Took a while to skim through all this, but I know a number of women who have these fantasies, and (to reiterate and recast some previously made points, and possibly add a new one):
- It seems (to me, at least) that "ravishment" is popular mainly because the woman is released from all the worries and responsibilities of sex -- will she get pregnant? catch a disease? not orgasm? not do her part to pleasure her partner? All these concerns go away. The man forces her to have sex, on his terms, but not in any harmful way; it's just that he won't take no for an answer and he's not putting up with procrastinating behavior that is ultimately BS for two people who want to share rough, no-holds-barred pleasures. He will have his pleasure, spectacularly and helplessly. Pregnancy? Disease? Let's not even worry about those tonight.
- Another angle, too, that I haven't seen emphasized much so far but I would like some reaction to -- do women like "ravishment" because what it says, in so many words, is "This manly man wants me so badly he will fight me physically, hold me down, subdue me, in order to attain his single-minded goal. He looks like he's abusing his physical superiority to force me into sex, but in fact he is showing weakness to me in that he will do anything to have sex with me; he is desperately in lust with me." A variation of "hard to get".
Thoughts?
Kevbo