re: Rape in movies past...

The rape of Kyle Maclachlan in Blue Velvet is a pre-rape/post-rape scene. Kind of like the one in A Clockwork Orange. The scene showing him being raped was edited out because test audiences found it to be too disturbing. It was decided that it was better to leave it implied. They did this despite showing a woman being raped earlier in the film. This shows that people (including women) think that a man being raped is more disturbing than a woman being raped. What this says about people and their psychology is very interesting to me. Men are supposed to be strong. They are supposed to be defenders, and seeing a man vulnerable can be too much for people in general to handle.