Word: self-rape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self- + rape. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlfˌɹeɪp/, /ˌsɛlfˈɹeɪp/ 1. An act of rape where the rapist identifies with or is the same as the victim. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tubby transvestite star Divine still manages to provide some fine, ghastly moments, including a Christmas tantrum (she fails to get shoes with cha-cha heels), a hilariously gross trampoline act, and, through the magic of cross-cutting, a self-rape, which must be a movie first. Example: Read literally, that "as" means that Stephan renders the oft-depicted scene from Ovid as follows: Leda, the raped, has become the metamorphosed Zeus, the rapist, and is therefore caught up in a hopeless knot of self-rape. 2. Submission to an unwanted sexual act. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If I forced myself to let myself be made love to against my inclination I'd hang myself for a rapist. There is self-rape, isn't there? Example: This ever-ready willingness not only to be raped but to like it too, is of course the wet-dream ideal of womanhood — that is to say, of all other women but one's own — remarked upon bitterly in Ruth Hersch- berger's Adam's Rib (1948) chap. 3, "Is Rape A Myth?" It represents a fantasy escape by men from the rigorous female chastity demanded by patriarchy. These jokes of female self-rape, by 'mistake,' may be lumped with the endless novelistic tales of adultery written by men in which the woman is always at fault. 3. Behaving contrary to one's own nature, usually as a result of outside pressure. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Only when he desists from his self-rape and gives his animal side its head, no matter how "unnatural" its aspirations, can he finally transcend it and grow into a human being. Example: Another parliamentarian, Gabi Potthast, agreed that the situation is destructive. To go into patriarchal politics and adapt to their ways is self-rape. 4. Masturbation. Labels: countable, derogatory, often, uncountable Example: I'm sure in your mind, that pee wee's masturbation was probably self-rape. We should cut off the offending hand. Uh oh, what if he used both? Example: One perspective I heard when growing up was that masturbation amounts to self-rape. 5. Masturbation without self-love. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Masturbation undertaken with an inhibition of enjoyment, physical pain, or regrets and remorse is a genital example of self-rape. Example: Masturbation can also be carried out as a self-rape, in which case it becomes doing to oneself what one would like to do to another — an act of aggression, not love. 6. The act of inflicting obscene violence against oneself. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the moment when Faustus is damned, they don pontifical ornaments to cast him into Hell. Brown monks' robes are worn by the other characters. When Faustus signs Mephisto's pact he divests himself of his vestments in a sort of self-rape. Example: "In New York" she recalls, "I could go out to clubs and get laid. That's unheard-of in Santa Cruz, where they nurture each other and have sex side by side so that no one is on top. I dated a woman there who thought that using a dildo was like committing self-rape." 7. Self-destructive activity. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: The shipping boom the industry had been riding since the prelude to the war collapsed in 1920. As Europe recovered from its self-rape and rebuilt its industries, the demand for American goods and the ships to carry them was greatly curtailed. Example: ...as an act of "self-rape" by the "willingly self-conflicting soul that inflicts suffering upon itself, out of pleasure in inflicting suffering" (GM, II, § 18).