by Mr. Cryptic » January 31st, 2015, 10:24 pm
Hi CL - I've reflected some recently on why I like stories about superheroines being mind controlled by supervillains. Basically, it's like this:
1) I love seeing a person being seduced. By seduced I mean, being so overwhelmed by another's sex appeal or charm that they can't help becoming a love slave. It could be a man being seduced by a woman, although I usually show men seducing women, or sometimes women seducing women.
2) It's a lot sexier if the target of seduction resists the seduction, and the process of being seduced is dragged out, but the target falls anyway.
3) If the heroine is resisting the seducer because she really doesn't desire sex with him, but then he seduces her anyway, that's too much like r-pe for me. But, if I pair up a heroine and a villain, then heroine has very good reason to resist seduction, even if she wants sex. She has a duty as a heroine to resist being seduced by the villain. Her resisting is not necessarily about her not consenting to the sex, but rather to struggling not to fail in her duty.
4) I don't tend to show good people "hooking up" with other good people, because, quite frankly, I don't actually think it's a good idea for people to just casually "hook up." You've said before that in my stories, the sex has a purpose, and that's correct. I'm not a fan of gratuitious sex unconnected to anything else. I'm kind of a weird puritanical dirty comic artist.
The Taming of Stacey is kind of an experiment for me. I wanted to try a seduction mind control story without the heroine-villain plot device. It's basically just, she's hot and he wants to have sex with her. I skirt around the r-pe issue by portraying it as he's just manipulating her desires, not her actual will or ability to choose. I figure Stacey was already attracted to Carl anyway, but he accelerated it with hypnotic suggestion. I plan to continue Stacey's story and develop her relationship with Carl, while she has interesting, regular heroine (not superheroine) adventures.