It bothers me as well, rape being in so many manhwas. It’s like the author can’t write a good story without it.
Its just porn brain, rape porn is also popular w men, maybe it evolutionary. Someone probably made a study about it so ask the google scholar.
you know when you make yourself a alcoholic drink and up add a splash of soda just for the razzle dazzle... it's just like that. Plus like with the soda it makes the alcohol hit a little faster aka they don't need to write as much to get to meat and potatoes of the story line or don't have to do much explaining and world building
And yet these types manhwas get famous with a barely there story line but good art work. I believe we are what we consume and what we see and read indirectly or directly affects our thinking and behavior. And I believe these manhwas with such story lines that involve around rape desensitizes the brain towards such content to a large extent. I wish these authors could build up these story lines in a more interesting way but here we are…
They can totally get away with it by good art style. And probably because it's supposed to be like a bdsm, smut, porn... y'know? (￣∇￣")
Mangas and manhwas always contain rape and SA but they were mainstream. Lately though we witness a growing number of manhwas like this, torture porn and the kind - a more violent type of content revolving around rape, confinement, torture, even g/rape and more (bestiality), Stockholm Syndrom... Titles like No Reason, Bad Life, and lastly Reverse Thinking and finally this one, all have these caracteristiques. They're mainly popular because of the art, and the fact they're in webtoon format with longer chapters and get published on mainstream platforms like Ridibooks etc. They can also have the novel version. Normally this type of contents are generally short fictions (ex: works by Unknown), are extremely rape-oriented and confined on sites like MRM and the likes. But now these violent contents (manhwas) are becoming mainstream. The purpose isn't love or redemption ; the usual romance drama we find in bl/yaoi... The purpose is simply to show gratuituous rape and torture. Is this a new turn in bl world, will there be a new genre, or will they remain rather rare? Should we worry?
I thought BDSM is supposed to be consentual? It's why it's hot. Without consent it's just violent rape.
I just CANNOT seem to understand for the life of me WHY rape is so glorified among manga or manhwa communities. The majority of it involves rape one way or the other and nobody says anything about it. Are they trying to desensitize us to these vile acts of violence? Am the only one bothered by it?