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"Raped"

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Seen in this way, the woman is masturbating him, and the huge erection demonstrates, or suggests to her desiring imagination, that he, too, desires her. But alas for her, the guy is not seduced; he is repulsed. It is he who feels “raped”.

This is where the classical story is torn apart. His repulsion is foregrounded by his hands, which seem to be pushing her away.