40 Days and 40 Nights on ITV2 tonight

**frostyboy** · #1 10th-July-2007

I thought I'd let you guys know that 40 Days and 40 Nights is being shown on ITV2 at 9pm tonight. The comedy film has a female-on-male rape scene that's not even acknowledged as rape.

Fred X · #2 10th-July-2007

I've seen this- and I urge you all to watch it

The scene in question occurs at the end (within the last 10 mins) and the way they dealt with it was, in typical fashion, uncaring towards men

Nothing new there then

Feminist_Scum · #3 11th-July-2007

Not sure where I stand on this. There was a case about a man having sex with a woman, where the woman was alledgedly decieved in to thinking he was someone else. This is pretty much the same situation in the film.

Is getting sex by fraud, rape? I'm not sure.

FFFF · #4 11th-July-2007

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Originally Posted by Feminist_Scum

Not sure where I stand on this. There was a case about a man having sex with a woman, where the woman was alledgedly decieved in to thinking he was someone else. This is pretty much the same situation in the film.

Is getting sex by fraud, rape? I'm not sure.

I would think that a person cant consent to a person if they dont know who they are!

I mean, apart from saying "right, anyone who wants it, here it is.."..

Marx · #5 11th-July-2007

In this film he was asleep AND restrained... not quite the same as pretending to be someone else.

40 days - 40 nights - rape scene

Feminist_Scum · #6 11th-July-2007

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I would think that a person cant consent to a person if they dont know who they are!

I mean, apart from saying "right, anyone who wants it, here it is.."..

I'm still undecided.

My main problem is, can you rape someone who is letting you have sex with them?

Feminist_Scum · #7 11th-July-2007

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In this film he was asleep AND restrained... not quite the same as pretending to be someone else.

40 days - 40 nights - rape scene

Hmm, from what I remember, he clearly thinks it's Erica who is having sex with him as he says after she enters the room, he thought it was her. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure.

I think this is a grey area.

**pjanus** · #8 11th-July-2007

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Hmm, from what I remember, he clearly thinks it's Erica who is having sex with him as he says after she enters the room, he thought it was her. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure.

I think this is a grey area.

If you reverse the roles it would be rape!

Fred X · #9 11th-July-2007

Karl- that was an old thread !

I remember it like yesterday

In regards to the rape, can you imagine, just like others have noted, that if it was a woman who was tied up and a man who satisfied himself using her body, the kind of uproar that film would have caused?

To me- this is biased because the film doesn't even register a rape occurred or even try to condemn her actions

Marx · #10 11th-July-2007

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Karl- that was an old thread !

I remember it like yesterday

To me- this is biased because the film doesn't even register a rape occurred or even try to condemn her actions

Yes, Fred - just look at the number: 623, LoL - HOW OLD?!?

More importantly though, your reasons for anger are precisely as mine - that the film absolutely ignored that he had been raped. No matter HOW anyone looks at this, the facts are that had it been gender reversed - the scene would have been followed by at least 20minutes or so of how her 'feelings' had been affected, and all the other crap that goes on. But according to the producers of this film, it doesn't matter because...well, he's only a guy, right!

Fred X · #11 11th-July-2007

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No matter HOW anyone looks at this, the facts are that had it been gender reversed - the scene would have been followed by at least 20minutes or so of how her 'feelings' had been affected, and all the other crap that goes on. But according to the producers of this film, it doesn't matter because...well, he's only a guy, right!

100% correct

**chevalier** · #12 11th-July-2007

We had a post on here some months ago about a woman who claimed she was raped by her boyfriends twin brother she consented to sex but it was rape because she thought she was consenting to sex with her boyfriend not the brother. What's the difference here if any?