on rape but if you write it, justify it as well and justify it well too.

Just for you to read about the trauma after it (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-17487519):

Sarah Scott hasn't relaxed since the day she was raped in 2010. "I just want to be the old Sarah, a fun and happy young girl," she admitted. Sarah was raped after a girls' night out by an acquaintance, who persuaded her to go to his flat by saying her friends were already there. He threatened to kill her and she was beaten and raped. "I tried so hard to get away, I just felt powerless," she explained.
"I screamed, I kicked him. But I wasn't strong enough." Sarah managed to escape when he fell asleep, running into the street wearing only a bloody dressing gown. She was refused help by two men she ran up to. She collapsed in the street and was found by two police officers.
Her attacker was arrested and Sarah said his trial was important for her to face her fear. "I realised that he wasn't this terrifying person. He was pathetic." But she said nothing could have prepared her for the aggressive nature of the cross examination about the rape by the defence lawyer. "He accused me of liking it... it was horrific. I thought I was a victim, but at that point I felt like a criminal." Sarah's attacker was found guilty and sentenced to eight years.

She now campaigns for rape victims and works with the police to help them improve how they deal with victims of rape. Fear of demonisation in the courts and not being believed puts off many victims of rape from reporting their attacks. Shame, fear and embarrassment also stop victims speaking out.

Laura (not her real name) did not tell anyone when she was raped by her boyfriend, because she didn't think people would believe her.

Rape Crisis say one in five rapes are carried out by a boyfriend or husband. Several years ago Laura's then boyfriend agreed to take things slow and wait till she was ready to have sex.
"But one night he decided he wanted what he wanted - I didn't really have any say in it," she said. She said she had a sense of disbelief that it had happened. "I kind of put it away... but it's not something you can bury because it changes who you are." Laura didn't think the police or a jury would believe her. "People have such defined views, I was staying over at his house - they think 'if you were there then what did you expect'."
No closure or justice. While for many the fear of having to relive the experience in court puts them off reporting it altogether - most reported attacks never actually make it that far.

Natalie (not her real name) felt angry when her case was dropped the day before it was due to start. "They said the percentage chance to win was too low," she explained. But Natalie wanted her day in court. "I felt even if I didn't win the case, I would have been able to talk out about what happened and to put my point across." "I've had no closure or justice on the case." Natalie had been gang-raped by people she thought were her friends.Four years ago, when Natalie was 16, she made friends with a group of local boys. "I felt very safe around them, they would always be there to protect me when I went out to parties," she said. She started dating one of them, but one evening she spent in their company the atmosphere changed. The leader of the group started making sexual comments towards her. It built up until he threatened her with a knife and raped her. He then made the others take it in turn to rape her. Today she is moving on with her life, but she still has reminders that they avoided prosecution.

"I've seen him quite a few times (the leader of the gang)…and he's living life. I will always remember him but I don't know if he even remembers me." (Full article can be found under the link. )

There are two things more about which I wanna speak my heart out as it related to this only.

First: Victim and survivor. These are two different things. Be careful what you chose.

Second: Even men can be rape survivors. So everything applies to them as well. Don't simplify them getting raped as well. Their struggle is real as well. Just for you to see. These are messages written by men/boys:

(https://www.boredpanda.com/male-sexual-assault-survivors-project-unbreakable/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)

Although most research is focused on wives as victims of marital rape, husbands experience marital rape as well. Little research exists focusing on the specific situation of non-consensual wife-to-husband sexual relations, but evidence suggests that 13%-16% of men are victims of assault by marital or cohabitating partners in their lifetime (Tjaden and Thoennes, 2000). Research conducted by Morse (1995), Straus (1977-1978), and Straus and Gelles (1985) suggest that men and women have nearly the same annual rates of victimization of violence by a marital or cohabitating partner (Tjaden and Thoennes, 2000).

(Source: Wikipedia)

If you ever watched the 2nd Episode of the season 1 of Satyamev Jayate you might remember this. Though this episode was not on marital rape but child sexual abuse yet you should really read this and watch the episode too if you want to.

(https://youtu.be/nUvM4XjT_vk)

Harish Iyer became the victim of sexual abuse in the tender age of seven. His maternal uncle raped him. He raped him from years, ruined his childhood.

Once, during the time he was still getting abused he went to play in the beach with his friends. The other kids removed their clothes to jump in the sea water but he couldn't and you know why? It was because as soon as he removed his pants he noticed that his private part was bleeding. Yes, you read it right.

He tried giving his mother hints by telling her that he was bleeding but his mother dismissed him quoting that it's just because you eat too many mangoes.

If you want to know more about his story then watch his TEDx Talk.

(https://youtu.be/_dR_yh-9jyU)

Mostly, male victims try to hide and deny their victimization, similar to female victims, unless they have serious physical injuries. Eventually, the male victims may be very vague in explaining their injuries when they are seeking medical or mental health services.

Men can be victims to such acts too. Please open your eyes if you think that it can only happen to women. Not every man is a predator. Not every woman is an innocent victim.

Just a last thing to say. If you are really against such stories then let's start to do a bit in OUR Wattpad community. Whenever you see such a story don't just ignore it, go to the writer and private message them these things:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_and_aftermath_of_rape
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_trauma_syndrome
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-17487519
(https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/drc-male-female-rape-survivors-share-stories-200412123610314.html
https://www.boredpanda.com/male-sexual-assault-survivors-project-unbreakable/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)

Just imagine if the writer gets even 5 such messages, at a time he/she will be ashamed. (These links can be found in my message board on the 30.05.2020.)

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Will you do it?

In case anyone thinks I am just ranting like an idiot, I have done it as well and I will try my level best to do it in future as well.

If I am wrong in any place you can tell me here or in private. I will try my level best that you won't get bashed.

P. S. It is truly sickening that marital rape is still legal in India.