>>5288>>5315Did you ask her why? Did you give her more details about why you don't think it's right to have these thoughts and why you want it away?
I think she wanted you to stop feeling guilty about it first, and she didn't actually mean "wanting to be raped is good". She might consider a rape fantasy a problem in itself if it starts affecting your real life, but if you can keep it "under control" and only in your imagination, and if it doesn't interfere in your daily life, there's no need to feel bad about it. That's what my therapist said about me watching porn, when I told her that I felt bad about liking it so much.
BUT if your therapist actually refused to help you get rid of your fetish when you directly told her that you want to get rid of it, that's fucked up. My therapist asked me: "do YOU really want to stop watching porn?" She was ready to help me if I said yes, but in all honesty, I didn't really want that and said no, so she asked me if I am able to control my porn consumption (in a way that I can do my daily activities and concentrate on things without that getting in the way). I said yes and she told me there's no need to feel guilty about it then.
Besides,
>>4683Rape fantasies are different from reality so it's practically impossible for those fantasies to happen in real life. If you actually wanted to be raped for real and enjoyed putting yourself in real danger in hopes of being raped, that would be concerning. So
maybe this is what your therapist meant, and she wasn't being "sex positive" (in the way you implied). But of course I might be wrong about that. I know American therapists have an abysmal reputation for being completely useless and not giving a fuck about your well-being. I'm not American.
>mine stemmed from being raped and it's a form of self harm for meSo it sounds like it's a coping mechanism for you, I see.
>having an actual professional say something that's on par with doing drugs or cutting yourself is actually totally fine is fucked up imo lmaoImo not really because yours are just thoughts, not actions. You should've definitely asked her to explain just to be sure what she meant by that. If you want to get rid of a negative coping mechanism, you have to acknowledge it as such first. You know that being obsessed, disgusted and feeling guilty about a thought might make you lose control over it and turn it into an intrusive thought. So accepting your coping mechanism of rape fantasies might be the first step.
>>4705I wonder how this happened. Did you just start to imagine what really went on in those implied rape scenes in movies? Have you tried moving from violent rape fantasies to consensual sex ones little by little?