reverse rape

The act of a female raping a male.

Noun

  1. The act of a female raping a male.
    • Minutes later it was over and the victim, Doug, an advertising executive in Connecticut, had been raped by a woman. Occurrences of reverse rape have increased dramatically in recent years. - 1986, Bob Larson, Larson's...
    • To understand why she reacted in that way to both the social climate of rape and the rape of the woman reader in Les Liaisons, it is instructive to remember how every rape in Laclos is a staged event — simultaneously...
    • […] female invasive orality (and King's metaphors for the process of lifesaving revolve around a kind of reverse rape, the male author 'being raped back into life by the woman's stinking breath' (M, 7), as the text...

Origin

So called because it is the opposite of the more common case of a man raping a woman.

Forms

reverse rapes

Related

rape reverse racism reverse sexism