House 
TV Show
Drama
Mystery
TV Show
Drama
Mystery
Updated: 28 March 2025
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned, discussed, implied
Sexual harassment e.g non-consensual grabbing, touching, cat-calling)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sex abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape off-screen or strongly implied
Rape on-screen

Description

Throughout the show, the main protagonist comments on his boss' cleavage and backside. This is handled mostly as a joke, and the topic of sexual harassment is brought up multiple times to then be brushed aside or cast as a joke. The theme is constant throughout the whole series, until the original boss leaves in the second to last season. S1E15: whether or not the male patient was a victim of prison rape is discussed repeatedly. S1E17: date rape is discussed. A female patient is diagnosed with "sexsomnia" and told that she has been repeatedly initiating sex while unconscious with her ex-boyfriend, and that he cannot be held accountable for the violation that she feels from it. S1E19: a 12-year old girl turns out to be pregnant and has an abortion. There are some slight hints in the episode that she is being molested by her adult swimming coach but the father is never identified or punished: the titular character colludes in keeping the rape a secret. The patient claims that she was able to consent to the sex and knew what she was doing. S2E2: a possibly terminally ill 9 year old patient asks her 30 year old male doctor to kiss her, which he does. As part of the differential diagnosis doctors speculate about whether she's been raped or not. S2E7: a woman takes drugs to cope with distress and makes a sexual advance on a man. He is initially apprehensive about her state and presence of mind, but ultimately, they sleep together. Aa man uses information gained from secretly accessing a therapist's file to get closer to a woman and manipulate her feelings about him in hopes of initiating a sexual and/or romantic relationship. S2E12: the episode starts with a violent onscreen attempted rape as what appears to be part of a sexually-motivated home invasion, but it later turns out to be a pre-arranged roleplay between the couple. At one point, the titular character is denied permission to cavity search the woman for concealed poisons, which a male colleague compares to a rape. S2E13: a father admits to having sex with his daughter. Throughout the episode, the titular character makes repeated sexual comments abouts the body of his 15 year old patient to her face, dad, staff, and a waiting room full of patients. At one point, he makes a bet with a coworker on whether her breast is real or fake. She is generally sexualised by every male character without being met with much protest. At the end, she removes her hospital gown and all men in the scene stand and stare until she covers herself again. S2E15: the episode starts with a violent onscreen attempted rape as what appears to be part of a sexually-motivated home invasion, but it later turns out to be a pre-arranged roleplay between the couple. At one point, the titular character is denied permission to cavity search the woman for concealed poisons, which a male colleague compares to a rape. S3E2: sexual abuse is considered in the differential of a young boy with rectal bleeding, but was not the cause. S3E4: a 17-year-old girl repeatedly sexually harrasses the titular character at his workplace, talking a lot about how the US age of consent is arbitrary, unimportant and too old. It is strongly implied in this episode and the next that he would have liked to sleep with her, although he does not. S3E5: a male patient is punished for being annoying by having a rectal thermometer left in him for several hours. A brother-sister incest is part of the plot. S3E12: a character is raped and has become pregnant. S3E13: the episode opens on a young couple in a car. The girl is initiating sexual contact, and the guy tries to turn her down multiple times, which she brushes off. She begins to touch him intimately and he grimaces in discomfort, possibly due to the oncoming medical episode he is experiencing. S3E19: there is a strong suggestion that a 6-year-old girl is being sexually abused by her father, but in the end it turns out she is not. At one point she is given a vaginal exam whilst incapable of speech and therefore is not clearly able to consent. Her older brother sexually harrasses a woman in the workplace. S3E22: a woman receives a breast exam while her doctor is high, and he winks at her unprofessionally. The titular character gets a much younger woman to agree to go on a date with him, by lying to her that it is a job interview. S4E4: while having a seizure, a character hallucinates that she is being raped by one of the corpses she is working on. S4E10: the titular character asks a young girl sexually inappropriate questions with no medical justification, only to try and make her uncomfortable. S4E15: the episode starts in a strip club. S5E2: a little girl is shown crying in pain as she receives a rectal endoscopy, for which there is very little medical justification. S5E3: a male patient briefly and unexpectedly attempts to assault, possibly sexually, a female doctor, but she hits him and gets away quickly. S5E5: a female patient is someone a female character has slept with; the titular character makes inappropriate comments about lesbian sex throughout. S5E8: a teenage girl patient claims that her father has raped her. She turns out to be lying. S5E11: a schoolgirl patient turns out to have had a baby with a boy at her school involved in bullying her. She claims the sex was consensual and then dies of the complications. S5E15: a priest is said to have molested a child 4 years prior to the episode. This is talked about throughout the episode but is not shown. The priest is thought to have aids and the child (who is now a teenager) is found in a scene and told to get tested, he is repulsed when the priest's name is mentioned. The teenager visits the priest and they apologise to eachother, it is implied the teenager made up the assault story. S6E1: a character very casually mentions being molested by his uncle. S6E4: a man describes the brutal kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of his wife. It is later revealed he was actually one of perpetrators who was forced to commit these acts, and did not know the her. S6E7: a teenage girl recounts being drugged and touched by an adult man. She is lying, but the events she is describing are shown as she speaks. S6E12: a patient falsely accuses a doctor of sexual harassment. S6E13: a man jokes about "only barely" being raped in prison. S6E15: a woman offhandedly recounts dating a 30-year-old man when she was 17. S6E16: an adult man has had sex with his son's teenage girlfriend. The girl was not a minor at the time, but was emotionally vulnerable and it is implied she may have been drinking. S7E10: an edited nude picture of a man is shared online in order to humiliate him. The situation is played for laughs throughout the episode. Someone the same man has slept with is revealed to be a minor. S7E22: a man at a strip club touches the dancer (in a non-sexual fashion) because she has a concerning mole on her back. She tells him not to touch her, but he does so again and is kicked out. He waits for her in the parking lotto talk to her about it and she panics and pulls a gun, thinking he has ulterior motives. She implies this is not the first time she has been accosted by men during or after work. S8E2: a young woman recounts being groped by her boss. S8E4: the consequences of the prior sexual harassment incident are discussed in the lead-up to a disciplinary hearing. The perpetrator is painted as sympathetic, and the young woman he harassed is painted as the aggressor because she defended herself physically. The titular character gropes a man to provoke a reaction. S8E6: a teenage boy is revealed to have been molested by his father as a child, causing him to contract an STD. He does not remember what happened, and his mother as well as the doctors decide not to tell him the true reason he got sick.

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