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19-2 (TV Show)
A few times over season 1, rape or sexual assault is mentioned or discussed in the background. An example of this is when a character has to leave early because she "needs to interview a rape victim in 10 mins". S1E4: at the beginning of the episode, a woman reports a gang rape and the episode follows the police officers tracking down the perpetrators. One of the perpetrators calls his arrest "bullshit" as he is getting pushed into the police vehicle: the victim is presumed to be in hearing distance. She is later interviewed in an emotional scene. A cop harasses and invades the personal space of his gay female colleague and makes comments about her having a threesome with him and another woman. He later walks in on her changing and harasses and kisses her. Worthy of note: A female character is in a violent relationship, her male intimate partner is a cop. He is shown living life without consequences. S1E9: a video is shown of a woman being beaten by a group of ambushers. At one point the assailants spread her legs and break her thigh bone with a baseball bat (24:30).
24 (2001) (TV Show)
S1E1: two high-school girls are lured into a private location by adult men for sex and kidnapped. One is drugged. S1E2: the drugged girl is beaten. The other girl is physically and sexually assaulted and forced to call her mom and lie about her safety. S1E5: a boy is accused of killing the person who raped his sister. S1E9: a kidnapper attempts to rape a girl while her mom is held at gunpoint. The mom forfeits her body to save her daughter.
91 Days (TV Show)
One woman marries a man only to keep her family safe. Later it shows them having sex, then it is shown that she is pregnant with his child. Their relationship seems non consensual and he talks a lot of what would happen to her family if she left him.
The ABC Murders (TV Show)
A young woman has been forced into prostitution by her mother. S1E1: we can hear the sounds of her with men in the background noise. S1E3: a man walks into a bathroom to threaten a woman while she is vulnerable bathing.
Absentia (TV Show)
S2E6: a man attempts to rape a woman in the restroom, but she ends up fighting him off. S1E6: character finds videos of bondage and torture porn, which are shown in very graphic flashes and audio at different moments throughout the episode (11:30-13:30). Worthy of note: a character sees from a window in a nearby building, a couple having very rough sex, and the scene can be triggering, specially considering the previous one, with the videos (19:20-20:20).
The Act (TV Show)
S1E6: a couple has sex, but the girl does not seem to enjoy it. S1E8: on-screen rape (49:45-51:21).
Alias Grace (TV Show)
Rape on-screen: A flashback during S1E1 shows the rape of a patient who is tied down and unable to resist. In S1E4, a character is sexually assaulted in a dream. Incest, child sex abuse: a character recounts having been raped by her father as a child.
The Alienist (TV Show)
The show features multiple scenes set in child brothels. The main plot revolves around a serial killer who murders children/teenage boys who were forced into prostitution.
Allen V. Farrow (TV Show)
Almost Paradise (TV Show)
S2E2 deals with a sex trafficking ring. S2E8 mentions grooming and involves a cult where a man brainwashed young women.
American Crime Story (TV Show)
Season 2 - The Assassination of Gianni Versace The scenes in question are featured in episodes 7 and 8. Season 3 - Impeachment This season is about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal so sexual misconduct is a central theme. S3E1: a woman explains how Bill Clinton sexually harassed her by inviting her to his hotel room, kissing her and asking her to perform oral sex on him. She is visibly distressed while explaining it, and has to do a press conference with male journalists asking details on the scene despite her clearly stating that she would not comment on it (she again appears very distressed). Later, another woman explains that the same man assaulted her (forcingly kissing her). Throughout the episode, it is hinted several times that he is a sexual predator. S3E2: the harassment mentioned in S3E1 is discussed again in this episode, and the victim is shown being instrumentalized about it for political purposes. The relation between Clinton and Lewinsky (featuring a power imbalance) is depicted: the female protagonist is also shown being instrumentalized by another character, who encourages her to pursue this relation. S3E3: the female protagonist dismisses the sexual harassment allegations made by a woman against Bill Clinton (relating to the events in S3E1) several times throughout the episode. S3E4: the nature of the relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky is discussed (the female protagonist denies that it is sexual harassment or power abuse). A man touches a woman's butt as a 'goodbye' without her consent (around 29 minutes in). One of the female protagonist explains that an adult (an authority figure) tried to have sex with her when she was 14 and only stopped when she said 'no'. She also explains that her first romantic and sexual relationship was with a teacher while she was in high school. Incest is briefly mentioned as a joke. S3E7: in the opening scene, a woman who was sexually harrassed by Bill Clinton is in a room where he denies having ever meeting her. She is visibly distressed and leaves the room. This episode demonstrates how Clinton's denial of having a sexual affair with Lewinsky psychologically destroys her. A former high school teacher of Lewinsky, who had an affair with her when she was a teenager publicly slut-shames her. S3E9: in the final scene, someone explains that a woman testified that Clinton raped her. Because she initially said that he did not, this claim is brushed aside and disqualified by all the characters. Throughout this episode, Lewinsky is asked to describe her sexual encounters with Clinton in details twice (the first time in public): she is visibly very distressed. S3E10: during an interview, a woman described how Clinton raped her. A woman who has sexually assaulted by Clinton and instrumentalized politically, is forced to do erotic/nude photos for money: she is shown being visibly distressed by this situation. Descriptions of the sexual encounters between Clinton and Lewinsky are made publicly available: Lewinsky is visibly distressed by that.
The Americans (TV Show)
During a flashback in the pilot episode, a woman is pinned down and raped. More generally, nearly every episode has sexual activity that lacks enthusiastic, fully informed consent. In many cases, it can be likened to reluctant sex work for the spies. The people they seduce do not know they are consenting to sex with a Russian agent and are unaware of the spies' underlying reasons for pursuing sex with them. The male and female lead were assigned to play the role of a married couple by the USSR. They were told to have sex and produce children. Early in their time together, they were not at all in love and only had sex because the job demanded it. During the series, their degree of romantic attachment to each other waxes and wanes. As spies, the main characters frequently seduce and have sex with others to gain access. This happens very frequently. The level of deception involved in these sex acts varies. Many sex-spying acts involve seducing a stranger for a one-night stand with few implicit or explicit promises to be broken. However, in a very long-running storyline, the male lead convinces a woman that he is in love with her and marries her, while already married to another woman. The purpose of this is to use her for information and access. She is tricked into betraying her country, losing her job, as well as risking her life and freedom. Sex is the weapon used to cause these harms, rather than being a harm in and of itself. The male lead meets with a young, attractive female informant. She is "assigned" to gather information from a foreign dignitary who chokes her to death during sex. To avoid law enforcement, she is cut unto pieces and carried out in suitcases. There is a threat to out a gay servicemember. To gain access to a computer system, the female lead tricks a married man into believing that he had sex with her and impregnated her. To maintain an information source, the male lead is directed to seduce a 15-year-old girl and maintain a sexual relationship with her. He begins to seduce her, but refuses to have sex with her, though he does maintain a boyfriend-like relationship with her. The spies often do not like having sex with strangers for access. This is their job and they are often resentful. They appear distressed at times. They also get jealous of each other. The male lead attends emotional encounter seminars which involve participants loudly expressing their feelings or sharing very personal information, including sexual fantasies. Some fantasies expressed are violent and/or non-consensual. The female lead is assigned to seduce a sexual sadist who beats her with a belt. The male lead is angry and wants to punish the sadist. The male and female leads role-play consensual sexual sadism with one another. The female lead lies that she was raped by a military servicemember to a low-level navy sailor to manipulate him. The spies frequently use sex as a source of blackmail material or in order to get blackmail material. The spies convince a young (but presumably adult) collaborator to drug and have sex with an aide to congress. There are flashback scenes to the spies learning how to seduce people as part of their spy training. We see the male lead initiating sex with (presumably) undesirable partners, including an elderly woman and a middle-aged man. He is clearly reluctant. In the final season, the spies' daughter (now an adult) has sex with a source to get information. The spies are extremely disturbed by this.
Anatomy of a Scandal (TV Show)
The series follows arape accusations from the rapist's perspective. S1E1: the episode opens with an on-screen rape, depicted as if the victim is enjoying it. After that, the accusation of the survivor is framed as insane and not credible S1E2: the rapist is depicted as being 'sucker-punched' by the accusation of his victim (03:30-04:30).
Animal Kingdom (TV Show)
SPOILERS: S1E9: for her safety, a woman initiates sex with a man she knows is in love with her. The said man follows her lead but is very cold and ends up killing her during the act by smothering her with a pillow. The scene is very violent.
Anthracite (TV Show)
It is repeatedly implied that a cult leader has sexual relationships with very young women, some of them probably minors. A man is raped on screen by a woman: the scene is long. In guise of a plot twist, it is revealed that a character was, in fact, killed by her brother because she was beginning to remember that he had abused her for years when she was young.
Babylon Berlin (TV Show)
A woman if frequently cat-called throughout the series. The show contains a gang-rape scene. S2E4: a man forces another man to perform oral sex on him after beating him with a metal rod.
Balthazar (TV Show)
The above-mentioned scenes occur in episodes 2 and 5 of season 1.
Banshee (TV Show)
Season 1: almost every episode features sex between a teenager and an almost 40 year-old man. S1E1: sexual harassment by a teacher of a child is mentioned. An incest joke is made. S1E3: the episode depicts a very violent rape scene. The scene starts off with consensual sex that escalates. S1E5: a woman is catcalled by a group of men. Later, she is assaulted and is nearly raped before the man is stopped. S1E6: a prisoner keeps other men as his sex slaves. He forces a character to give him head and 'ask for it' but a fight ensues and prevents it from occuring. S4E6: a female character is raped on her own bed on-screen.
Barracuda Queens (TV Show)
S1E3: one of the main characters (17 year old) is raped at a party. The scene only shows the beginning of the assault. A man keeps groping the teenager maid.
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (TV Show)
This film contains violent rapes scenes.
Big Little Lies (TV Show)
Abusive relationships are a major theme of the first season. The depictions of domestic violence vary in intensity throughout the seasons and occur in most episodes and rape is discussed and depicted in detail. S1E2: a character is raped on-screen following an altercation with her emotionally and physically abusive husband. S1E3: one woman grapples with the emotional implications of raising a son who was conceived when she was raped. This conflict is revealed partially through flashbacks to the rape itself.
Bitter Daisies (TV Show)
Season 1: a teenage girl is dragged from the street to a car by random guys, she manages to escape. Season 2: a child trafficking gang holds teenage girls and a little girl hostage in a basement. They take a girl away and the others hear her screams. In another scene, one of the girls is tied to a table and raped on a live show on the dark web while camera is in her face.
Black Bird (TV Show)
Detailed retellings of rape occur intermittently throughout the series (not necessarily graphic). Some of the victims are young girls.
Black Butler (TV Show)
S1E4: A child character is sexually propositioned by an adult man. The child is drugged, locked in a cage, and about to be sold on a black market before being rescued. The same episode includes a scene that seems to be implying sex between a child and an adult, but it's a fake-out; the scene is merely the adult putting the child in a corset. Both seasons of the anime heavily imply child sexual abuse and sex slavery in the backstories of the main characters. This is more graphically depicted in the latter half of Book of Circus through a series of flashbacks, and in Book of the Atlantic. In the manga, the main character, (who at the time is 10) is taken by a cult and gang raped: no nudity is seen, but it is obvious what is happening.
Black Lagoon (TV Show)
Underage twins (~10 years old) are in a traumatised state due to constant sexual abuse. These characters feature prominently in S2E1, S2E2, S2E3. S5E3: a woman recalls being raped by a police officer as a young girl. There is a brief but graphic flashback to the incident. Later in this episode, a young boy kisses a grown woman on the lips in a way which appears to have romantic/sexual overtones.
The Blacklist (TV Show)
Season 1: a woman finds out she has been married to a spy for her whole marriage. S1E2: there is talk about a character that helps fight against human and sex trafficking (19:00-19:40). It is also mentioned that a specific cartel known as the Eberhardt Cartel specializes in human trafficking. There are many pictures shown of the victims, each with bruises all over. It is mentioned that the survivors tell stories of torture and forced addiction. During a fundraiser, we see pictures of women that has the word “rescued” on them (23:30). Later, it is mentioned that a shipment that was being tracked went missing and that it contained 60 girls (24:30-24:45). A woman who was a victim of sex trafficking, tells her story (24:45-24:40). She mentions that she was kept in a 9-9 room and that she they forced addiction upon her. She also mentions that each victim is branded with a symbol that’s carved into them. It is later found out that the woman raising the fundraiser against human and sex trafficking is actually the largest distributor of enslave children (31:00-34:15). The fundraiser is a front for the Eberhardt Cartel, which she runs. Fortunately, the latest shipment of girls were rescued. S1E12: a man and a woman are kissing each other in a room, but the woman is drugged with something that puts her unconscious. (00:35-01-20) While no sexual assault happened, it could be triggering due to the resemblance. At 12:28-12:35, it is mentioned that a priest had molested 24 teenage boys. S1E13: it is mentioned that five different women were abducted and were impregnated some time during the abduction (14:55-15:18). The agency that is abducting the women and impregnating them are putting their babies up for adoption once they are born. At 22:30-23:10, it is found out that the women are kept in a coma for years, while giving birth multiple times. At 31:10-33:10, there are 22 different women, all in a coma, and most of them with large pregnant bellies. It is said that each victim’s eggs were taken, fertilized, then put back inside them. There does not seem to be any reference to rape or anything, but people might still find this triggering. S2E1: the past child sex abuse of a character is discused throughout the episode. Viewers are made to believe another character is going to be raped when she is forced onto a bed, but instead a photo of her face is taken (34:50-35:50). S2E12: a man reads from the Bible that a father should have intercourse with his daughters (02:08). Afterwards, he is seen to be getting married to a child in a wedding gown. At 4:35 to 4:45 it is mentioned that that church is part of a cult that is a cesspool of polygamy, doomsday paranoia, and ritualized elder and child abuse, although the abuse does not seem to be sexual in nature. At 33:10-33:20, a group of men/boys kidnap all the kids from the church with the intention of marrying them as it was prescribed in their law. S3E4: a character is stated to be responsible for aiding and facilitating the kidnap and rape of another character. S3E5: a character is dragged and pinned to a table by a group of men; it is implied that their intention is rape. S3E8: a male character is captured and a female character grabs something around his groin area which is a bag but in the moment could be seen as her grabbing his groin. S3E12: the plot of the story is about a group of religious people who were initially pedophiles, and who are trying to redeem themselves by going after and killing other pedophiles. Pedophilia and the victims of pedophilia are talked about throughout the episode. It is later found out that this group was being tricked by their leader to go after people who weren’t pedophiles, making fake pedophilic cases against them for his own agenda. S3E15: a programe that hacks into any webcam is leaked. It is mentioned that it can be used to watch people change, etc. A main character breaks into a woman's home without her knowing and she comes downstairs partially dressed. S3E21: an operative pretends to be into someone to gain intel and makes out with her while hacking her computer. S4E3: the main character discusses her husband initially tricking her into loving him and having sex, and how her mom also did that to someone. S4E6: a main character's girlfriend is revealed to be a spy. She was having sex with him, just to gain access to the FBI. S4E7: it is mentioned multiple times that a father married off her 14 year old daughter to a man 40 years older than her. A spy has to kiss and then fight off sex with a woman who is dating him. S4E10: a character discusses being found guilty of rape while he was at university (29:50). Another character discusses the use of child brides and mass rape as a means of control (11:00 and 28:30). S4E11: the boss of a character forcibly attempts to kiss another character. When she declines, she states that she must do as she says to keep her job. The victim complies but is saved by another character who leaves with the boss (26:50-27:50). Past assault is also implied. S4E14: it is briefly mentioned that a group of hackers compets for a job that leaves victims without a soul (04:27-04:32). One of those jobs that was used as an example involved child pornography. S4E15: a man keeps a woman hostage. She is sedated but he shows her a pregnancy test that is positive implying rape off screen. S5E10: a judge talks about how her 17 year old son assaulted a young woman and how she was complicit with the fact that the evidence of the rape kit went missing (30:40-30:56). S5E12: a priest is tempted by the lust so he kills the people who he thinks tempt him. Towards the end (33:10- 33:43), he goes into a woman’s home and grabs her while she is only in underwear. Hhe has urges towards her and is all around creepy. The scene could be considered sexual and trigger trauma in others. In the next scene, he has her wrapped up in plastic and is intending on killing her. He then takes off the plastic wrap that is covering her mouth and kisses her before pulling away with restraint and immediately slapping her across the face. She is visibly distressed throughout the encounter. S5E17: child brides and rape are discussed throughout the episode. A man is shown getting into bed with a teenage wife (14:00). Another former child bride talks abour her experiences (31:30). S6E18: there is a a couple mentions of a sexual harassment complaint between a professor and a university student. There were also rumors that he was sleeping with some of his students as well. It is said that the sexual harassment complaint was fake and that the rumors the professor was sleeping with multiple students were false. The professor did admit to sleeping with one of his students though. There is also a mention about a female that was a victim of a serial killer. It was said that the victim had semen inside her body from a man, who at the time was thought to be the serial killer. It’s later found out that the man who was suspected of being the serial killer was innocent and that what happened between them was consensual. S7E7: the main plot of revolves around men being forcibly impregnated. The criminal who’s doing it is a woman who was a victim of rape. She tried to abort her baby, but the law did not allow it, resulting in her giving birth to her child in prison. After she found out her rapist was released from prison, she kidnapped him and held him prisoner. As revenge, the woman used her rapist’s semen to forcibly impregnate powerful and political men who were against abortion, keeping them hostage until a baby’s heartbeat was detected and the abortion laws would not allow them to abort the baby. Towards the end of the episode, a man who was a victim of rape and being forcibly impregnated goes to a state where he can abort the baby. His last words for aborting the baby was that he was raped. S8E1: there is a brief mention of a 15 year old girl being ordered by her father to sleep with an adult..
The Bletchley Circle (TV Show)
All of season 1 follows a search for a serial rapist/murderer. S1E2: attempted rape. S1E3: a woman is held hostage by the aforementioned rapist/murderer. Season 2 revolves around human sex trafficking, and this is discussed in every episode. S2E3: a man violently grabs a woman and forces his hands up her skirt.
Blindspot (TV Show)
A main character investigates undercover in a sex trafficking situation. She does not get assaulted, but many rapes that took place are mentioned and her team is not really in control of the situation. Season 1 contains many PTSD related flashbacks that suggest child trafficking. S1E1: the episode begins with a woman, likely drugged, stuffed into a bag naked and held at gunpoint. A second scene shows the FBI taking down a man who has several women handcuffed, pregnant or just having had his babies. A third scene discusses more about the woman in the first scene. S1E3: the main character calls out how her entire life (and thus the plot of the show) is an intimate violation. S1E4: it is implied that one main character's dad was accused of being "too close" to the other main character as a child. The father was subsequently accused of kidnapping and murdering the main character as a child. S1E5+6: the main character is subject to sexual harassment by the main antagonists. S1E14: a violent rape and murder is discussed. Crime scene photos are shown. A main character investigates undercover in a sex trafficking situation. She does not get assaulted, but many rapes that took place are mentioned and her team is not really in control of the situation. (This episode contains no major overall plot points other than the main character wanting to quit the agency and her mission). S1E16: the main character (who is amnesiac) is kissed by her old boyfriend from before she lost her memory. She turns out to like it, but he did not ask first, and they were fighting. S1E17: a woman is sexually harassed at a bar: a main character saves her. A main character is kidnapped and her face is sensually rubbed. A reference to Buffalo Bill (from The Silence of the Lambs) is made as a joke. S1E18: sexual harrassment. This episode is about a school shooter motivated by the fact that his school coach is a serial child rapist. This triggers memories of snother main character who was abused as a child. S3E5: a tattoo leads to a case regarding untested rape kits, and uncovers a secret heir to royalty conceived by rape.
Blue Bloods (TV Show)
S1E2 + 3: rape is discussed. S1E6: a relationship between a high school teacher and a 17 year old student is discussed. S1E9: rape is implied and an attempted rape is shown on screen. S1E16: an adult pretends to be a teenager online to get into a relationship with a teenager.
Bom Dia, Verônica (TV Show)
Though the themes are dealt with in a very conscientious way, it is worthy of note that the entire series is about the investigation a web managed by sociopaths, that allows for all kinds of abuse, torture and people and drug trafficking.
Bones (TV) (TV Show)
There are several episodes where child abuse is discussed. These topics are discussed in a way that always condemns them and the perpetrators are always punished in some way (e.g. jail mostly). S1E3: multiple sex tapes involve high schoolers. One of the sex tapes involves an older lady and a male high schooler. His exact age is not mentioned, but his lawyer says that he is a victim of statutory rape. S1E5: this episode is about a young boy who was sexually assaulted and then murdered. S1E7: a man is suspected to having an affair with a 17 year old and later murdering her (18:00). It is confirmed by an FBI agent (21:30). Throughout the episode, the FBI and forensics team tries to find evidence that that the man did have an affair with the 17 year old and later killed her. The man was charged with statutory rape but he was not the murderer. S1E17: it is briefly mentioned that a female told her brother that she was raped (17:30-17:40). The FBI is just using this as an example that could be considered in the case. It is worth mentioning that this was just an example as to why a man died, there was not anything remotely relating to sexual assault in this episode. S1E19: a woman mentions that she requested a rape kit, due to her not having anything of the day before and being all bruised and bloody (5:20-5:26). It is found that there was not anything remotely relating sign of sexual activity, forced or otherwise. The same woman is the main suspect in a murder. She is told to take a plea deal, which involves her saying that someone tried to rape her and that it was just self defense (29:20-29:25). Once again, nothing sexual actually happened. S2E3: it is mentioned that a guy is a pervert with three solicitation of minor charges of girls which he admits (19:00-19:15). The FBI interrogates him and mentions that 3 girls said that they exchanged sex for sandwiches in the past six months (22:35-22:58). He denies these claims, saying that they were angry at him. Later, his wife says that she killed him because he was just using her to get to young girls for years (32:50-32:54). S2E4: it is said that a female murder victim had an affair with her golf coach (27:05-27:15). The golf coach originally suspected that he killed the murder victim, but his alibi was that he was having an affair with another one of his students at the time. It is not mentioned if the second student was underaged or not. S2E6: a woman mentions that the sex between a recently dead woman and a man might not have been consensual due to finding semen inside her (15:18-15:25). It is suspected that a man that has diplomatic immunity raped and murdered the dead woman, who is now thought to be a victim (20:40-20:55). All of this is dismissed as they found out that it was in fact consensual and that the sex was part of the reason as to why she died. S2E13: a murder victim is raped and killed after rejecting the sexual advances of a character who is charged for filming underage girls in a pornographic way and taking advantage of girls too drunk to consent (to film them). Two men notice what he did, but did not do anything about it. S8E16: this episode is about a teenage girl who was drugged and raped at a party. A witness discusses with her psychocologist that she felt like she had been rape. S10E6: he plot revolves around human trafficking. The victim of the episode was human trafficked to America, and in China, she has been sold into prostitution by her father. Throughout, the idea that the victim was sexually assaulted is discussed multiple times at length and in great detail.
Bonnie & Clyde (2013) (TV Show)
The main male character is raped by a fellow male inmate while incarcerated.
Bordertown (TV Show)
Rape and sexual violence are themes throughout the series. Young women (some of whom are underage) are drugged and posed for photos while naked (leading to the accidental death of one and the furter abuse of another). One story arc features a paedophile character who needs to prove that they haven't committed any new assaults (this features flashbacks of the paedophile sexually abusing another character when he was a child). Violence, both sexual and otherwise, is frequently shown on-screen.
The Borgias (TV Show)
Bosch (TV Show)
S1E1: someone is suspected of killing sex workers, and a murdered sex worker is mentioned. It is said that they are often "victimized". S1E5: photos found in a drawer strongly imply an incestuous relationship between a father and daughter (35:41). The daughter is in underwear, the father seen shirtless. The images are not explicit and are not shown for a long time onscreen.
Boston Legal (TV Show)
In most episodes, women are sexually harassed, groped, or objectified by two of the main characters for laughs. Once or twice, women report them for harassment, but nothing comes of it. S2E7: one of the lawyers is forced to defend a rapist who has AIDS. The defendant makes fun of his victim and says that she should be happy he killed her so she does not also have to deal with the disease he likely gave to her. S2E16: a teenager was raped and denied emergency contraception. The episode is about her dying the hospital that denied her.
The Boys (TV) (TV Show)
S1E1: a woman who starts a new job is welcomed by a male colleague (a recurring character) whom she confesses to having had a crush on when she was younger. He immediatly puts his pants and underwear off without warning her and asks her to perform oral sex on him. When she rebuffs him, he blackmails her and threats to have her fired. It is then strongly implied that she was forced to accept as she is shown vomiting in the toilet. The incident is vaguely discussed later in the episode and in the next one. A man who can turns invisible uses his power to spy on women going to the bathroom: this is referred to in later episodes. S1E2: two men attempt to (date) rape a woman in an alley, but they are stopped by a female character. The character who fought off the would be rapists is later chastised by her employer because someone recorded her and made her secret identity more prominent. A man uses his abilty to see through the walls to spy on his female boss using a breast pump: he is shown visibly aroused. S1E3: a female character is forced to wear a sexualized costume that she feels uncomfortable with, and pressured to accept it as a "feminist" choice. She is later catcalled while wearing it by men. A group of men watch a live video footage of a woman seducing a visibly uncomfortable man at her home, and forcing him to perform oral sex on her while she is on drugs: she ends up killing him. The main antagonist acts threateningly with his ex-girlfriend while talking about their past relationship. The protagonists hack into the camera in the smart tv in a female character’s apartment without her knowledge or consent. The purpose is to find intel on a superhero she is dating, but they do watch her having sex with that superhero. S1E5: the survivor of the rape from S1E1 mentions it in front of a crowd. The woman the antagonist was spying on in S1E2 is revealed to have a security feature informing her when he is watching. She uses his sexual attraction to her in order to control him. S1E6: the rape from S1E1 is mentioned several times throughout the episode. The rapist has to make a public excuse (scripted by the firm) and a film/show based on the survivor's experience is produced. It is revealed that a main character's motivating factor is the rape of his wife by the series' antagonist. This is discussed heavily throughout the series. S1E7: the rapist from S1E1 gets sexually assaulted on-screen by a woman. Scenes before and after the rape of a main's character's wife are briefly shown. It is then revealed that she became pregnant with her rapist child, and died while giving birth. S1E8: the rape of the main character's wife by the antagonist is discussed. Throughout seasons 2 and 3, the rapist from S1E1 goes through a (fake) redemptive arc, and tries to make amends for his actions in order to get his job back. Sexual assault is thus implied or mentioned in several episodes. S2E1-3+7-8: the antagonist regularly visits the woman he raped and got pregnant, to connect with their son despite her clear disconfort and protest. S2E2: the rapist from S1E1 experiences an introspective moment making him realize that he 'violates women's bodies' because he cannot accept his own. S2E3: the rapist from S1E1 makes amends for his behaviour to his victim in order to regain his job: she rebuffs him. S2E4: a main male character tries to kiss a recurring female character when she is vulnerable. She rebuffs him. The rape of a female character by the antagonist is mentioned. S2E5: the rapes committed by two recurring male characters are mentioned. S2E8: the sexual assault from S1E1 is mentioned. S3E1: two characters have sex in public bathrooms, and at some point, the reaction of the man makes it dubious that he is enjoying how rough it gets. In the opening of the episode, a man is accidently killed by someone (with the superpower to shrink) who entered his urethra with his consent for sexual purposes. It is mentioned that the main characters are often involved in situations with "dead prostitutes". S3E2: the fact that one male character was molestd by another male character when he was a teenager is mentioned several times. The victim denies it happened. S3E3: in the opening of the episode, the antagonist is naked and his female superior walks into his room. He tells her not to mind and to go along, despite her clear uncomfort, especially when he has an erection. The rapist from S1E1 gains his job back, meaning the survivor (the main female character) has to work with him. A woman forces a man to speak by crushing his testicles with her knee. A man hits on a woman despite her clear disinterest: she rebuffs him. At the end of the episode, the antagonist forces the main female character to pretend she is his girlfriend in public. S3E4: at two different moments in the episode, the antagonist makes inappropriate comments to women. One main female character is forced to pretend to be a prostitute in order to kill a man. We see other women already with him in the room. She kills him before anything happens. S3E5: one character mentions an 'underage prostitute' (implying he may have had sex with one when he was younger). S3E6: One character coming from the 1980s makes elogious comments about Bill Cosby. A female character mentions that her political adversaries made deepfakes videos of her giving oral sex to Usama Bin Laden. The last part of the episode takes place at an orgy: - the main cast is visibly uncomfortable to be there; - two characters are greeted by the giant penis of a man; - one man accidentally receives semen on his body against his will; - the rapist from S1E1 has sex with an octopus: the female lead takes a picture of him against his will.; - it is discussed that the host of the orgy put a camera in the toilet to film his guests' genitalia without their consent (footage of a man's private parts is shown). S3E7: flashbacks show how one of the main male character was abused by his violent father when he was a child. The rapist from S1E1 pressures his wife to have a threesome with an octupus. He gets angry when she leaves after having tried to go along with it. S3E8: it is reminded that one character had sex with an octopus, and that the antagonist raped a woman. S4E1: a woman is non-consensually sent an explicit photo of an anus under the guise that it is something she has requested to see. S4E4: a man mentions that when he was a young teen, he was caught masturbating by an older man, and subsequently the older man gave him a related nickname in order to sexually humiliate the child. A man is forced to masturbate in front of a group of people, under threat of injury and/or death. He is taunted while he does this, and later grievously injured and then killed for his perceived "failure to perform". There is a brief mention of an unnamed young teen runaway being used by a company to incubate a baby. She did not survive the birth, and was likely coerced into the entire situation given her vulnerable status. S4E4: an inappropriate reltionship between an adult woman and a young boy is discussed (around 27 minutes in). S4E6: while pretending to be somebody else, a character has to partake in various BDSM activities to avoid blowing his cover. The scene is played humourously but the character is clearly distressed by the situation. Later, when the character has his cover blown, another character threatens to injure him and sexually assault him via his wounds: they are interrupted before this can happen, but we do see the character restrained and struggling while his attacker prepares to assault him. This particular scene is very vivid and distressing, played far more seriously than the previous scenes. S4E7-8: a man is tricked into having sex by a memory reading shapeshifter who pretends to be his fiance. The incident is treated in a humorous way, with the man's fiance scolding him for having sex with the imposter "20 times".
Breaking Bad (TV Show)
S2E1: a character forcefully attempts to initiate sex with his wife. He stops after she screams for him to stop. S2E7: sexual harassment is mentioned in details (30:00-30:33). S4E3: a man finds his house filled with people high on drugs, dancing, fighting and two are in the middle of having sex (21:59-22:54). The woman is probably high on drugs, but she is not catatonic or paralysed, she is fully awake, thus capable of giving consent: she scratched the man's back, impliying rough sex. The scene is intended to be disturbing, with people doing drugs, fighting and having sex in public, but there is no evidence of sexual assault. S5E2: it is implied at the end of the episode that a character engages in sexual activity with his wife and that she is too afraid of him to refuse to comply (44:03-46:27).
Bride Killa (TV Show)
Broadchurch (TV Show)
Rape is a recurring theme throughout the entire show. Some men discuss the drugging of a woman with the intention of raping her. There is one instance where a woman tell others that she is willing to have men rape her to get her son back. In various instances, married men are shown engaging in sexual acts with teenagers. A woman discusses how her husband used to regularly rape their daughter. In another instance, a man confesses his 'love' for an 11-year-old boy. In season 1, a 15 year old girl says her relationship with her 17 year old boyfriend includes sex. S1E4: an old male character is revealed to have a conviction for “underage sex.” It turns out that when he was 38, he was the music teacher of a 15yr old girl and slept with her. A past case is mentioned where a 10yr old girl was raped and stabbed. One woman threatens another woman by saying she can get men to rape her S2E4: a woman is assaulted (choked) against a wall by a man. She begins to undo his belt and take off his pants in the hope that he will let her survive if she performs sexual favors. Season 3: the crimes of a serial rapist are a major plot-point throughout the season.
Brotherhood (TV Show)
A rival gang member comes in to intimidate a main character by raping a member of his crew, warning the same will happen to him if he does not do what was asked (42:00-43:00). The rapist holds his victim against a sink, demanding he be quiet if he does not want to be shivved, then inserts himself while his victim clearly tries not to yell out and remain "strong".
Bull (TV Show)
The series is about a trial consultant firm representing defendants, so there are several episodes discussing rape, child abuse, and episodes showing the beginning and aftermath of rape. S1E3: the episode involves the defense of a survivor of sexual assault from a murder charge. Her assault is never discussed in detail, but it is the premise of the episode. S1E11: the episode revolves around a sexual relationship between a teacher and a student and the court case litigating it. The relationship is not discussed explicitly, nor is it shown explicitly S2E11: this episode is about a 16 year old child being preyed upon by a 35 year old man who is an abusive pedophile who rapes and tortures her while keeping her captive for over a year. S2E20: the beginning of the episode shows a woman trying to escape from her abusive husband, being caught, and raped off screen. It shows him throwing her on the bed, taking off her clothes, and then the aftermath where she has bruises on her face. The rest of the episode is her on trial for her murder and talking about how he abused her.
Burden of Truth (TV Show)
A character is revealed to have had a sexual relationship with a underage girl: she ends up pregnant and raising her child.
Cafe Minamdang (TV Show)
Major plotlines in this show are about sex trafficking and other sex crimes. It is never graphic, but violence against women and girls is central (including at least one woman being the victim of a serial killer). All of the main protagonists are disgusted by violence against women and are hunting down the perpetrators. Teenage girls are being trafficked to older men. A teenage girl dies while she is being raped, presumably as the result of drugs. We see small sections of a video of this. The video mostly concerns the death and the coverup, and not much else is shown. Young women are forced to do sexual streams for drugs. We see a very brief clip of a woman dancing provocatively in one of these streams. We also see this woman being beaten. A teenage girl is forced to strip in front of a group of adults. We see sections of a video of this so that the characters can try to identify the adults in the room. There is no nudity shown. Discussion of a child being raped as the motivation for murder.
Captive Audience (TV Show)
Carnival Row (TV Show)
S1E1: this episode contains frequent sexually denigrating comments about the fae creatures. Much brutality is shown, closing descriptions of assaults where sexual slurs are used. S1E2: attempted rape (26:30-27:13). S1E3: fae are referred to in sexually derogatory terms. One character has their fairy wings non consensually removed as a baby. A character convinces her best friend's great love to lie and say that that he is dead. S1E4: an inspector visits a witch for a spell and she insists that she needs his "seed" to complete the ritual. She suddenly blows smoke into his face that drugs him and makes him see his love interest instead of the witch. They make out and she pushes him onto the table and he passes out (around the 27 minute mark). When he awakens he has to tuck "himself" back into his pants. S1E8: it is revealed that someone has been having sex with their sibling without knowing she was his sister. A woman's brother watches her have sex without her knowledge. He then breaks into the house, threatening her and her lover at gunpoint.
The Chestnut Man (TV Show)
S1E3: a voice over directs a child to undress and there are evidence of long term sexual abuse by a parent on a step child. Sexual abuse and child neglect is an over arching theme in the show.
Claws (2017) (TV Show)
Cold Case (TV Show)
S1E1: a man calls a woman a slut, tells her to shut up and then kills her. S1E2: this episode is about a femicide committed by a controlling and possesive husband. A husband speaks against her wife, who is testifying in court against a man who showed himself naked to her. S1E3: this episode is about a serial rapist. It is mentioned that a killer (male) raped the victim before killing her. Some details of the crime are mentioned. A scene after the rape between the rapist and the victim is shown. A man attacks a woman in her home. Before this flashback she mentions to a detective that she was raped that evening. S1E4: it is mentioned that a wife was violent towards her husband. S1E5: a female detective walks into a tavern with cops and gets whistled at. One cop asks another man if his wife knows he has a date as a joke (it was not a date). One man harasses a married woman, says she should "pay" for the "wrong behavior" of her husband (asking for a better pay) by offering him sexual services. After she declined, he says to another woman who was with her she should "pay". It is mentioned he sexually abused herand forced to lick his boots. In one scene he forces the married woman to lick his boots by threatening her husband with a gun. S1E13: there is a gang-rape scene at the end of the episode. S1E22: this episode is about a man grooming several minors and this man being sexually violent towards them. One of the victims told an officer about this who dismisses the child and asks him if he, the victim, is gay. A police team found about this while investigating the murder of the mentioned sexual perpetrator. S1E23: this episode is the case of a female teenager who was raped and killed. S2E9: an attempted rape is mentioned. S2E10: crime investigation of rape is mentioned. A woman is murdered in a park. S2E16: the sexual abuse of two minors, the creation of child pornography and the rape of a 18-year old woman are discussed. S2E17: a man asks a woman to pay in sexual work while touching a part of her blouse. She denies and he accepts. S2E18: in a bar, fraternity men want to have sex with a woman. She does not want to and they all grab her on the table. A female police officer who was there rescues this woman out of this situation. S4E1: a young girl is gang-raped in a storeroom at a local mall. A mall employee tries to intervene, but is held back by some of the rapists as other boys take their turns grabbing at the girl and cheering on their fellow rapists to do more while she screams for them to stop. SPOILERS: it is later revealed that in a desperate means of taking control back, she volunteers to be the camerawoman for a pair of mass shooters at the mall (inspired by the Columbine killers), and is arrested at the end of the episode for her participation in the killings without being offered leniency given her mental state and trauma at the time. S4E2, 6, 7: a main character's brother is revealed to have been assaulted by his coach when he was a child. He is then pushed to admit that he was assaulted and begins to have nightmares about the events (not shown on screen). S5E10: one of the characters turns out to be a college campus serial rapist.
Collateral (2018) (TV Show)
The Continental (TV Show)
S1E2: rape is mentioned briefly, no threat of sexual violence is made towards any characters. It is an off-hand comment. S1E2: a pedophile attempts to lure a young boy into the bushes of a playpark. The boy shakes his head and runs away. The paedophile is unsuccessful in his attempt.
Control Z (TV Show)
The show features a relationship between a female student and her female teacher. S1E1: it is revealed that a teenage boy got herpes from his cousin (2:35-2:50). S1E8: an attempted rape takes place during a party scene. S2E2: a girl wakes up naked and tied up and discovers that she was drugged. No assault happened.
Conversations With a Killer: the John Wayne Gacy Tapes (TV Show)
To Cook a Bear (TV Show)
The show is about a preacher who arrives in a swedish village. Not long after his arrival, girls from the village start going missing. The girls are raped before being murdered, and although theres only mere glimpses of their struggle, i would say its quite violent and upsetting how the show handles the topic. S1E1: a girl goes missing and is later found dead in a swamp by two of the main characters. from the clues found by the preacher and his son, its obvious that shes been raped and murdered, yet the village authorities blame a bear for her death. the girl is also described as being a whore by her mother and other villagers for sleeping with the local shopowner. It is revealed in a later episode that the arragement was forced and non-consensual. The preacher tells his son to sit on a stack of hay and proceeds to jump on top of him and restrain him to prove the point that there had been two people laying on top of the hay where they had been looking for clues. implying that the girl was likely raped and killed there. Later, a strange painter appears in the village and visits the preacher and his family in their home. he starts describing the dead girl in a weird manner while giving the preachers daughter a gross stare seemingly making her uncomfortable. S1E2: the preacher and his son examine the body of the girl from S1E1. At one point the preacher lifts up her skirt to look at her genitals and finds that shes been bleeding from her vagina. Later the local police enters the room and handles her dead body in a disrespectful manner totally glossing over the signs that indicate that she was attacked by a man and not a bear. A flashback from one of the male main characters' childhood shows his drunken alchoholic mother pulls out her breast for him to drink of. As he comes closer she forces his head on her breast in a violent manner. the child is clearly above breastfeeding age and looks to be around 6-10 years old. The preachers son spies on one of the village girls milking a cow: there is a lot of emphasis on the cows udders as its being milked by the girl. He later attends a party in the village. the painter shows up and in a later conversation with the son, he describes the village girls as cute and judges the son for being a virgin, then going on to say that the best vaginas are "wet and tight" S1E3: another girl goes missing and is found by her female friend covered in blood. While resting in her bed at home the policeman comes to question her and touches her, causing her to start panicking. The policeman tries to restrain her and gets upset with her. She is visibly distressed during the rest of the policeman and preachers visit. The preacher and his son goes to examine her skirt and find both semen and blood on it. The girl later tells her friend and the preacher that she was indeed attacked and raped by a man. The girl's friend tells the preacher that the first girl didnt want to sleep with the shopkeeper but did it because he was threatening to take her familys home due to her fathers debt. It is also shown that the girls friend had sex with the painter. The preacher invites his son to join him in the sauna, but he declines. seemingly not wanting to be seen naked by his father. This makes the preacher suspiscious that he could be the killer and is hiding a wound given by the surviving girl. He later forces his son to undress that part of his body to prove that hes innocent, which makes his son very upset and uncomfortable. S1E4: a man and a woman are having aggressive sex and when the woman asks him to stop, but he doesnt listen to her and keeps going for a few more seconds before eventually stopping. The painter talks to the girl he had sex with mentioning the night they did it and inviting her to his house to paint her. She asks him to leave but he does not. The girl visits him and he his touching her face sensually but they start fighting as she realizes he does not love her and only wants her body. He attacks her by choking her but she is able to escape.
Crime Stories: India Detectves (TV Show)
S1E2 "Body In A Bag": a police officer mentions that a man was in jail for pedophilia. S1E3 "Dying For Protection": asex worker recounts being trafficked when she was younger. In another scene towards the end, a police officer recounts how a different sex worker's customer refused a condom and proceeded to attack and murder her. S1E4 "The Stolen Baby": mentions of child trafficking throughout. With the case never being solved, the child's fate is unknown.
Criminal Minds (TV Show)
The show is a crime procedural and, as a result, goes into detail regarding incidents of sexual violence (and pedophilia) on many occasions. One plotline involves a main character who must repeatedly confront a man who once molested him, along with many other pre-pubescent boys. S1E12: a child is abducted by a pedofile. Child sexual abuse is mentioned, as well as childporn. At one point they find a videotape which is not shown but the audio indicates the predator threatening a child he molested. The child is found alive, it is unknown whether or not she was raped. S1E13: a girl describes being violently raped by her boyfriend after being drugged. S2E3: parents are sent a video of their daughter being raped in the first few minutes of the episode. S2E5: a serial rapist ist caught. However, the victims offer insight into the hardships faced by victims of assault and as a result, he may hit home. S2E12: one of the main characters is revealed to have been molested by his football coach, who was a father figure to him for a time, during his childhood. The man who hurt him has also hurt many other young boys. He has to confront this man later in the episode. This topic is handled relatively sensitively. S4E7: a main character believes his father raped and murdered his childhood friend when the main character was four years old and the friend was six. The main character goes to hypnotherapy to try to remember the time of the murder, and while there he becomes distressed by a memory of his father coming into his room and telling him that he loves him. He also remembers seeing his father burning clothes that had blood on them. The main character becomes convinced that his father did assault and kill his friend, and goes to confront him along with two other main characters. Over the course of the episode it becomes clear that the main character's father was not involved in the child's death and assault, but helped to cover up the murder of the man who was actually responsible. The main character stays convinced of his father's involvement until there is irrefutable evidence otherwise. Despite all of this, it is implied that the memory which distressed him during hypnotherapy was not a memory of abuse. S4E20: a person with dissociative identity disorder has a protector alter who rapes a man who reminds her of his father who abused his mother and then himself as a child (no images). S5E1: a man is physically assaulted (stabbed repeatedly) in a scene with sexual overtones (the assaulter mentions sex explicitly while stabbing him, after removing his own shirt). There is an implication that this ends with rape, but it is extremely ambiguous and never confirmed one way or another. S8E12: a main character's girlfriend is abducted by her stalker, a woman who is obsessed with the main character and jealous of the girlfriend. While attempting to save his girlfriend, the main character allows the stalker to kiss and grope him, but he has trouble pretending to be into it which angers the stalker. Similar occurrences of non-consensual kissing and/or groping happen with this specific main character many times throughout the series, and he is visibly upset by it, but none of his trauma is ever addressed. S8E18: the man from S2E12 has to confront the man who sexually abused him. He has to shake the hand of this man at one point. The details surrounding his sexual abuse are discussed, but there are no graphic descriptions of the act itself. Once again, the topic is handled relatively sensitively. Several episodes features serial rapists, who sometimes seeks to impregnate their victims. One of them kills herself because she is pregnant. Another episode involves a woman who was raped and becomes a serial killer (narrative of victim blaming). Seasons 11-15: a recurring female character is a serial killer obsessed with one of the main characters. In later seasons there are multiple episodes where she kisses and gropes him without his consent. At one point it is revealed he believes she had drugged and raped him years prior, which she denies, but the truth is never actually told to the audience (i.e., it ie unknown whether she actually raped him and was gaslighting him or if she was truthful in her denial and he was mistaken.) After she denies that she raped him, the main character is shown to be very angry and upset, although he never talks about it. In the same episode where she denies raping him, she manipulates him into taking her on a "date", forces him to dance with her intimately (not the first time she has done so), and later he kisses her consensually in an effort to manipulate her back.
Cross (TV Show)
S1E3: this episode mentions child rape. Nothing is shown on camera.
The Crowded Room (TV Show)
S1E3: a main character is the victim of rape: this ties into a major plot line. A man tries to force a teenager to perform oral sex on him at gunpoint. The teen is saved, but the scene is very tense and comes close. S1E5: a male adult character touches a young boy inappropriately. This is interrupted by another male adult character (32:05-33:04). A male adult character takes a young boy into a barn and it is implied that he rapes him. This is a major plotline in the series (37:25-39:59).
Cruel Summer (TV Show)
The plot of the show hinges around the abduction and imprisonment of a teenager by her high school's assistant principal, and the aftermath of her rescue S1E2: the character's mother says that she was "violated" by her abductor S1E5: the character's therapist specifically describes what happened to her as grooming. S1E9: the entire episode explicitly details the abusive relationship between a teenager girl and her groomer before he became her captor. The show is not in chronological order and many scenes depict the build-up to her abduction and/or show her in captivity. These scenes may be triggering for victims of grooming.
Dare Me (TV Show)
Worthy of note: Throughout the entire show, there is sexual tension between a high school cheerleader and her adult female coach. A high school girl’s rapist regularly appears at her school as a military recruiter. There is heavy imagery of PTSD flashbacks relating to sexual assault, rape, abuse, and death. The show was cancelled before any answers about the sexual assault were given and the rapist was accused. S1E1: 2 teenage girls drive to their coach’s house and watch her in her living room. One girl thinks her friend has a crush on the coach so she yells “someone out here wants to fuck you”. The coach spots them outside of her house and they drive away. A high school girl gets the business card of a man in the military with intentions on getting his number. They bat eyes at each other in a flirtatious way. A high school girl sends a photo of her breasts to the same man later in the episode. After underage drinking, A teenage boy and girl are making out. He tries to force her head down as a way to signal for her to give him head. She pushes his arm away and gets offended but then continues making out with him and he goes down on her consensually. The two girls later both watch their coach have sex with the military man in a car. S1E2: 2 teenage girls go to a bar and they bring men home with them. A girl dances seductively for a man on her kitchen counters and the other girl is seen making out with the man she brought home. S1E3: a girl makes a joke about necrophelia 3 high school girls go to a Marine’s hotel party and dance, drink, and party with grown men. Other high school girls show up visibly uncomfortable surrounded by grown men. The girls are let into the party while the men are told to go away. A man forces them to give up their phones to get into the party. A man asks another man if the girls that came in are even 16 years old and says that it will look really bad if they’re caught. The guy responds and says no one will know since they took the girls’ phones. A girl finds her friend passed out and intoxicated in the back of a car. She asks if she was roofied or raped and there is no clear answer given. It is implied that she was raped because her tongue was bitten to the point that she was bleeding out of her mouth and her lipstick was smeared all over her face. S1E5: the girl with the bloody tongue from the last episode is seen talking to one of the marines from the party. We hear him say “I didn’t mean to” implying he was the one that hurt her. Her friend sees them taking and asks her again if he was raped. She says “nothing happened”. The episode flashes back to the morning that the girl woke up and remembered what happened. She finds marks on her body and cries. The man texts her and sends messages that imply something happened to her and asks if she wants to have sex again. She repeatedly grabs at her neck this episode because her necklace is missing and she has strangulation marks. She messages her rapist and asks if he can look for her missing necklace. She sees him the next day at her school and asks if he found her necklace. He says no and tries to corner her to talk to him about what happened stating that he doesn’t remember. He asks her why she’s being so weird and she repeatedly tries to move away from him. She has a panic attack at a pep rally but is forced to deal with it on her own because another girl was severely injured and no one noticed her. S E6: a girl has regular panic attacks and works her way through coping with the experience of being raped. She has a dream about him gripping her thighs with blood coming out of his mouth. A man stalks the woman he is having an affair with by sitting outside of her house. He shows up at her house drunk and stands in her baby’s nursery. A girl walks in on her coach showering and watches her for a minute. The same girl later watches 2 adults have sex through a crack in the door. S1E8: a woman comes back to her hotel to room to find her stalker whom she was currently having an affair with dead. He was texting her non stop and kept harassing her. He threatened to kill himself if they couldn’t be together. S1E10: a girl confronts her rapist and shows him the pictures she took of her bitten and bloody tongue.
Dark (TV Show)
A pre-teen/teenage girl witnesses two other young adults about to have consensual sex and later lies to the police and tells them she saw the man raping the woman. The false rape charges are mentioned briefly in other episodes. S3E5: an attempted rape of a young teen by an adult is shown on-screen (30:40-37:30). Worthy of note: two teenagers romantically interested in each other turn out to be related without knowing it.
In the Dark (TV) (TV Show)
In season 1 and part of season 2, the main character falls in love with a cop who has murdered her friend. He non consensually jacks off into her panties. It is also discussed that he rapes teenage girls he arrests. In season 2, the main character has sex with a man while lying to him about having killed a drug dealer who she has been coerced to work for. While she was not at fault for having to work for the drug dealer, and the killer was in self defense, she uses sexual chemistry to make the guy believe she did not do it. S2E9: a drug dealer forces the main character to take her clothes off in front of him, ostensibly to prove that she is not wearing a recording device, though he does not make her male friend strip. It is implied that he is more interested in seeing her body than making sure she is not wearing a microphone. S3E2: the main character discusses buying tequila so she can get her ex-boyfriend drunk and have sex with him. Two main characters have a thressome with a woman after giving her alcohol, to keep her from exposing them as criminals. She is portrayed as enjoying the threesome, while the two other character feel awkward about it. S3E12: a man has kidnapped his niece and has been raping her since she was a teenager. In season 4, a character cheats and then has sex with his girlfriend without telling her (possibly exposing her to STIs). S4E8: this episode features a serial date rapist. S4E10: a woman's ex-boyfriend sexually assaults her. S4E11+12: these episodes involve a woman flirting with a man and kissing him to set him up for drug charges.
Dark Winds (TV Show)
There is a brief reference to a man possessing inappropriate pictures of children. There is also a brief reference to possible child sex trafficking. A woman talks about a doctor having sterilized her without consent. A young teenage girl is pregnant due to statutory rape from her mother’s boyfriend, it is never discussed in detail.
Dateline NBC (TV Show)
Although primarily a show about true life murder cases, a significant proportion of episodes (perhaps close to 50%) cover cases which include rapes and sexual assaults, often described in detail. Most cases involve young women, but have also included incest and child victims.
DCI Banks (TV Show)
Deadly Class (TV Show)
It is implied that a character was sexually exploited in organized crime as a child.
Deadwood (TV Show)
S1E1: a sex worker is seen bruised after a client beat her off-screen. Her pimp later threatens her. S1E7: a woman is sexually assaulted by having her crotch grabbed. A teenage girl considers working at a brothel and is leered at by an older man. S1E8: there is a reference to assault in previous episode. A teenage girl and an older woman share a bed in suggestive manner though it is never stated what happened that night. S1E9: a man crudely accuses another of being a pedophile, which seems untrue. S1E11: there is a lengthy scene of fellatio where a man speaks to a sex worker in a degrading manner. S1E12: there is a discreet implication a woman's father may be abusive, another woman describes being sex trafficked by her father. S2E1: a man boasts about a woman being trafficked when she was fourteen. S2E5: a sex worker describes being beaten by a violent client. S2E6: multiple women are seen in poor conditions in a crate. Itt is apparent that they have been sex trafficked. In a disturbing scene, a violent man kills two sex workers at a brothel by cutting their throats, one offscreen and one on-screen.
Death Note (TV Show)
S1E1: a group of men on motorcycles attempt to rape a girl when she is walking down the street at night. S1E5+E33: older men try to take advantage of younger girls (a group of men harass a girl in the street and an older man feels up a young girls skirt on the train). These acts never last long and violence is not particularly shown.
Death in Paradise (TV Show)
S3E1: a brief attempted rape takes place in a kitchen. S10E1: an attempted rape takes place in a car.
The Defenders (TV Show)
Delhi Crime (TV Show)
This series follows a task force for the pursuit of justice for crimes against women including rape and trafficking. As such, many conversations are had on this topic and there are many scenes depicting various crimes. The show handles the topics with an informed approach and do not use scenes of extended graphic violence. That being said the topics being dealt with may be triggering for some. Season 1 deals with a fictionalized account of the Nirbhaya case that closely follows the real events. Season 3 follows a sex trafficking ring that closely follows the reality of how these situations play out.
Detective Conan (Case Closed) (TV Show)
A character looks under a girls skirt multiple times. One of the characters grabs and harasses younger women. In several episodes adult men hit on the underage female protagonist and her underage friend under the guise of humor. SPOILERS: Two characters are revealed to be cousins when they were dating but they did not know. Also multiple cases involving cousin/sibling marriage One of the kidnappers attempt to/ strongly implied to want to rape the female protagonist's mom.
Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (TV Show)
The series revolves around the crime of real-life serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of rape, torture, and murder of teenage boys and young men. References of rape are made throughout the show, though no actual act occurs on-screen. S1E4: a flashback shows a morgue staff naked, embracing with a man's corpse. Another scene has a man playing pornographic films for a group of teenage boys. S1E5: a young man is pressured by investigators to confess that he was raped by another man. S1E6: a man initiates the idea of oral sex to an uncomfortable boy. The scene cuts away without showing anything further. Another scene shows a man attempting to rape a handcuffed boy but abruptly stopping, letting the youth free momentarily. The man again approached him with a rope and hammer as the scene cuts to black, implying rape and murder. S1E7: two separate, brief flashbacks recount the events following the kidnapping, rape and torture of two men.
Devils' Line (TV Show)
Dexter (TV Show)
In season one, a male character is a rape survivor. S1E1: early in the episode a pastor is revealed to have raped and killed numerous young boys. Also early in the episode, the main character views a website which displays a violent rape on-screen. This clip is roughly 10 seconds long. This is not relevant to the overarching plot but, although brief, may be disturbing to some viewers. The character Rita is also a survivor of an abusive domestic relationship. The main character is seen masturbatins and making the rapist watch. S1E3: several main characters joke about a sex move that amounts to assault (riding a woman like a bronco while she is trying to buck the man off). It is presented as legitimate. One male character says that he murdered someone because they assaulted him: the protagonist lets him live because of it. S1E9: the ex husband of a main character threatens her and their children. To appease him, she baits him with sexual favors, only for him to try and violently rape her. She stops him, beating him with a baseball bat before retrieving her kids and escaping out the front door. S2E11: a character drugs herself in order to frame another character of rape to manipulate someone to be in a relationship with them (she frames him for sexual assault). S4E1: a killer gets in a bathtub naked with his naked female victim to kill her. No actual rape occurs, but it could be triggering as she is weeping and begging him not to hurt her. Season 5: the main villains are a group of serial rapists (there are flashbacks in almost every episode). There is a description of a rape by their first victim and while the police is investigating, there is a board with pictures of the victims and frames of the videos. S5E3: a character is introduced as a survivor of rape. The impacts of this trauma are made clear in the way she reacts when faced with large groups of men or when she is touched. S5E9: the police finds DVDs that contain recordings of all the women the group raped, and they show parts of those images, as well as a lot of screaming by the victims, in almost every following episode of the season.
Dexter: Original Sin (TV Show)
A high school girl (her age unspecified, although it seems she is 16-18) has a relationship with an adult man (age also unspecified but seems to be early to mid 20’s). S1E1: at a college party a young woman gets drunk. Her brother finds her passed out in a locked room, half dressed with a boy - also half dressed - on top of her (16:05-16:25). The protagonist pulls the boy off before he can rape her. After, the girl asks "did he..." and the answer is no.
Dexter: Resurrection (TV Show)
S1E1: a girl is brought to a man's hotel room drunk and nearly unconscious. One of the main characters helps the man carry her up, but he is shown to be uncomfortable with it. He drops them off at their hotel room and leaves. He returns when he hears the girl yell out to stop. He stops the man from raping her through physical violence. S1E3+4: rape is mentioned. S1E5: a female character tricks a man into coming home with her under the ruse of a consensual sexual encounter. Once they arrive, she hits him, incapacitates him, then straps him to a piece of erotic furniture before attempting to torture him. S1E7: a video is shown of a man stalking a woman before he tricks her into helping him by faking an injury. the video ends with the man strangling her to death and cutting off her hair.
D.I. Ray (TV Show)
Discussions of human trafficking occur in both season 1 and 2. Towards the end of season 1, a man is blackmailed with a video of him sleeping with an underage sex worker. In the last two episodes of season 1, a main character is in (non-sexual) physical danger from her fiance on-screen In season 2, a young child is trafficked, and it is discussed that it could be for sexual exploitation. A female character finds text messages sent to a group chat of her coworkers in which she is the target of harassment based on both gender and race. At the end of season 2 it is revealed that a teenage girl and her cousin were being sexually abused by their grandfather, and a flashback shows him threatening them, though the abuse is not shown. Across all mentions, the show handles issues respectfully and seriously, with a focus on how the survivors are affected by the trauma.
Dorohedoro (TV Show)
In this show, an underage girl is shown half naked in multiple scenes. Her breasts are exposed around adult men and women who do not cover her up. S1E2: Some male bandits corner a woman and demand that she hands over her belongings and her clothes. The woman immediately overpowers her attackers and leaves. S1E4: an adult man lures an underaged girl to a secluded place and plies her with alcohol, but she kills him before we find out what his intentions were.
Dublin Murders (TV Show)
S1E5: gang-rape. The following episodes contains flashbacks of it.
Durarara!! (TV Show)
One of the main characters (16) is constantly sexually harrased by one of the teachers. The latter is a pedophile who also engaged in a relationship with another highschool student. The character is frequently cat-called or lusted by other characters due to her large breasts (altough this is most played for comedy). Two sisters are very fond of each other to the point where they seem to have a somewhat romantic relantionship. There is more than one scene of them kissing each other (this is also played mostly for laughs and to add quirkiness to the characters but can be unsettling to some viewers). S2E13: a character gropes one of the main characters, and while another character laughs at it, the harrasement goes further (she attempts to touch her crotch). The assaillant is stopped by another character. Again this scene is played mostly for laughs. S2E14: a 25 year old character is madly in love with his younger brother (16). Her incestuous obsession is further explored and the younger brother almost kisses her. S2E15: in a flashback, there is a conversation between a main character and a crime boss who talks about how he plans to prostitute a middle schooler and have sex with her to "taste her" first. He is killed before he can do anything. S2E20: there is a mild implication that one character sexually abused another character in high school, but this was left ambiguous S2E25: one character is imprisoned against his will in some kind of BDSM dungeon. His captor express her desires to bassically fullfill every depraved and violent sexual fantasy with him as a captive. In one of the light novels (Vol.9) one character tries to rape a woman after crippling her and burning his face. He is stoped.
El Cuco De Cristal (TV Show)
A man hits a woman in the head and then rapes her while unconscious. A man sexually harrasses a woman by licking her face when he thinks she is unconscious. The reveal of the main mystery centers around a serial killer who targets women specifically. It is implied he sexually assaulted them before killing them. There are different mentions of several men sexually and physically abusing women. One of the characters is revealed to be the son of his own uncle as a result of incestual sexual abuse. A man kisses a woman passionately in front of a young boy with the intention of the boy watching.
El Marginal (TV Show)
This show is based on the events of an Argentinian prison, and how a police officer infiltrates in it. Senes of explicit sexual violence take place all along the show, and even a rape on-screen is shown in the jail showers.
Elementary (TV Show)
Rape/sexual assault are occasionally mentioned/discussed throughout the series (not graphic). S1E7: a criminal is shown to have been keeping a sex slave and mentioned to have repeatedly assaulted her (8:00-8:10). S1E9: a criminal is mentioned to have been a rapist (15:30). A woman reveals that her husband sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions (26:30-26:40). S1E20: a 17 year old girl is mentioned to have been drugged and assaulted while also being filmed (03:00-05:00). Videos of various assaults are quickly shown on a computer screen (06:50-07:10). S2E4: there is a discussion of a female character who was sexually abused by her father. Later, it is revealed that a boy was sexually abused by his father and that the assault was filmed. Season 3 features a storyline centred on a rape survivor in the first half, focusing on her recovery and the aftereffects of the trauma. The storyline culminates in her confronting her attacker in S3E12. While it is handled with care, some discussions had and particularly E10-12 may be very difficult for viewers, as more details about her assault are revealed and the character is shown to be struggling with her trauma. S4E7: a girl mentions being kidnapped and raped by her captor. She then talks about another man who had raped his daughter and abused her. S5E5: a man catfishes men into thinking they are meeting up with underage girls to have sex. S5E11: this episode revolves around women being sex trafficked. Rape in prison is used as a threat towards a perpetrator. S5E14: this episode involves sex trafficking. A girl is stalked and pressured by a gang into being the girlfriend of one of them. S515: rape and sex trafficking are discussed. S5E23: a murder victim was was raped is briefly mentioned. S6E1: a sex tape being published online without consent is discussed. S6E10: a serial sexual harasser is introduced. S6E12: a detectives theorizes that a kidnapping victim has been raped. S6E12: Incels encourage people on message boards to rape and murder women. S7E7: a cop who pressures underlings to go out with him is mentioned. Other cops who sexually harass are mentioned.
Elite (TV Show)
Season 1: two boys are forced into a threesome by a girl who manipulates them both. Later, one of those boys assaults the other. Season 2: continued subplot of sibling romance, justified by only being half-siblings. Season 4: a character leaves his home country to escape from the rumours that he sexually abused a woman. A character secretly records himself and another character having sex to have proof that it was consensual. A main character attemps to rape a woman. His family later tries to buy her silence and justifies the assault. It is revealed that he also abused another woman prior to the events of the show. A girl (16 year old) has sex with a much older man who offered her a place to stay after being kicked off her dad's bank account. S4E1: a man runs his mouth over another man's body, completely ignoring every time he says "no" or "stop" or "I have a boyfriend" even getting to the point of a unconsensual blowjob (over the clothes), telling him "It's riskier to try to tell yourself no than to say yes." and "It's not cheating if it's over the clothes." He even offers answers to a test in exchange (38:00-40:00). But the other man does eventually stop him, explaining that he could never betray his boyfriend. S4E4: a female sex worker is almost raped by a client but she is saved in time. S4E7: a 16 year old girl is blackmailed into keep having sex with an older man by threats of him telling her father that she has done sex work. Season 5: a woman is sexually assaulted/raped while unconscious due to drinking. The rapist is protected by his school, which dismisses the victim's testimony.
Endeavour (TV Show)
The show frequently depicts violent crimes. While not always graphic, the show's subject matter is almost always dark. The main characters are disgusted by sexual violence and usually express this, but it is still an extremely prevalent part of the show. Most of these things happen or are mentioned toward the end of the episodes. Pilot: teenage girls are hired to take part in orgies. A teenage girl has a sexual relationship with an older man. Nothing is shown on-screen. S1:E1: a man uses sex to blackmail other men. A man has a sexual relationship with a teenage girl. (Nothing is shown on-screen). S1:E2: a woman is raped and murdered. (Nothing is shown on-screen). S1:E3: a man gropes a woman's buttocks in a dance club. Worthy of note: a woman murders her rival love interest. S2:E1: toward the end of the episode, a man has sex with his long-lost daughter without either realizing they're related (they're shown in bed together). When he finds out, he murders her to avoid his reputation being ruined. S2:E3: worthy of note: a man seeks out women who have cheated on their husbands in order to murder them. S2:E4: the entire episode centres around child sexual abuse. At the end of the episode, an abuse victim commits suicide. S3:E1: references to the abuse committed in the previous episode. A man makes repeated unwanted advances toward a woman. S3:E2: worthy of note: a woman is forced/coerced into having an abortion against her will. S3:E3: worthy of note: a woman describes a physical assault in language which places the blame on the victim of said assault. S4:E1: a girl commits suicide to avoid being raped by her brother. The brother speaks about his sister to a main character. S4:E2: worthy of note: a man is brutally beaten because of his sexuality. A gay man commits suicide, a major motivation for which was the fact that he had to hide his sexuality. A woman kills a rival love interest, who is also a gay man. S4:E3: a doctor takes advantage of his position of power to date (and likely have sex with) nurses. S4:E4: worthy of note: a main character is in a physically/emotionally abusive relationship. It's implied that her boyfriend has caused her to miscarry by throwing her down the stairs. S5:E1: on-screen rape scene at the end of the episode, a woman is gang-raped. Throughout the episode, this character tracks down and murders her rapists, then commits suicide (again, this is onscreen and graphic). Sex trafficking is a major theme in this episode. The abusive relationship from the last episode is briefly referenced. S5E4: a woman grabs two men and kisses them without their consent. A man stalks a woman. S5E5: worthy of note: a man physically abuses his wife. S5E6: a teenage boy makes unwanted verbal advances towards a woman. It is implied that he might intend to rape her, but this doesn't transpire. A man pressures a woman into feeling his bicep when it's clear that she is uncomfortable with this. Multiple men have sexual relationships with a younger woman - it's unclear whether she's in her teens or early twenties. Physical and psychological abuse are key themes in this episode.
Eric (TV Show)
There are repeated mentions of child sex trafficking, paedophilia, and attempts to sell a child to a sex trafficker. Statutory rape is shown on screen, involving a teenager exchanging oral sex for money with an adult. S1E4: a man jokingly asks if another man raped a dog, implying that he has done so before. A homeless woman and a homeless man are in possession of a little boy. They discuss selling him to make money. The woman says she knows what “pervs” they can sell him to.
Evil Lives Here (TV Show)
Extracurricular (TV Show)
The premise of the show is about minors in highschool being sex workers. The main character is the pimp who oversees it all. S1E1: a man gags and beats up sex workers (one of whom is a minor). After almost getting raped and violently assaulted in S1E1, we see the girl's mental stability worsen over the course of the series. This happens in ways that can be extremely triggering. She is later murdered.
The Fable (TV Show)
A woman is forced into prostitution and almost raped.
The Fall (TV Show)
Due to the nature of the show, it contains a number of references to rape, sexual violence and sexual sadism. A man breaks into a house and places underwear and a vibrator on the bed. A man holds a woman down on a bed, attacking her; she is wearing only underwear. References are made to the fact that a man is sexually aroused by violence. A teenage girl tries to kiss an adult man. A woman is shown injured, with blood on her face, wearing only underwear.
Fargo (TV) (TV Show)
A woman, when asked if she is innocent of a certain crime, makes a joke about her own history by saying she "hasn't been innocent" since her uncle cornered her in a barn at age 9. Later on, a man confesses post-consensual-sex that the man who briefly fostered him as a child did "terrible things" to him. "Things you shouldn't do to a kid," he says over an ominous flashback of a menacing-looking man with his hand on a 9 year old boy's shoulder. S1E7: a man and a woman have sex, and the latter asks him to slow down because he is hurting her. He speeds up instead, while picturing her husband (who bullied him), as a revenge. She initially aggred to have sex with him because of a promise he made in return, which he knew was a lie/false promise. S2E5: a man touches a woman between her legs and threatens her at gunpoint. S4E2: a female character mentions that people "raped the native out of her". Just after that, a young girl get whistled by a man on the street. S4E3: a man receives an unsollicited handjob from a woman who thinks he is spying and hitting on her. S4E5: rape is mentioned three times throughout the episode. S5E4 mentions child molestation. S5E5: rapists are mentioned. S5E7: using puppets, a woman tells the story of a couple who take her in at age 15. After the wife leaves, the man later comes into the young woman’s room at night and sits on her bed. Nothing more is shown, but the ominous tone suggests abuse. They later marry and he regularly beats her. This is mentioned again in S5E8.
Father Brown (TV Show)
S1E1: the episode opens with a man and woman in a bedroom getting dressed. She has clearly been raped by him under threat of her husband being killed otherwise, and to ‘pay back’ an unspecified debt. Although the episode makes it clear that the rapist is a bad person, the rape itself is treated by her and the other characters as though it was infidelity on her part, and is never openly acknowledged as a sexual assault. The rapist sexually harrasses another woman later, who throws her drink in his face. He gets murdered. S1E5: a cult leader exploits his female followers to obtain pornographic photos and, it is implied, sexual favours from them. S1E9: a missing young teenage girl’s diary says she was having a sexual relationship with a much older man: it later turns out this was not the case. It is heavily implied towards the end of the episode that she was being sexually abused long-term since her early childhood by another man, but this also turns out in the end not to have been the case. S2E3: a couple argue and the man kisses the woman against her will. It is implied to shut her up or in the heat of the moment. She initially resists but the sexual assault is then framed as a “romantic” kiss. S2E6: a pornographic film is played to a crowd of people who did not want to see it (as viewers, we hear only the soundtrack). A historic case of a teenager being raped and murdered is discussed at one point. S2E8: a young girl is kissed by her (adoptive) father in the start of an attempted rape, which is thankfully interrupted. She ends up in a romantic relationship with her (adoptive) brother. S2E9: sexual harassment happens in an office. S2E10: sexual harassment happens in a bathroom . S3E2: rape is mentioned in passing. S3E8: sex trade is a theme throughout this episode, and one woman in it is murdered. A lesbian character is repeatedly sexually harassed and groped by a sex buyer. S3E9: there is an on-screen attempted rape early in the episode (the victim gets away). S3E14: child sexual abuse and incest discussed throughout the episode, as one of the characters had been molested by her uncle as a young girl. The phenomenon of practicing Catholic paedophiles being protected by the seal of the confessional is alluded to. S4E1: there is a strongly implied rape scene. It is unclear whether the rape occurs or is just attempted, but it is shown onscreen in the form of the shadows/silhouettes of the characters with audio. S4E2: a woman's marriage is arranged by her father for his financial benefit. She describes herself as having been callously sold off by him.
Flikken Maastricht (TV Show)
The show is a crime procedural, and sexual assault is mentioned on occasion. In one episode, a woman is kidnapped and held hostage by her employer. A sexually manipulative relationship is heavily implied.
Forensic Files (TV Show)
Forever Knight (TV Show)
One episode centers on sex workers: rape is discussed, non consensual touching happens in some scenes, and one scene centers on an attempted rape that the character escapes (21:50 to 23:00).
The Frankenstein Chronicles (TV Show)
This is set in Victorian London and deals with period-typical themes of prostitution and the abuse of teenage girls. One teenage girl becomes pregnant from being raped by an older man. However, nothing is discussed explicitly or seen onscreen.
Frankie Drake Mysteries (TV Show)
S3E7: the plot is centered around systematic sexual assault and harassment which leaves victims unheard. An attempted assault is shown on screen and victims share their experiences.
A Friend of the Family (TV Show)
In From the Cold (TV Show)
S1E4: a spy has to have sex with her mark as part of an operation. She was blackmailed into the mission in the first place. A spy is disguised as a possibly teenage male: she is actually a woman. The spy is groped by a man who has been having a sexual relationship with the teenager male. S1E5+6: an adult man seduces a teenage girl, while lying to her. He is trying to catch her mom, a spy. S1E6: a spy seduces a woman so she can get to her father.
From Dusk Till Dawn: the Series (TV Show)
Frozen Tiles-Tohai (TV Show)
The premise of the show is that the main character (a teenage boy) is hiding a girl in his house and has to gamble to earn money for their daily expenses. The girl is later revealed to be a victim of human and sex trafficking that was saved by the protagonist. S1E1: a woman begs the underage main character to let her win deliberately as she took a large loan from the yakuza and needs to pay it. Because he refuses, she takes his hand and presses it on her breasts, offering to have sex with him if he helps her. S13+4: a flashback shows the main character accepting to gamble with a stranger he met online and being led to a secluded area. He realizes that the men are part of a sex trafficking ring. While rape is not shown on screen, there are other graphic depictions of physical violence against women that are quite upsetting. The main character is forced to stay and gamble. It is said that if he loses the game, he will have to pay off his debt by shooting pornographic movies with them. The men make various degrading comments and are amused by his helplessness (e.g., they laugh at the thought of taking his virginity). The main character eventually wins the game. Instead of money, he "buys" one of the girls who were being abused, as she helped him and he wants her to be free. While he is shown to be respectful, it is worth mentioning that she depends on the boy completely as she is in a foreign country with no documents or money. S2E2: a woman reveals to be a survivor of child sex abuse (committed by her father). In episode 4, a brief flashback is shown (not graphic). S2E4: a teenage girl gets forcefully undressed and groped by an old man. She remains in a state of partial undressing as she is forced to gamble.
Gangsta (TV Show)
General Hospital (TV Show)
Sexual violence is frequent, gratuitous, and handled in with genre-typical sensationalism and insensitivity.
The Godfather of Harlem (TV Show)
S1E1: a man is raped off-screen roughly 45 minutes into the episode. S1E3: implied off-screen rape of a black woman by a police officer (first 5 minutes of the episode): the build up to the event is on screen. There is frequent discussion of this event throughout the episode. At the end, the rapist is raped off-screen. S2E5: a character is blackmailed for participating in sex with prostitutes. S2E7: a character discusses her rape and subsequent abortion . There is nudity, consensual sex scenes, and prostitution throughout the series.
The Good Fight (TV Show)
S1E6: frequent and intermittent occurrences of people aggressively reading violent online threats depicting graphic rape scenes. S1E8: the episode deals with an accused clergy member and a teenager. S2E3: a client on a reality tv show passes out from drinking too much. Another contestant is told to assault her by a producer. The assault is briefly shown on screen. S6E1: a woman is sexually assaulted in VR (virtual reality) on-screen. The episode is all about if this is the same as an in person assault. S6E10: someone being sexually assaulted by their boss (a prominent politician) is mentioned. It is revealed that the character made up the sexual assault. Past sexual assaults by a law firm partner is mentioned: the grandchild of the perpetrator asks his mom about it.
Good Girls (2018) (TV Show)
S1E1: a woman's boss tries to coerce her into a sexual relationship (29:50-31:50). They are interrupted before anything can happen. Near the end of the episode, he attempts to rape her but is stopped by her sister (40:30-41:25). Both scenes are graphic. S1E2: mention of the aforementioned attempted rape (03:50). S2E3 : it is implied that this same character rapes another woman. S2E7: three women are held up in a house by men with guns and told to 'go to the basement' with an armed man.
Gotham (TV Show)
A female child is restrained by an adult man and he tells her he has some friends coming over to see he. It is not discussed what he means but he grabs her while he says it and is very creepy during. S1E2: a minor threatens to accuse someone of 'touching' her. S1E6: a male character stalks and harasses a female character who has told him multiple times that she is not interested in him. He does not do this maliciously, but he still is being generally creepy. S3E4: a male character is introduced alongside his sister. While talking with another character, the sister says 'but then he [her brother] started putting other thoughts in my head, thoughts a brother should never have.' This heavily implies that he is sexually attracted to his sister. Some may find the interactions between these characters uncomfortable at times.
Gran Hotel (TV Show)
S2E28: implied rape of a main character by her husband.
Graveyard (TV Show)
This series is about crimes committed against women and girls in Turkish society. It is a police procedural following a task force dedicated to these crimes. As such there are multiple instances of sensitive subject matter. The subject itself is handled with sensitivity and the men they find responsible for them are held to account. S1E3: a brief scene is shown of a corpse's vulva and the injuries around it in the context of an evidence photo. The scene is brief but shocking and disturbing. S2E2: on screen rape seen at 41:00 minute mark. The scene is short (only a dozen or so seconds) and not graphic but it is clear what is happening.
Great Pretender (TV Show)
Child trafficking - mostly within the sex trade - features in case 4. In some scenes, children can be seen being touched by wealthy people. In an attempt to seduce a man (her target), a woman undresses and swims naked in a pool. The man tries to get hold of her but she gets away.
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens (TV Show)
Hannibal (TV) (TV Show)
S2E10: a woman is implied to lie about being on birth control in order to get pregnant. S2E11: an antagonist is implied to have away with child abuse and sexual violence because of his wealth, and emotionally abuses a child in a scene with sexual overtones. He also has his sister's uterus forcefully removed so she cannot bear children, and is all but state to have molested and/or preyed on her throughout the series (partially out of sadism, and partially out of lesbophobia). He verbally harasses several female characters across episodes. S3E7: implied bestiality and incestuous impregnation. There is a briefly discussed off-screen rape in which an antagonist is sedated and has his prostate milked with a cattle prod. [Contested] The protagonist "gets into the head" of a serial killer who rapes his female victims and partially mutilates their bodie after death. He partially mentions this while retracing the steps of the killing. This is also mentioned later on. S3E12: brief threat of prison rape. A man is stripped naked while he is unconscious and then tortured in a scene with sexual overtones. He is filmed naked without his consent, told what to say, and then has his lips bitten off.
Hap and Leonard (TV Show)
S3E4: two men drag a woman to their truck before she is rescued by another man. The latter is then arrested, released, and later found dead.
Happy! (TV Show)
The entire show has overtones of implied childhood sexual assault. S1E7: long and graphic rape scene played for laughs.
Happy Sugar Life (TV Show)
A teenage girl kidnaps an 8 year old girl and is obsessively in love with her. The child is groomed into wanting to stay with her abductor and when her older brother finds her, she declines his offer to come stay with him. In episode 11, she has a wedding with the 8 year old and kisses her. A teenage boy is kidnapped and raped by a female manager. Another woman kidnaps and ties him up later on in the series. Because of this, he sees himself as "dirty" and develops an obsession with the 8 year old girl mentioned above. A woman was raped by a boy as a teenager and gets pregnant as a result. Her parents and the parents of the boy then force her into an arranged marriage with her rapist as a way of making him take responsibility for impregnating her.
Happy Valley (TV Show)
S1E2: on-screen rape.
Harry's Law (TV Show)
S1E4: a stranger brutally attacks a young woman at night in an alley, pinning her down on the asphalt. When she tries to fight, screaming her lungs out, he beats her hard, threatening to kill her, then he starts to undress (03:31-04:51). She is saved at the eleventh hour when her father chases the attacker away. She ends up in hospital bloodied and bruised. The attack is being handled sensitively afterwards and is being discussed throughout the rest of the episode.
Hawaii Five-0 (TV Show)
In the Heat of the Night (TV) (TV Show)
S3E1: a female character is raped on screen by a male character. The scene is extremely violent and she is blindfolded during the attack. She goes to a hospital with her husband and is examined by doctors. She has extremely negative emotions after being raped. The rapist tries again twice, but is unsuccessful She has some difficulty with having him arrested, but he is arrested at the end of the episode.
Hidden (TV) (TV Show)
The first season is centred around a human trafficking case in which the main villain, who is an adult man (noticeably older), kidnaps young/very young teenage girls and keeps them in his basement where he sexually abuses them. This is mentioned throughout. One scene features an attempted rape of one of these girls but she fights back and he gives up. There are frequent discussions and visuals of the aftermath of the abuse.
High Seas (TV Show)
His and Hers (TV) (TV Show)
Sex the viewer thinks is consensual is later revealed to be sex with someone who is involved in a plot to kill the other person S1E5: rape is almost shown on screen but it can be heard (struggling and crying sounds in the background). Rape is implied earlier in the show. S1E6: it is revealed that a different character was raped. At a birthday party for two 16 year old girls, three adult men invited by some of the girls friends attempt to rape a 16 year old girl, when one of her friends steps in to save her. They then rape her instead (27:34-28:38). One of her friends encourages this saying "just use her I'll give you a discount", and the rapist says "I'm going to give this bitch a birthday present she'll never fucking forget". The rape is shown on screen, of a 16 year old by an adult man, with two other adult men present. It is filmed and her friends do not stop the men: in fact it was a set up by her "friends", who then proceed to sing happy birthday to her, as she is being raped. It is a key part of the plot and a large part of the main reveal of the show. Worthy of note: The rape victim murders the perpetrators who lured her into the situation. everyone who was around at the time that it happened and helped cover it up.
Homeland (TV Show)
A woman attempts to seduce a coworker by pressing up against him in S1E1. This is non-consensual. In S1E1 a man has violent sex with his wife, however, the nature of the encounter is very much forced. In S4E2, there is a sexual encounter between a very drunk man and a sober woman.
Hostages (2013) (TV Show)
A surveillance video of a rape which, whilst not graphic, is played several times in both seasons.
How to Get Away With Murder (TV Show)
S1E11: a character seeking legal help reveals that her husband is holding two girls hostage in their basement (about 9 minutes into the episode). She non-graphically describes her past with this man as a 16-year-old runaway looking for protection, and mentions abuse (implied sexual abuse) that she did not want to happen to the two girls. Their rape is discussed around the 24:00 minute mark. S1E13: a character angrily discusses being sexually abused by her uncle as a child. S1E14: a teenage boy is mentioned having been sexually abused by a priest, causing him to committ suicide. S2E5: a character shows another a video on a laptop of a young girl sitting on a bed being told by her father they are going to “play a game.” The shot focuses on one character’s crying face as you hear the man tell the girl to take her clothes off and crying/yelling can be heard. S2E6: mentions of gang rape and a character who had been sexually abused by her father as a child. S2E14: A character reveals that she was raped long ago by another character. In season 4, a councilman is accused of rape. This forms an integral part of the plot and is referenced throughout.
I Just Killed My Dad (TV Show)
S1E2: a mother briefly mentions childhood sexual abuse from her step father (13:30-13:40).
I Know My First Name is Steven (TV Show)
This is a biographical two-part television mini series about a boy who was kidnapped and sexually abused for seven years before escaping.
Il Mostro (TV Show)
S1E1: sexual assault is implied (23:06-23:50). A woman mentions that she is four months pregnant, with the scene prior to it showing her locked in a room with a man while yelling for her husband. S1E2: the implied sexual assault in the first episode is confirmed by the woman as having happened, with a scene showing the woman trembling against a wall as an undressed man approaches her (12:30). A brief moment of non consensual touching, in which the woman is forced to make out with her husband on the bed, despite telling him no (18:30). The woman confesses to her current lover that her husband and his roommate forced her to do things that she did not want, followed by her current lover forcefully tearing her clothes off in public and calling her a whore (30:50-31:03). S1E3: this scene is more of a warning than sexual assault, but a young couple is watched and recorded having sex by a stranger that is touching himself behind a tree (03:06-03:40). A man places his hand on a woman’s crotch after locking her in her bedroom (11:24-11:30). This is a short scene, and she fights him off and sets a boundary. A man tries to force himself onto a woman despite her saying no (32:33-32:47). S1E4: implied sexual assault (13:20-13:38). A man strips a woman of her clothing, followed by a scene of her holding a baby. it is stated that the killer mutilates his female victims in their pelvic areas, with a scene showing a woman stripped naked.
Ils Etaient Dix (TV Show)
This series contains sexual violence, which is an addition from the book it is adapted from. S1E1: an attempted rape scene on-screen is followed by a heavily implied off-screen rape (15:30-17:00). The victim is shown being dragged off-screen by her hair while screaming. The aftermath of the rape is also shown (35:30-38:00 + 46:00-48:00): the victim tells the rapist's mother what happened. The mother downplays it and asks the woman not to report her son, and then murders the victim by electrocution in order to silence her. The mother is later murdered in punishment for this event, but there is no indication or sign that the actual rapist ever faces any consequences. A man unsuccessfully hitting on a woman sarcastically says: "I'm not going to rape you, jeez." S1E2: an ex-policewoman has flashbacks to a rape case in which the rapist was described as a “lovely young man” and the victim as “an unstable junkie.” The victim is shown on-screen accusing him and trying to hit him. The policewoman threw the case out of court: the rapist later attacked another woman, and this time, murdered her. In a flashback, a young boy's trousers are pulled off him by bullies, to humiliate him in front of his crush. S1E3: a woman deep in panic and extremely upset grabs and starts kissing a man; they have sex, which is not shown on-screen at the time. However, a short clip shown later in the series makes it clear that the sex was filmed without their knowledge or consent. S1E4: a woman taunting another woman says “what’s up with you, were you raped as a kid or something, was it your daddy?” S1E5: an ageing male celebrity cheats on his wife with young fangirls. No sex scenes are shown onscreen, but a scene where he is blackmailed over the phone reveals that two of the girls were underage teenagers.
The Irregulars (TV Show)
S1E4: three men rape a drunk woman in a bar.We see them going to a bed room and close the door. The rape is inferred because the woman gets syphillis from this encounter, the bar owner (who is paid to keep quiet) portrays her as a whore, and this encounter gives the woman the reason to kill all those men in a gruesome manner.
IZombie (TV Show)
S1E3: the main character is sexually harassed by someone slapping her rear at a party (flashback). S1E2: the main character tries to seduce her ex fiancé and another man in a police interrogation; later the same man follows her at an art gallery to tries to corner in the basement and attempts to rape her. An artist is revealed to have been murdered over the grooming of a teenager: it is not investigated and only the murderer has an issue with it. S2E4: flashback of woman looking in a mirror and getting groped from behind by her boss wanting 'service' for money. S2E11: sexual harassment from the main character to her boss by spanking him when he bends over a desk. S3E5: the main character sexually harasses an artist in an interrogation room. There are some more sexual harassment scenes speckled throughout the series other than these particular scenes. A woman is implied to have tampered with her birth control: her partner cries with the implications of rape by deception.
Jessica Jones (TV Show)
Rape, sexual assault and abusive relationship dynamics are central to the plot of season 1. The antagonist has the ability to control minds and employs this ability to coerce numerous women into abusive sexual relationships. One of these relationships results in an aborted pregnancy. The effects of this are shown through the protagonist, whose mind was controlled by the antagonist for eight months. Her character suffers from depression, PTSD and alcoholism as a result of this sexual and psychological abuse. In the season finale, the antagonist threatens to repeatedly rape the closest friend of the antagonist. An incestuous relationship between a brother and sister is hinted at but never made explicitly clear. In season 2, the protagonist continues to deal with PTSD, depression and alcoholism resulting from past events when she was mind-controlled and forced to enter into a sexual relationship with a man, who is now out of the picture. The fact that she was raped is mentioned several times, and is generally handled sensitively. S2E2: the protagonist's sister is a survivor of sexual assault. She was repeatedly sexually assaulted by an older man when she was a child/teenager. Their mother is aware of this, and in the present-day, even says that she trusts her daughter with him more than she would her daughter with the protagonist (around 45:33-46:00). On-screen, she tries to blackmail him for information and the topic of her past sexual assault is brought up. He essentially says that it wasn't rape and that he was the one being used. It is possible that he is still engaged in sexual abuse with underage girls. A friend of hers hears the conversation and confronts the man, who once again blames her and says it wasn't his fault. Conversations happen between approximately the 36:50-39:03 and 42:32-43:05 marks. S2E4: the protagonist says that she was raped, referencing past events that have already been discussed on the show. The protagonist and her sister once again confront the man who raped her sister when she was a child. The topic of this past sexual assault is brought up. S2E6: two characters have sex while one is under the influence of an unknown drug. S2E7: there is a flashback in which the protagonist finds her sister about to engage in a sexual act with a man who gave her drugs, and puts a stop to it (the sister is high during this encounter). S2E11: the protagonist repeatedly experiences hallucinations featuring the man who repeatedly raped her in the past, including: one where he briefly touches her while she is naked in the shower and one where they both reference the fact that he raped her (but the rapist makes it sound like they had consenting sex). S3E2: a guy drugs a woman he is on a date with, with the intent of raping her (23:00-26:18). She tries to resist, but she is unable to. Fortunately, a vigilante shows up and knocks the aggressor out. The vigilante then talks to the victim, who is not in her right mind and is scared, mentioning that the aggressor has done this before but got off on a technicality. The vigilante calls the cops and and the aggressor is arrested. S3E4: a pedophile has a room where he makes child pornography. The main protagonist locks him in that same room and calls the cops (11:35-12:30). He is later locked up. S3E9: a man with the power to sense the darkness in others, talks about the time he sensed it in his dad (27:30-29:15). He found out that his dad was sexually abusing his sister for years. He confronts his dad about it, which resulted in his dad being arrested. His mother overdosed on pills the same day and his sister blamed him, saying “it wasn’t his truth to tell.”
The Jetty (TV Show)
There are various sexual relationships between adults and underage girls. On-screen moments seem to be mostly consensual despite the age. One of the relationships is portrayed as a normal thing. Worthy of note: In the last episode, a girl has on-screen sex with a man, because her friend asked her to. She does not seem to enjoy it and asks him to stop, which he does after she asks a couple of times.
Joker Game (TV Show)
Jonathan Creek (TV Show)
S1E4: this episode implies that a teenage girl may have had a relationship or violent encounter with a much older rock star, but it turns out that this has not happened. S2E12 (Christmas special): a female character is murdered in a particularly gruesome way that involves gynaecological injury. A male character openly talks about deceiving a younger woman in an attempt to get her to sleep with him, because he fetishises her virginity, and hints that he is planning to put something in her drink (ie, may rape her). None of the other characters take any issue with this and it is treated as normal conversation between men. S3E1: a male character visits two prostitutes. S3E4: a woman is groomed and sexually assaulted by her much older uncle for many years starting when she was a teenager. We see him beating her onscreen while she describes their romantic and sexual relationship. She then tricks a man with amnesia into believing that he is her husband and they have been in love for many years and they have a sexual and romantic relationship based on her taking advantage of his amnesia. S4E6: this episode revolves around footage of a teenage girl's face as she winces in pain and breathes heavily. For most of the episode, viewers are led to believe that this is on-screen footage of her being raped by her uncle. It later turns out not to be a video of sexual violence, but that she was stabbed. Whether or not she was ever sexually abused by her uncle remains unclear. S5(Christmas special): in a film within the episode, multiple women are strapped to a wooden table, where it is implied that they are tortured and raped, though this is not shown onscreen. In the same film within the episode, another woman is shown screaming on a bed struggling to escape from beneath a man who is clearly about to rape her (although both are fully clothed and the rape is not shown onscreen, writing onscreen specifies that she will be a victim of his "lechery"). All of these depictions are heavily sexualised and clearly intended to be "titillating." In the context of the episode, these women are actresses in a tasteless film, rather than genuine victims of rape and torture.
Justified (TV Show)
Over the 6 seasons of the show, most instances for the above tags are mentions of criminal charges, stories from the past, or jokes. When on screen assaults happen, they are typically over quickly and not excessively violent. S1E2: a lawman jokes about another one getting raped. Two non first cousins are sleeping together. S1E4: while attempting to cross the border into Mexico ,a male guide threatens a woman with rape after they cannot pay his increased fee. S1E5: this episode mentions child rape and murder. S1E7: a man mentions "playing with" a woman's children when he is done with her. S1E10: someone makes a joke about their uncle molesting them. S1E11: statutory rape is mentioned. S2E1+2: a male character has past statutory rape charges. He harasses a 14 year old girl and ends up kidnapping her but she is rescued before she is assaulted. These events are discussed in E2. S2E2: an inmate who got pregnant by a guard is featured. S2E6: a male bank robber sexually harasses a woman during the robbery, making suggestive comments and running a hand up her leg. S2E8: rape is mentioned. S3E3+6+10+11: we see a man tied up and gagged wearing only boxers. It is not explicitly clear what happens to them but it is seen during unsettling scenes. S3E10: a man talks about how his father forced him into sex work when he was a child. S3E11: this episode mentions sex with a minor. S4E1: this episode features an underage teen trying to have sex with a full grown man and flashing a full grown man. S4E2-3: a child calls federal marshalls "perverts". S4E3: a man ties a woman to a bed and gets on top of her, straddling her. It is unclear if he just wants to her hurt or rape her. S4E4: this episode features a teen offering oral sex to a grown man. S4E6: this episode mentions rape of a minor. S4E7: there is an attempted assault while at a party where a man grabs a woman and tries to pull her from the room. Her boyfriend comes in before anything further can happen. S5E2: a male cop threatens and gropes a female witness. S5E4: a male guard at a woman's prison refuses to allow her to leave her cell. He tells her that she needs to strip and bend over the bed, but another guard comes in and takes the prisoner out before anything further happens. S5E7+8: prison rape is mentioned. S5E7+10: a male guard at a woman's prison has sex with a prisoner as payment for helping/allowing them to smuggle drugs into the prison. You can hear it happening in the background, but the assault is not seen. In E10 this is mentioned as something that multiple women were forced to do. S6E4: a prison rape joke is made. S6E5: another joke about prison rape is made.
Juvenile Justice (TV Show)
There are many implications of minors being involved in prostitution. There is an attempted rape on a minor, relatively early in the series. S1E8: a group-rape starts to be mentioned at the end of the episode. S1E9: this episode revolves around the rape started in S1E8. There are graphic descriptions of it, partly on screen.
Karma (TV Show)
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (TV Show)
The entire premise of this series is sexual abuse.
The Killing (2011) (TV Show)
S1E3: a group of people (including a detective) watch a tape which shows a rape happening (at the 42:00-44:00 minute mark). Season 3 is focused on rape and prostitution (most of the girls are underage). S3E2: a character is captured. The camera cuts away but it is heavily implied that she is raped by her captor (about 37 minutes in). S3E3: police find multiple home pornography videos of underage girls. Rape is never explicitly shown, but some of the videos include girls crying and a man (of-screen) asking if they are virgins. Clips of these videos are shown throughout the season. S3E4: an underage male is forced to have sex with his parole officer. The actual rape is not shown. S4E3+4: a sexual relationship between a high-schooler and an adult is discussed. Episode 4 also includes a high-schooler implying that his mother forced him to be sexual with her. S4E5: later in the episode, a hazing ritual is shown where boys are forced to masturbate to photos of their mothers while other boys watch.
KinnPorsche the Series La Forte (TV Show)
In two occasions the main couple has intercourse when one of them is intoxicated. A secondary character drugs and attempts to assault one of the mains on both of these occasions before the intercourses.
Kung Fu (TV Show)
Season 1: a main character is sexually assaulted by her boss and extorted into signing an NDA for money. Later, another character is going to work for this boss. She decides to step forward. The subject is handled well, with lots of nuance: everyone believes the victim and is very supportive. S2E6: the rape from season 1 is mentioned. In another episode, fraternity brothers roofy women, have sex with them, and then use the tapes as blackmail. A whistleblower is doped which results in his death.
La Chica De Nieve (TV Show)
This film contains very violent rape scenes: there are flashbacks throughout and the protagonist has intense PTSD.
Lady in the Lake (TV Show)
The main character flashes back to a rape that took place. Only her face is shown but it is clear she is being assaulted. The plot circles around a child’s death and its implications. There is a scene where a character is beat by his mother while naked. It is unclear if there is any sexual element to this, or if it is just a traumatic memory.
Landscapers (TV Show)
S1E2: a victim of sexual child abuse recounts the events of the abuse and is relatively disturbed and emotional about it (38:24-41:14). The abuse itself is not shown on-screen.
Las Vegas (TV Show)
Over the course of five seasons various incidents occur. Male characters are often victim to unwanted kissing, groping, and often portrayed as constantly horny. Male security often is caught watching the women through security cameras, although never in the rooms, they do zoom in on breasts often. One of the female leads has a story line about being sexually abused by her father, including learning her father remarried and had two more daughters who are very young but come to the female lead for help because they're terrified of testifying against their father. The father later is released and found not guilty. A female peer pressures a male into sex several times by threatening his job. A male pressures a woman into sleeping with him, threatening to stop being friends with her, he later becomes borderline obsessed with her. A female lead is kidnapped and almost raped but manages to shove the man out of the airplane he is holding her hostage on, killing him. She never does recieve help for it. Another female lead is kidnapped and it is heavily implied the men are going to rape her, she is rescued beforehand. A female accuses a male lead of groping her and forcing her to participate in Oral while intoxicated. He denies this accusation, everyone choosing to side with him, the woman later drops the allegation in exchange for his help on something. It's never specified if he did or did not do it. A woman accuses another of being trans to try and seduce a man that they both want. A female lead implies that she was sexually abused or raped in the past but never specifies. A female "comedic" character often talks about sex, her talk is often graphic but in broken english, her character is also asian and partakes in racist sterotypical things, including "Tight but in a good way" talk A female lead is portrayed as an escort in a specific episode, she meets a male client who does not want to have sex. She respects his wishes, however, he begs her to lie to his father as his father has been pressuring him to lose his virginity. The female lead who admits to her father sexually abusing her is pressured by friends to drink, party, and participate in sexual acts despite being uncomfortable, her friends call her a "buzzkill" and leave her alone.
Law & Order (TV Show)
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Show)
The main focus of the show is a team of detectives who investigate sex crimes; all forms of sexual assault are discussed extensively, and sometimes shown onscreen, though actual rapes are rarely shown in vivid detail. S6E2: a perp sexually harasses a detective. S9E15: a main character is sexually assaulted while undercover. The scene is quite graphic. She experiences flashbacks to the attempted rape for the rest of the season, and the event is occasionally mentioned or alluded to in later seasons. S15E1: the same woman from S9E15 is kidnapped and tortured for several days by a serial killer. He forces her to watch him rape other women, including an underage girl (none of which are shown on-screen) and attempts to rape her, but she manages to escape. S15E19: the man from S15E01 manages to once again kidnap the same woman from that episode. He sexually assaults and attempts to rape her, and threatens to instead rape a young girl if she does not comply. This event along with the one from S15E1 are both discussed heavily throughout Season 15, and are mentioned or discussed occasionally in later seasons.
Law School (TV Show)
A main plot is about a character suffering domestic violence from her boyfriend. She gets recorded without her consent while having sexual intercourse: this is mentioned for a couple of episodes (the sexual scene is not shown). The domestic violence is not explicit, but the abuser steps on her feet and grabs her with violent intentions.
Les Papillons Noirs (TV Show)
There are two rape scenes in two different episodes, as well as a back alley abortion scene in which the woman can be heard screaming for about a minute. Women are sexually objectified, including long shots of their breasts.
Lethally Blonde (TV Show)
Most episodes focused on people who ended up having a really bad life whether as playboy models or porn stars.
Lidia Poet (TV Show)
Various episodes contain sexual harassment, as the show is about a woman trying to become a lawyer. S1E1: a female lawyer gets cat-called by male prisoners. S1E6: the female protagonist poses as a prostitute and is harassed by a man. Season 2 episode 3 contains an attempted rape on screen. The woman signs up to get the man to attempt to rape her so police will be able to arrest him. S2E3: attempted rape on-screen. S2E4: rape is described.
Lie to Me (TV Show)
S1E1: this episode centers on the murder of a teacher. Her male student was accused of murdering her. He did not but was stalking her. A teenage female student had a relationship with and was impregnated by the principal. The teacher found out and the principal killed her to avoid being turned in for statutory rape of the student. S1E2: sexual assault by a commanding officer to several women under his command. Assaults are described in detail by the victims.
Liebes Kind (TV Show)
There are several graphic scenes depicting a woman held captive and the antagonist. The woman is shown being urinated on and being chained to a bed. Throughout the show it is implied he got her pregnant and has been planning to do so for awhile. There are children in the home when this takes place, but there is no graphic showing of him doing anything to the children or the children witnessing this first hand.
Life On Mars (2006) (TV Show)
S1E4: the main character is drugged, tied to his bed, raped by a woman and left naked to be found the next day by his boss and one of his colleague. He is then repeatiely teased about it by different characters.
Line of Duty (TV Show)
Descriptions of violence against women, sex trafficking and discussions of child sex abuse are constant throughout each season. There are also numerous relationships with clear power imbalances and coercion.
Locked Up (TV Show)
S2E2: on-screen rape (32:00-35:00). There are many occurrences of sexual harassment and sexual assault throughout the series.
London Spy (TV Show)
Long Bright River (TV Show)
A police officer uses his badge to coerce women into giving him sexual favours. This is not shown on screen. There is a scene showing a police officer receiving a blowjob from a prostitute. During this scene it is unclear whether the act is entirely consensual, though it is later revealed to be consensual. A police officer has a pattern of grooming teenage girls. This is a major plot point. All of the above was relevant to the plot, and was handled sensitively. No sexual violence is shown on screen.
Longmire (TV Show)
S1E10: a teenage boy is forced to rape a girl while being held at gunpoint by a group of teenage boys. The girl is then gang raped and the attackers are acquitted of the crime.
Love-Hate (TV Show)
S3E1: a woman is raped towards the end of the episode. The assailant is shown making unwanted advances before quickly cutting to the assault; the act is shown briefly but graphically. S5E6: a woman is gang raped in prison. The scene is graphic.
Lucifer (TV) (TV Show)
The main character keeps asking a woman to have sex with her even though she has repetitively refused. He stalks her and even breaks into her house. S1E10: a character turns down sex with a woman because she is too intoxicated. What's troubling is the implication is that he normally would sleep with her, but has suddenly had a change in character. S2E1: a guest character forces herself on and kisses the main character without his permission. She also tries to unbutton her shirt and show him her breasts: he actively tries to push her off. S2E4: a character discusses drugging the drinks of two young women with what the character thought was a "roofie" but accidentally poisonning them. S2E8: a guest character mentions a past rape that occurred years prior. No details are discussed. A yoga guru is said to have two sexual harassment cases against him. Later in the episode, a woman admits that said guru had sexually assaulted her previously. S2E18: the main character’s brother is knocked out. When he wakes up the main character and his friend asks him where he has hidden an object they are looking for. The main character jokingly asks “Ah, Keister it did you?” (meaning to hide it up one’s rectum) whereupon the friend states that she “already checked that” meaning she searched the unconscious characters rectum without consent (18:52-18:57). S3E6: a stripper comes to the office. A female character immediately protests, and tries to push him off. He grinds on her anyway. In season 5, a woman dates a man who is lying about his identity. He turns out to be a serial killer. A man takes upskirt photos of an unsuspecting woman (15:01). One of the female characters straddles a hotel clerk and forces her breasts in his face while he actively protests (10:35-11:31). A woman tries to kiss the titular character. She continues to push on despite his protests, until he has to push her off (21:00-22:00). SPOILERS: In this show, God creates the main female character for his son (the main male character): they have no free will to resist each other despite hating everything about each other. The woman has to talk herself into overlooking how the man's personality and interest bother her over and over. The man changes into an arguably better person because his father (God) knew best and gave him a woman to make that happen: he is thus conscious of everything and willingly decides to accept his father's gift of a sexual and romantic partner that has no say in being. In summary, God trafficks a human being to his son, setting her up in a life where her personality will become exactly what he wants and accept being made for a man as a gift: this is framed as a good thing in the story's narrative.
Luke Cage (TV Show)
S1E7: it seems like a young girl was molested by her uncle. It does not go into any detail (37:21-38:30). It is confirmed that she was at least molested by her uncle. Her cousin goes on to say that she was seducing her uncle, which lead to her attacking her cousin and yelling that she did not want it (41:15-42:06). S1E9: a woman talks about the time her cousin was kidnapped and raped by multiple guys before being beaten and killed (21:10-21:35). S2E9: the woman who was sexually abused by her uncle, talks to her daughter about who her real father is (34:00-38:30). The sexual abuse was briefly talked about in S1E7, but it never said how far it went. It is confirmed that the woman was not just molested, but raped as a child by her uncle, and later gave birth to her daughter. She then talks to her daughter about trying to love her, but she cannot because all she sees is her uncle in her. S2E12: the daughter of the rape victim briefly mentions it while at her cousin’s grave (15:50-17:00). She talks about how she is the product of rape, incest, and murder. She then thanks her cousin for still loving her despite that, putting a flower on his grave. S2E13: the rape victim from the previous submissions talks to her daughter about what it is like to be raped (39:00-40:00). She mentions that when you are raped, you lose a part of yourself. She says this to explain why she cannot fully love her daughter. About two minutes after this, the rape victim tells her daughter that she does not see her uncle in her anymore.
Maiden Holmes (TV Show)
Making of a Serial Killer (TV Show)
The Mantis (TV Show)
Worthy of note: in S1E5, there is discussion of a botched vaginoplasty.
Marcella (TV Show)
Season 2 involves extensive discussion of child abuse, including sexual abuse. A pedophile tries to brush off his interest in children by saying he has not assaulted a child in years, though this is framed in the show as repulsive and unacceptable. Detectives report signs of sexual abuse on a corpse. It is revealed that a boy is being sexually abused by his father. A woman recalls being given alcohol by a celebrity and raped at the age of 14. A boy is tied down to a bed by a pedophile who wants revenge on the protagonist. The man takes off his own shirt and tells the boy his mom will have to watch him be hurt. Police intervene before the boy is physically harmed. In season 3, two man attempt to rape a teenage girl in an alley, but the protagonist quickly intervenes. There are also other brief scenes of men getting physically violent against their patners.
Mare Fuori (TV Show)
S1E1: attempted rape.
Marvel's the Punisher (TV Show)
S1E8: a man talks about the time he was almost sexually abused when he was 10 or 11. He talks about a guy that he thought was cool would always hang around the group home. He found out something was wrong when they were alone and the predator called him pretty. Knowing nothing good would come from it, he attacked the predator, which resulted in the child’s arm being broken. S2E4: the villain from the first season confronts a predator from the group home he grew up in. It was mentioned in season 1 that the predator tried to sexually abuse the villain when he was a child, which resulted in the villain’s arm being broken. The predator talked about loving the kids in the group home and some of them “loving” him back. S2E6: from the beginning of the episode to, the main character and a girl goes to a place where they could develop some photos. The place they go to seems to be used for child pornography. The main character beats the photographer, asking if he likes taking pictures of little girls, before eventually burning the whole place down. A character attacks and kisses a woman he has overpowered. S2E10: a paid female sex-worker is forced to perform oral sex on a villain.
Maxine (TV Show)
The main male character is discussed to have assaulted children and teenagers. None of this is shown on screen.
Mayans M.C. (TV Show)
S1E4+6: a presumably underage female character working as a sex worker has an off-screen sexual relationship with an adult. After running away from her father, she gets into a truck and offers a sexual favor to the driver, who accepts. She also takes off her shirt infront of the main character to show the same truck driver beat her after she tried stealing from him. S1E5: one of the main couples, having a toxic relationship, have a disagreement that leads to them physically hitting each other. It ends with them kissing and sleeping together. In a later season, the husband chokes his wife while they sleep together with the intent to kill her but is unable to go through with it. He later on drugs her wine while she is in the bath and waits for her to drown but is unable to go through with it. After learning about that attempt, she tries to flee with her child but in the end of he takes the child and forces her to return. S2E2: a recurring female character is taken advantage of while under the influence of drugs. She later meets with her rapist, who is caught and murdered. A bystander to the assault appears in later episodes. S3E8: the main characters love interest is cat-called by two men who also make racist remarks. She attempts to leave the situation but the main character gets into a fight with the two men resulting in her being accidentally hit and getting a black eye.
Medium (TV Show)
S1E14: a child (said to be around the age of 4) is abducted and the abductor (a grown man) is shown to be likely naked and touching her. Rape and sexual assault are heavily implied. He finally buries her alive. S1E15, S2E12, S3E4: the spirit of a rapist possesses doctors in order to gain access to young female patients. There are several graphic verbal descriptions of this. S1E12: the protagonist has a vision that a woman she is talking to was raped by a cop years before. S3E18: a man gets violent when the woman he is with changes her mind about having sex with him (21:06-22:01). The scene cuts when she points a knife at him and there is never a clear confirmation of what happened next in that occasion. S4E2: a character relives a memory of a teenage girl that was alone with a police officer in his car and realized he was not taking her home as promised. It is implied that she was sexually assaulted by the officer, but never managed to report it. S4E9+10: 2-part episode about young women who were abducted and repeatedly sexually assaulted while captive. While there are no graphic scenes of the assaults, they show some memories of one of the women's captivity and the subject is discussed at length. S5E8: the protagonist has a dream about a home invasion where one of the female victims is raped by one of the invaders. It shows her being dragged to the other room in one scene and, on the other scene, the man closing his pants back after, with her half dressed on the bed behind him. The matter is discussed throughout the episode, as the case is investigated.
The Memorist (TV Show)
S1E14: the main character uses his memory scan powers on a politician. A rape is briefly seen in memory scan flashback (56:11-56:22). S1E15: rape is discussed and characters talk about what happend to the victim. More flashbacks. A girl is walking in the woods and a group of guys corner her (25:20-31:40).
The Mentalist (TV Show)
As a crime procedural show, there are multiple cases of killers and perpetrators committing acts of sexual assault, such as in episode one where a teenage daughters diary reveals her father was sexually abusing her. There is also an episode where a teacher sleeps with their teenage student. There are also victims who were said to have been raped but it is not shown. S1E22: the director of a wilderness “wellness program for young adults” assaults / rapes his student. It is not shown, only mentioned and confirmed by the victim that was under pressure to perform certain acts. When she is asked, she says she did not want to have sex with the man. S2E3: the episode is focused on the case of a serial child rapist. Ages are mentioned, a vengeful parent is shown. There are no images or vivid descriptions of the crimes. S2E11: a woman is kissed by am intoxicated man who confuses her for someone else. Even with that context, it is clear that the person he intended to kiss would have been assaulted as well. S2E14: a young woman mentions someone is threatening her, and that he beats her and “has sex” with her after he gets high on cocaine. The cops across her make sure she knows it is assault, and not normal. One is focused on discovering who murdered a housekeeper's daughter, as the eldest son is convicted of her crime but insists he is innocent. it is revealed that the father had an affair with the housekeeper so the eldest son and the housekeeper's daughter were siblings and would hence make their romantic affair an incestuous one. Neither character knew they were related to each other and both die at the end of the episode.
Metod (TV Show)
Midsomer Murders (TV Show)
Mind Over Murder (TV Show)
The documentary is about the rape and murder of a woman. The assault is discussed frequently, graphic confessions regarding the assault are shown and read aloud, and re-enactments show the assault multiple times.
Mindhunter (TV Show)
The series revolves around interviews with serial killers, many/most of whom have also committed sexual crimes. S1E1: rape is briefly mentioned in the context of a crime scene reconstruction (33:47-33:36). Description of a crime scene, including the bodies of a woman and her young son, who have been beaten, sexually assaulted and murdered (51:59-54:54). This verbal description is accompanied by a series of relatively graphic photographs of the crime scenes and bodies. S1E2: a man discusses some of his past violent sexual attacks (26:41-27:02). This continues in more general terms until roughly the 29:20-minute mark, including the man's description of his intense contempt for women in general. Brief mention of a violent rape and murder (29:33). Discussion of a sexual assault (groping, assault), accompanied by photographs of a beaten and bruised elderly woman (33:08-33:12). Mention of rape (40:49-40:54). A man describes murdering his mother and 'humiliating' the corpse (43:00-43:32). S1E3: mention of rape/necrophilia in passing (07:40-07:45). Discussion of a sexual assault against an elderly woman, accompanied by relatively graphic photographs of the crime scene and body (14:51-15:04). This continues - with occasional, briefer flashes of the photographs - in more general terms until roughly 16:17. A man mentions his desire to rape women (27:55-28:09). S1E4: rape mention in passing around the 4:00-minute mark. A man mentions the women who he raped (06:20-06:25). He mentions these crimes again between 07:50-08:00 and discusses them again between 9:40-12:59. Rape mention in passing (20:10). A brief description of a rape/murder (20:10-20:26). Rape mention (25:27). Brief, general discussion of rape (44:17-44:32). S1E5: Mention of rape in the context of discussing a murder (15:18-15:35). Much of the episode revolves around the murder and sexual mutilation of a woman: includes some factual descriptions of her injuries, but no images. S1E6: mention of sexual assault - description of a situation where a man wanted to sleep with his girlfriend but knocked her out when she didn't comply (04:30-04:40). Rape mention (06:20-06:30) and rape discussed generally/alluded to during the process of an interrogation until 07:00. Rape mention (16:10-16:20). The details of this crime are mentioned and discussed more generally until the 17:50 mark. Rape mentions in passing, referencing the circumstances of an investigation (25:00-25:23). S1E7: a man begins masturbating while two FBI agents and a guard are present - non-graphic, no nudity is shown but the man's back is seen and sounds are heard (25:25-25:44). Rape mention in passing, in the context of discussing various violent crimes (roughly 38:55). S1E8: discussion about a school employee (principal) who 'has a thing for tickling' young children (under 10) in his care, when they are sent to his office for disciplinary reasons - it is strongly implied that this has a sexual overtone, is inappropriate and may lead to more overt sexual advances towards children in the future (7:09-8:40). This is mentioned again in another conversation (10:20-11:35) and again until 12:52 in a discussion with a police officer who denies the seriousness of the reports. A mention of necrophilia (19:40-19:43) and discussion of sexual assault until roughly 20:52, with the implication that a victim 'probably liked' being coerced to take sexual photographs. Mention of violent necrophilic act (25:50-26:00). Discussion about the actions of the school employee mentioned earlier in the episode (28:00-28:40). Another discussion about this, with the perpetrator (who defends his actions), occurs from roughly 28:55-30:30 and more generally, amongst other characters, until 37:10, when they return to discussions with the perpetrator until 38:30. A brief discussion about the school employee who tickles children in his care (roughly 48:38-48:50) and again in general slightly later (43:25-46:04). A discussion regarding the continued employment of the aforementioned school employee and the potential for his behaviour towards children to escalate (49:50-50:46). S1E9: graphic sexual threats, which are not acted upon, from a man in a cell (06:40-07:37). These include slurs for POC and LGBT people. Reference to potentially forced fellatio, in passing (09:10-09:15). Discussion of rape and murder, with the perpetrator of these crimes (11:45-13:30). Discussion of violent sexual crimes (18:40-19:35). Conversation with the wife of the school employee from the previous episode who was fired for tickling children, in which she expresses anger regarding her husband's dismissal and subsequent ostracisation from their community (23:20-25:28). Discussion of the kidnapping, rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, accompanied by black and white photographs of the crime scene and corpse which show no nudity or gore (26:41-29:40). Further discussion of this incident, without the photos, continues in other settings until 33:10. S1E10: mention of the rape of a child, in passing (04:03). Discussion in which a 12-year-old girl is talked about in sexual terms, in order to make a suspect feel at ease (12:00-14:07 and 15:22-19:03). Brief mention of the previous discussion about the sexual appeal of very young girls (21:00-21:10). Mention of rape, in passing (25:11). Mention of rape (27:10-27:25). Mention of the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, in passing (39:35-39:41). A number of sketches of nude women bound and apparently in distress are seen as they are thrown into a fire (49:00-49-48).
Miss. Fisher's Murder Mysteries (TV Show)
Sexual violence is mentioned several times throughout the course of the series. S1E1: the murder victim is a rapist. His crimes are never shown but they are mentioned. S1E3: a woman is blackmailed into providing sexual favours to a man. S1E4: a romantic relationship between a step-mother and step-son is mentioned. Earlier in the episode, the characters assumed the relationship was between the brother and his sister. No sexual content is shown. S1E7: the show references the main character's previous abusive relationship, showing some non-consensual touching and kissing. S1E9: an adult male has an ongoing relationship with two teenagers, murdering one and attempting to murder the other. The relationship is not shown on-screen in explicit detail. He is arrested for his crimes. S1E12: an underage character who is involved in sexual relationships with two adults is murdered. S2E1: brief mention of marital rape. S2E8: an incident in which a woman is drugged (potentially with 'sinister motives') is mentioned. The discussion does not go further into the topic. S2E12: one plot point is the human trafficking of women.
The Missing (TV) (TV Show)
The show centers on sexual predators who prey on children.
Mobland (TV Show)
S1E4: a woman is grabbed in a threatening manner. S1E4+9: flashbacks show a man being raped in prison by a guard. S1E10: a wife and husband discuss the fact that she knows about him having been repeatedly raped in prison (49:00). She also reveals that she had been repeatedly raped by her father when she was a child. The discussion is mutually supportive and does not go into detail.
Money Heist (TV Show)
S1E1: a graphic scene shows a 17-year-old girl being assaulted on-screen. S1E7 : a woman offers herself sexually to a man who is holding her hostage. Although this scene is ostensibly consensual as she initiates the interaction, the implication is that she is doing this in order to ensure her own safety. A man discovers the woman he loved and thought was dead is in fact alive and attempts to have sex with her while she resists. A man kisses a child who is being held hostage. S1E8: a woman kisses a female student who is an hostage. There is a clear power imbalance. S3E8: a man offers a woman who he is holding hostage some sleeping pills. Once she is unconscious, he touches her inappropriately and without her consent. Later, she confronts him for having assaulted her and he denies that this ever happened, telling her that her perception of events is unreliable due to the pills she had taken.
Monsieur Spade (TV Show)
In a flashback, a veteran of war relives witnessing the rape of a civilian in front of her children. Worthy of note: there is a flirtation between an adult in his 20s and a 15 year old girl. He describes himself as a "patient man" to another character in regards to her age. It is unclear how the girl feels about the relationship, she seems to flirt and enjoy his attentions but also uses his this as a distraction to pick his pocket, etc.
Monster: the Ed Gein Story (TV Show)
This series has multiple visuals of dead, nude women in sexual and non-sexual situations. There are intense moments of vulnerability and fear from women by men. These situations are inspired by the real life serial killer Ed Gein. There are mentions and visual depictions from other infamous serial killers as well who have raped and killed people. S1E1: a Jewish woman is chased around a house wearing nothing but a bra and underwear by a nazi woman with a whip on a horse while a crowd of other Jewish people and Nazis watch. A man digs up a dead woman from her grave and undresses her in his home to her underwear. He does this with the intention of dressing her as his deceased mother. S1E2: a box filled with preserved vulvas is shown as a quick flash. A chair is made of a human woman’s skin. Her breast is used as the seated part of the chair. Necrophilia is mentioned. A man spies on a naked woman through a hole in the wall. A man brutally attacks a woman while she is naked in the shower stabbing her repeatedly. S1E3: a woman mentions that a studio is looking for a new genre of movies they call “sex horror” and a man says that the studios like to see movies about sex crimes and suggests “the rape of a vampire” as an example. A movie depicts a nude woman tied up to a table screaming for help and begging to be let go. The audience in a theatre is filled with people cheering and a woman is visibly upset and leaves out of discomfort while the woman in the movie cries in pain. A woman is kidnapped and tied to a chair wearing nothing but a bra and panties. She cries and begs while her kidnapper yells at her. The man removes the bra and underwear off a dead woman and wears it. A nude, dead woman is hung upside down and her labia is cut off. A man mentions that Ed Gein dug up women and raped their bodies. S1E5: a woman insinuates that a man regularly rapes his prized pig and ties it up so it can’t move. A woman tells another woman that her son is a rapist. A woman tells her husband to stop driving her home because he wants to have sex. She repeatedly tells him no, and they talk about him taking her choice away about having sex. She instead tells him that he should have sex “with someone who can’t say no. A dead person.” He hesitates and doesn’t think it’s okay, but she convinces him. They then go to a graveyard to dig up a freshly buried woman. He brings her home and lays her body on his dinner table and rapes her deceased body. A man masterbates at a public movie theatre but is not caught. A woman goes to an interview with a male photographer, she shows him Polaroid pictures of the women that were murdered and he tells her she’s crazy and probably only good in bed. Nude bodies of hundreds of dead Jewish people are scene in piles at a concentration camp. The main character rapes the dead woman’s body for a second time. This scene is intertwined with a scene of a prison guard having consensual sex with a female prisoner. The woman who previously suggested he have sex with a dead woman, comes over to have sex with the main character. He begins to finger her but stops and tells her that her body is too warm. He then makes her an ice bath to cool her body down. S1E6: police discover the box of dried vulvas and a woman’s skinned chest hanging from a line. A woman’s body is found hanging in a barn with her head and vagina removed. The murderer gave human meat to others under the guise that it was deer meat. S1E7: a woman catches her adult son masturbating and scolds him by grabbing his penis and yelling at him. A man wears the cut off face, breasts, and labia of a dead woman. S1E8: this episode starts out with a reenactment of one of Ted Bundy’s murders. He kidnaps and hogties two girls who appear to be teenagers. He tells them he’s going to rape them and then kill them. He comes across the two girls after they’re deceased later on, and it is implied that he has sex with their dead bodies. The rapes are not shown on screen. Two cops explain to an imprisoned serial killer that there is a Northwest serial killer on the loose who is raping girls and women. The imprisoned serial killer explains that he liked to murder people, keep their shoes, and masturbate into the shoes. He explains that he used to masturbate into his mother’s panties after she beat him. He also explained that he’d smell girl’s panties and wear them. He then processes to masturbate in front of the cops. Crime scene photos of Ted Bundy’s victims are shown. A cop asks if the photos are arousing to Ed Gein and he says no, but they might have been when he was younger. Ted Bundy breaks into different women’s college dorms and murders them. Rape is implied. A serial killer mentions he was a necropheliac. Another serial killer says he cut off women’s breasts and feet.
Monster: the Jeffrey Dahmer Story (TV Show)
Monster (TV) (TV Show)
E49: a young child witnesses a prostitute being raped by a professor on a trash can.
Mortel (TV Show)
Season 1: the main male character is thought to have raped the main female character. It is later proven to not be true. S2E5: it is strongly implied that a character was abused by his coach as a child. The coach's son also says that his father abused him. This is briefly discussed in later episodes. A character is exposed for helping drug girls.
Mr. Mercedes (TV Show)
The majority of potentially troubling content relates to the relationship between a parent and their child. While no sexual abuse is shown while the son is still a child, the abuse is mentioned several times and there are several scenes in which the abuse is shown to continue into his adulthood.
Mr. Robot (TV Show)
S1E1: child pornography is mentioned near the beginning of the episode. A character refers to a type of malicious software as "a serial rapist with a very big dick" S1E2: a woman is found naked and unconscious in a bathtub. She explains that she and a man got high together, but that she doesn't remember anything after that point - especially having had sex with him. She chooses not to report the incident, despite her friend's insistence that she should. Later, the man who she had been with boasts about having raped her, in code, on Twitter. S1E5: as a power play, one of the characters follows another into the bathroom while she is peeing. She says not to come in but he does. He stands silently and watches her, before leaving. S1E6: a woman is violently murdered by a man who previously raped her. A lawyer says that her client violently raped his pregnant girlfriend S1E7: a woman is strangled to death during what began as a consensual sexual encounter. A man in a position of power tells a young woman that if she wants what she asks for, she will have to perform oral on him first: she stands her ground and leaves. S2E5: a man is revealed to run a black market website that deals in sex slaves, among other illicit goods and services. S2E7: a gang corners a man in an alleyway and attempts to rape him. This scene is violent and graphic and may potentially be disturbing for some viewers. S2E11: a very young girl asks a grown woman whether she 'cries during sex.' S4E7: two characters discuss their experience of child sexual abuse in-depth (one of them was abused by his father). Half the episode is devoted to the subjet. Additionnally, one character strokes another character's without her consent. It is briefly and vaguely implied (one line) that a main character sexually abused another main character in the past, and that she may be a serial abuser.
Murdoch Mysteries (TV Show)
As a mystery show, several cases involve sexual assault. The main character (a man) is also assaulted on screen several times. S1E10: child sexual abuse discussed, not shown on screen. S3E02: sexual assault of a young Chinese immigrant, off screen prior to start of episode. S3E04: pedophilia mentioned, pedophile brought in for questioning, no child sexual abuse occurs. S4E10: attempted sexual assault off screen prior to episode. S4E11: no sexual assault, but does involve young girls being coerced by an older man into 'liasons'. It is mentioned that the man was previously accused of sexual assault. S5E12: a main character is stalked by a former partner, the man is prevented from assault, but the scene implies that he would have attempted to assault her. S7E09: the main character is forcibly kissed by recurring villain. S8E01-02: episodes involve discussion of human trafficking of young women and girls. No explicit sexual contact on screen, but the implication is there. S8E07: discussion of pedophilia and minors engaging in sex work (human trafficking). Nothing on screen or graphic mentioned. S8E11: a male main character is harassed by a woman, including the woman letting herself into his hotel room. S8E13: a female nurse is accused of sexually assaulting female inmates at a psychiatric hospital. By the end of the episode, it is revealed that a male caretaker was the perpetrator. A main character is forcibly kissed by a recurring villain. S9E04: murdered women are electroplated and displayed naked in public. S9E15: a woman is implied to have sexually assaulted male workers at her husband's mill. Attempted assault of main character interrupted. S9E18: the main character is kidnapped and assaulted (forcibly kissed, tied up, on screen attempted rape). The scene is the most explicit in the show (14:00-15:00). The perpetrator is a woman, the survivor is a man. S10E06: character was assaulted prior to episode. Nothing explicit on screen, but survivor tells the story. Other characters say victim blaming things, but this is not said by any of the protagonists. Protagonists do not appear to be victim blaming. S10E9: a young couple is in the back of a car, and the man pressures the woman to kiss despite her protests to leave. He then forcibly kisses her. S10E10: flashback to previous sexual assault of main character, forcible kiss from S7E09. S12E3: one of the bridesmaids at a wedding attempts to force a man into sex despite his protests.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (TV Show)
S1E1: a group of men threatens to strip a girl and post her naked body on the internet. The scene is pretty triggering as the vibe was set as if they would probably done more if the main protagonist walked away.
My Name (TV Show)
Narcos (TV Show)
S1E2: gang rape, aftermath on-screen. The scene is fairly explicit/violent. S1E6: a man harasses a maid who is clearly afraid of him and does not reciprocate. Later, he hugs her from behind and kisses her neck, while she protests that she is married and yells “don’t touch me.” That’s as far as it goes.
NCIS (TV Show)
S1E2: in the very beginning of the episode, a couple is in a car. The guy tries to pressure the girl into having sex, she says no repeatedly. He is stopped.
A Nearly Normal Family (TV Show)
Night Stalker: the Hunt for a Serial Killer (TV Show)
In this documentary series, survivors detail their accounts of being raped and molested by serial killer Richard Ramirez over multiple episodes. This includes survivors who were children at the time. There are also pictures and details recounted by police and reporters about what victims experienced, beyond sexual violence, including mutilation and murder.
Noir (TV Show)
Numb3Rs (TV Show)
Okupas (TV Show)
This serie is a slice of life drama about the street life in Argentina during the economic crisis. It slowly becomes a hardboiled but realistic crime thriller. S1E4: one scene shows the protagonist almost getting gang-raped by the antagonist and his goons. Luckily he is saved by his friends but the longetivity, decadent atmosphere, realism, uneasiness and overall intensity of the scene make it nothing short of nightmarish.
Only Murders in the Building (TV Show)
Season 1: someone's girlfriend lies about their identity, and seducing someone to cover up their involvement in something. S1E1: a character mentions that men sexually assault women every day. S1E7: a woman gropes a man in an elevator. S2E6: a main character mentions a former coworker getting handsy at work. S2E10: a boss sexually harasses his female employee. S3E1: this episode features a mother and son kissing on the lips. She says "he's gay so I can kiss him like that". It also mentions a producer under investigation for sexual harassment. S3E7: description of someone sending unsolicited dick pics. There is a mention of sex between cousins.
Orange is the New Black (TV Show)
Rape or sexual assault discussed/mentioned/implied: In S1E8 sexual violence is threatened by a guard, who makes multiple inappropriate sexual advances, including groping an inmate in an earlier episode. In S1E10, a flashback shows the teenage years of one character, during which she lived on the streets and stole to survive. It is hinted that she left home due to a problematic family life and she makes a reference to her 'rapist stepfather.' In S7E11, a foreign woman struggles to explain that she wants to get an abortion. Eventually, a flashback strongly implies that she was raped by smugglers before entering the US. Sexual harassment on-screen: in flashbacks (S2E4), it is revealed that one character stalked a man who she'd developed an obsession with at length. This resulted in the man moving several times, changing his phone number and email, and getting a restraining order against her. Her stalking escalated into threats and eventually actual violence, with the inmate threatening to strangle him and his girlfriend and leaving a homemade explosive under his car, leading to her arrest. She continues to refer to him as her 'fiance' throughout early seasons, until the reality of the situation is exposed when the man visits her in prison and threatens to kill her if she ever comes near him or his wife again (also in S2E4). S1E3: a male guard abuses his power when patting down an inmate and gropes her breasts on screen and another woman tells after that he also grabbed her butt during the search. In season 5, prison guards are taken prisoner by inmates during a riot and subjected to a series of humiliating ordeals, often being stripped naked and/or forced to perform, notably in S5E2 (where captive guards are paraded in front of an audience of inmates and subjected to intense humiliations, including public stripping and, in one case, a forced 'cavity search') and S5E4 (where guards are forced to take part in a 'talent show' for the amusement of inmates). In S6E1, two prisoners are handcuffed to poles and sprayed with cold water as punishment for fighting: two officers force them to kiss each other (33:55). S4E2: within a flashback, a young girl is forced to do a pat down in which the officer remarks and gropes her bottom. Attempted rape: a military woman is assaulted by one of her fellow soldiers while she is asleep. She eventually wakes up and manages to stop him when he has his hand in her pants (S7E2). Rape off-screen or strongly implied: in a flashback, it is revealed that one of the prison guards previously worked at a men's high-security facility and had a romantic relationship with one of the inmates, who was severely beaten and raped by other inmates when they found out he was gay (S5E10). The circumstances of this death were covered up. Rape on-screen: In S3E10 a woman is raped by a man who she used to have transactional sex with (in a flashback). In the same flashback, her mother is seen telling her that men would always want sex from her, and that she must grin and bear it. Years later, this woman is seen to regularly engage in sexually irresponsible behaviour, resulting in multiple abortions. In season 3, she develops a relationship with a male member of the prison staff, who, in S3E10, progresses to treating her in an aggressive and demeaning fashion and eventually rapes her. He does the same on multiple occasions after this event. She and her friend plan to rape him in revenge, but never actually do. The psychological implications of her rape, as well as her relationship with the prison officer, remain a theme of the show throughout the rest of seasons 3, 4 and 5. Later, she seems to forgive him, apparently willingly initiating romantic contact. One subplot involves a prison guard coercing prisoners into giving him sexual favours by trading them for drugs which he has smuggled into the prison. In S4E6 an inmate has sex with a female guard in exchange for heroin. Worthy of note: in season 1, an inmate strikes up a romantic and sexual relationship with a C.O. and both recognise that the relationship is forbidden by prison rules. The inmate eventually becomes pregnant and decides to keep the baby, but who the father is has to be kept a secret because the father could be imprisoned for rape, as prisoners are not, by law, considered able to give consent. The inmate, her mother and the father of the baby plan for the inmate to seduce another officer and accuse him of rape in order to provide an alibi. Prison officials want to avoid a scandal so the accused officer only receives a suspension.
Ordeal By Innocence (TV Show)
S1E2: it is heavily suggested that a police constable preys on children. S1E3: it is revealed that a main character raped a teenage member of his staff, resulting in a pregnancy. Additionally, another character is drugged and has an abortion performed on her without her consent.
Oscuro Deseo (TV Show)
Season 1: the case of a little girl who was sexually assaulted and murdered gets mentioned throughout the season. S1E3: a character teaches a seminar about gender-based violence in which the subjects is discussed and some cases mentioned. S2E5: a video where a teenage boy has sex with an adult woman who is supposed to be his caregiver is explicitly shown and flashes of it appear in following episodes. S2E14: it is said that the woman had been abusing the boy for a long time, and that her husband was complicit - a woman confronts her rapist and mentions that he and his friends assaulted her together.
Oz (TV Show)
Paatal Lok (TV Show)
Peaky Blinders (TV Show)
S1E1: a character tells a woman that she would be unsafe working at a bar because the bar patrons would assault her. In a later scene, he tells the woman that if one of the bar patrons tried to assault her he would not do anything about it. In another scene, someone makes a reference to child prostitution. A brief scene shows a man having sex with a sex worker: it is unclear if she is a child (18:15). S1E3: a character forces themselves onto a woman and attempts to rape her after she resists. S1E4: a character credibly threatens to send a child to a men’s prison to be raped. This is intended to be revenge on the child’s adult brother. S1E6: a man attempts to rape a sex worker but is killed, allowing her to escape. At the end of season 2, it is implied that a character was raped in prison. S2E1: at the end of the episode, a woman is abducted to be raped in retaliation for the actions of her brothers. She is beaten, partially undressed and fondled, then rescued. S2E2: this episode starts with the sexual violence implied at the end of the previous episode with mildly graphic groping, attempted undressing, and kissing. S2E3: a woman is blackmailed into sex and raped. S2E5: a woman is blackmailed into sex. S2E6: a woman is raped on screen by a soldier during a derby race (about 34 minutes). The soldier killed shortly after. S2E7: attempted rape. In season 3, it is revealed that a main character was sexually abused as a child. The character getting revenge for his abuse becomes a major plot point in the season. The abuser is frequently shown interacting with children, though actual abuse is never depicted. S3E5: rape is briefly shown on-screen as a flashback, when a main character engages consensual sex. A male character is erotically asphyxied unwillingly. He is also raped by being coerced into sex. S4E5: a naked woman says that right before the scene, several male soldiers watched her get strip-searched. S5E1: two people kill a man who had been prostituting children. S6E5: very graphic violent sexual assault. A man’s genitals are strangled by a wire in a locker room: blood is seen dripping down his legs.
Perfume (2018) (TV Show)
The main female character has an abusive husband who rapes her. In flashbacks, it is implied that she was gang raped by three men and she is also raped by another main character. She gets pregnant and aborts the baby herself, almost dying in the process.
Person of Interest (TV Show)
S1E4: a woman is found to be planning to avenge her sister's suicide after being raped by the episode's antagonist. Other sexual assaults by the antagonist are verbally detailed by the main characters during research, nothing is shown. S1E11: a man heavily stalks a woman and gets into her apartment without her consent (35:00). Though he gets aggressive towards her, he gets stopped by other people. S5E9: two coyotes (human smugglers) threaten a woman that she will be "earning" her passage across the border a different way. One man attempts to grab her, but she successfully fights back.
Poker Face (TV Show)
S1E1: a child porn ring is discussed. Spousal domestic abuse is featured. S1E2: a guy spies on a girl with binoculars and is generally creepy toward her. S1E4: a woman is sexually harassed at work.
Police in a Pod (TV Show)
S1E2: the first half of the episode is about a 16 year old girl who ran away from home. She has been working as a prostitute and tells stories about the sex she had with grown men. The police write it all down to catch the men. She later on also reveals that her father has raped her multiple times. The police arrest her father immediately. None of what happened to her is shown on screen. There is also a woman in the episode who is being physically abused by her boyfriend.
Prison Break (TV Show)
A main character is in prison for the rape and murder of children, and there are implications that he was also raping his young cell mate. He is seen harassing young inmates. A man attempts to rape a man he plans to kill. During a riot, a group of inmates attempt to rape a female doctor. One character's mother was raped by her brother, implied to be his father. A flashback shows a boy being sexual abused by his father. Two characters, a brother and a sister, are implied to have previously had a sexual relationship. A woman is handcuffed to a rail and a man attempts to rape her. A man kisses a woman on the forehead after previously tying her to a chair, hitting her and covering her mouth with tape.
Professor T (TV Show)
The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping (TV Show)
S1E1: a woman describes her sexual assault experience: her teacher at a boarding school groomed and then sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager. She is obviously visibly upset when recounting her experience for the camera.
Psycho-Pass (TV Show)
S1E1: a woman is raped by a criminal. It is heavily implied that he has otherwise physically harmed her. Explicit scenes at 9:40-10:40 and 13:27-13:42.
Queen of the South (TV Show)
S1E1: the main character is raped on screen (27:30).
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou No Shichinin (TV Show)
This serie contains very graphic sexual violence (S1E2+6 being the most graphic). The original manga is written from a semi-autobiographical perspective.
Ratched (TV Show)
Rape is mentioned several times throughout the show. One male recurring character makes several inappropriate comments and gestures towards female characters throughout. S1E4: it is mentioned that a woman had sex with her brother in the past. He briefly puts her hand on his crotch but she stops him, stating that it will never happen again. (It is revealed in S1E6 that they in fact are not biological siblings). S1E5: a woman suffering from trauma explains under hypnosis that she was kidnapped and beaten by a group of men, who locked her up naked for days. S1E6: the backstory of the protagonist is told through flashbacks and a puppet show. She was repeatedly abused by several foster families as a child. One of these families forced her to perform sexual acts with her "brother" in front of adult who paid to watch them.
Ray Donovan (TV Show)
Child molestation is discussed throughout the series, and PTSD is shown in many episodes. S7E10: an adolescent girl is raped on-screen.
Reckless (TV) (TV Show)
S1E1: it is revealed that a female police officer was drugged and raped by several other officers while incapacitated.
Reno 911! (TV Show)
S1E5: a female officer instructs a room full of children that they were all be raped and that it is inevitable. It is played for awkward laughs. S2E3: during a skit about graffiti, a cop mentions that something is "worse or better than rape". S3E2: a 5-minute sketch focuses on a videotape that cops make a rape victim watch. He has flashbacks and is very upset by seeing the tape. The rape is described in detail, but not shown. The whole thing is played for laughs. S3E4: a cop mentions that some children are "products of rape" during a children's show taping. S3E5: a group of cops sing to students about the dangers of prison including being raped. It is played for laughs. S3E7: halfway through the episode, a woman is sexually harassed on stage. She yells for help and another woman assists her. It is played for laughs. In the end credits, cops talk about the number of rapes in the holding cell being a typo and a female officer yells: "please don't rape, it's me". It is insinuated that she has been raped before and the whole thing is played for laughs. S4E1: a male and female officer discuss a "rape shield" product for roughly 2 minutes, giving scenarios including one where the woman in the conversation relates details of her rape. They both say that if someone is raped twice, then "shame on them" because it is their fault for not being prepared. It is played for laughs. S4E2: two officers discuss travel and one says that people from a certain country "will rape you in a heartbeat". It is played for laughs. S4E3: a woman screams "rape" to escape arrest, and a man says that their group is like a family that would kill and rape each other. Everything is played for laughs. S4E5: rape is discussed in a police context. S5E9: a man tells a woman that she will be raped in jail and a second woman says that it will be very bad. S5E13: a male 911 operator tells a woman "If you've been raped, you need a confirmation number." It is a different woman calling in, and is played for laughs.
Revelations (TV Show)
The movie is about a serial rapist. He abducted a girl after being released from prison for raping the detectives' sister in the past (shecommitted suicide afterwards).The religious childhood abuse and rape of the perpetrator are also discussed.
Ripper Street (TV Show)
Riverdale (TV Show)
A teenage character has a sexual relationship with his adult teacher. He insists that she cares about him but other characters point out that the relationship is unhealthy and later episodes show that she is a serial statutory rapist. S2E5: A teenage boy forcibly kisses a woman, who pushes him away. Later in the episode, he drugs another character and attempts to rape her, but is stopped just before he is able to do so. The victim faces scrutiny for bringing this to light but ops to press charges regardless. Another character is unnerved to realise that she went drinking and partying with him dozens of times and it's implied that he may have done something similar to her, or at least tried to. Two characters who are distant cousins unknowingly commit incest, even conceiving a child together. One side of the family thinks they're far enough apart genetically that it's not a big deal, but the other side is completely disgusted. One character's father tries to force her to have an abortion without her consent, and it's revealed that he also forced his wife to give up a child for adoption. One subplot addresses a cyber sexual harasser in the school. The character is punished but eventually returns. In one scene, a character punches a man in order to reject his aggressive sexual advances. S2E19: the teenage character kidnaps one of the main characters, blackmails his girlfriend into meeting up with him at a hotel for sex. However he does not succeeed because the girl roofies him before anything can happen. S4E2: a boy makes a prison rape joke. S4E10: during a meeting, a teen girl reveals that her uncle molested her as a child. She tells her mother, who does not believe her. A male teen tells a story of his father forcing him to be with a sex worker. S4E12: a main female character recounts the time a boy tried to rape her. Her girlfriend talks about how something similar happened to her, too. The boy is later drugged and filmed being tickled. In the same episode, it is revealed that a different boy has been filming teen couples having sex without their consent. Season 5 deals with a serial murderer, who is also possibly a rapist. S5E10: a main character makes a pass at his friend while high. S6E2 mentions an older teacher having inappropriate relations with male students. S6E6: a male character asks a main female character if her current boyfriend "satisfies" her like he once did. He says "you know you want it" and makes two physical advances on her. She pushes and then punches him away, and then he calls her crazy for doing so. S6E13: he statutory rapist is brought up again.
Rizzoli & Isles (TV Show)
This shows contains mentions of sexual violence throughout. S1E1: a man breaks into a woman's home and cuts (or rips) her pyjamas off. It is revealed that she is raped: this is mentioned multiple times in the episode. S1E2: mention of rape. S1E3: a detective is told to look up for any sex offenders or predators. There is also a mention of paedophiles. S1E4: some language used can be interpreted as sexual harrassement. There is also a mention of college professors soliciting college student sex workers (seemingly consensually). S1E6: it is determined that a woman was sexually assaulted, there is mention of rape and a hate crime. S1E7: the episode features some sexual harassment (which seems to be played for laughs). It is discovered that a shooting victim raped a 15-year-old girl. S1E8: discussions of domestic violence. A man threatens to rape one of the main characters. S2E3: mentions of rape. S2E4: mention of rape, captivity, and sexual assault. S2E6: mention of a professor raping his student. S2E14: while the main characters are doing a self defence class, it is mentioned that the techniques are important so that they are able to fight rapists. S3E7: a man believes that he is in love with the main character. There is unconsentual touching and kissing, and an attempted rape is implied. S3E8: mention of human trafficking and rape. S4E3: mention of rape and brief mention of sex offenders. S4E4: a titular character is believed to be drugged and raped. It turns out to be false. S4E7: a teacher has unconsensual sex with his students. Some of the encounters are described and briefly shown. S4E9: mention of child abuse and rape S4E11: mention of rape. S4E13: mention of child abuse and kidnapping. S4E14: non-consensual grabbing and harassment. S6E12: at the end of the episode, a title character is abducted. There is no rape/sexual assault, but the actions are disturbing and can be triggering. S6E13: thie episode is a continuation of the previous one. There is no sexual violence, but it can be very triggering.
Rojst (TV Show)
S3E2: rape on-screen.
The Rookie (2018) (TV Show)
S1E2: two women are held captive in a basement. S1E7: a man is seen spiking a woman's drink at a party. He is caught and arrested. S1E8: a character mentions lethally shooting a rapist early in her career. S1E12: a woman becomes obsessed with a man after he saves her life. She proceeds to stalk him for the rest of the episode, including gaining access to his home through his friend and laying naked in his bed. S1E14: a man is caught secretly filming a teenage girl changing. He is revealed to be a registered sex offender. The operations of child abuse networks are briefly discussed. S2E5: a group of women is shown escaping from a human trafficking ring. Abuse is mentioned, but not described in detail. A young woman talks about being a victim of revenge porn in the past. The perpetrator was not punished for his actions. S2E10-11: a female character is abducted. This includes drugging, forced body modification (tattoo), and highly stressful situation (trapped in oil barrel and left to suffocate). S2E12: a woman discusses a night where she got too drunk with a fellow officer. It is implied that he assaulted her. S3E14: during a robbery, a woman is tied up and threatened by one of the perpetrators. He makes several threatening comments with sexual undertones towards her. S4E11: a formerly homeless young woman describes sleeping with men for a place to sleep when she was desperate. From context, she would likely have been a minor at the time of the events described. Another young woman is described as also doing this for a place to sleep. Worthy of note: A woman is tortured by her ex-boyfriend. S3E3: a woman of colour goes into labour. First the landlady of her airbnb calls the cops on her. Then, at the hospital she is subjected to misogyny by her male physician whose neglect endangers her life and her unborn child's. She also mentions earlier medical trauma surrounding a prior pregnancy. This is a theme of the entire episode and is handled in a sympathetic/informed manner. S4E10-11: a woman describes an abusive relationship, where she asked for help and was not believed. Her ex breaks into her house when she is not there and tries to ruin her career and life over the course of episodes 10. S5E11: domestic violence is mentioned, discussed, implied. A woman is briefly shown being choked up against a wall by her boyfriend.
Run Away (2026) (TV Show)
S1E6: two characters discuss another character's off-screen date rape experience and it becomes a connected to the plot.
Scott & Bailey (TV Show)
S1E2: attempted rape and rape off-screen.
Scream: the TV Series (TV Show)
A teenager has a sexual relationship with her highschool teacher. A teenager's first sexual encounter with her boyfriend is filmed without her knowledge and shared on the internet. Two teenage girls are recorded making out without their consent. The video is then leaked and comments are made about it to one of the girls throughout the series.
Secrets We Keep (TV Show)
The protagonist's husband is a convicted rapist and lawyer. Her neighbor's son (who is 14 years old) rapes their nanny and shares naked videos of her with his friends and tells the MC that he owns her so it is okay. It is implied the MC's husband also kept raping. The nanny gets killed by the rapist's mother to cover up his crimes. When the crime is taken to court, they instead try to twist it that the nanny was the violator here and took advantage of the rapist. There is no justice, and no remorse.
Sherlock (TV Show)
S3E3: a blackmailer talks about someone's husband receiving sexual letters and photos of a 15 years old. He also is into power plays and licks the wife's face. The way he talks about both the wife and the 15 years old is threatening and has sexual undertones. S4E3: a woman mentions that she raped one of the guards.
Shetland (TV Show)
S3E5: the detective’s assistant, a main character, is strategically raped in order to send the main detective ‘a message.’ The rape is not onscreen at all, but the viewer is made aware of it by watching her go through evidence collection afterwards, including a speculum being brought out for swabs. In a subsequent scene, she discusses what happened (in vague, not explicit terms) with her boss, who is supportive. Later in the episode, another woman talks about her rape too.
The Shield (TV Show)
Silent Witness (1996) (TV Show)
Silver and Gold (TV Show)
S1E7: a young woman is manipulated by her ex boyfriend into playing poker and ends up losing a big sum of money. The ex boyfriend and his friends want her to pay by selling her body, amused by how distraught she is. They proceed to rape her onscreen and after the act they humiliate her further by making fun of her. It starts at 03:45 and ends at 04:52. Further sexual abuse is depicted at the end of the episode (20:50-22:15).
Sins of Our Mother (TV Show)
S1E1: this episode alks about child sexual abuse.
Sleepy Hollow (TV) (TV Show)
Season 2: a woman agrees to live with the man she hates to protect the man she loves. She says she will grow to love the new man. People are frequently possessed, thus not being on control of their body People are lured by the pied piper. S2E7: a woman is impregnated by a demon through her nose. S2E8: this episode features a succubus. S3E11: a woman is about to be raped by a man on a first date. She is "rescued" by a creature/demon who then murders her. S3E11: a creature/demon knocks out a human to make her his wife.
Smoke (TV) (TV Show)
S1E7: a woman says that a man had a fantasy of raping her in a burning building after which she gives a very hesitant "no'"when asked if this man actually attacked her and says it was always consensual. S1E8: a woman tells a man that he has repeatedly "crossed the line" sexually and hurt her after which they proceed to have sex.
Snowfall (TV Show)
A teenager is violently raped on-screen. S1E3: a man is raped by another man off-screen. S3E1: a man grabs a woman's breast without her consent (35:06). S6E6: a main character is kidnapped and held by a group of men. It is heavily implied that she is going to be sexually assaulted and it is attempted. Although she is saved at the last minute.
Somebody (TV Show)
S1E1: rape is mentioned several times: a) a police officer mentions murder and rape b) a woman tells a man that she would freeze if he attempted to rape her c) a man kills a woman while having sex with her. S1E4: a man attempts to rape a woman in the beginning of the episode. She is able to fight him off and runs away, but the aggressor proceeds to chase her together with several other men. She is found by one of them and she kills him when he attempts to rape her. After this, the other men flee and call themselves the victims of the situation. S1E7, 43:30-46:00: a man accidentally kills a woman while choking her during sex (both consensual: she repeatedly asks him to choke her harder, but he does not notices her suffocating.)
Someone Has to Die (TV Show)
S1E1: marital rape (~14:00). Female prisoners are beaten and humiliated.
Sons of Anarchy (TV Show)
S1E1: two women are mentioned to have been forced to perform sexual acts on a group of men. S1E3: in the first 10 minutes of the episode, a 13 year old girl lies in the dirt, stripped with her pants down, impliying that she was raped. S1E7: a man is instructed to initiate sex with an unwilling woman. She successfully fends him off. S1E8: a man who stalked one female characters returns to town. He is violent and she has a restraining order against him. This culminates in him hiding in her house and attempting to rape her (approximately 38 minutes into the episode). There is also an episode revolving around a teenage girl getting sexually abused by a group of men. Season 2: one of the characters is raped as a means to humiliate her and her husband. S4E1: an inmate makes a pass at a MC member: nothing comes from it. S5E5: an insurance agent is drugged, and, while unconscious, posed with a prostitute for blackmail purposes. The poses involve much unconsensual touching. S5E6: a character forces two other characters to get naked and get in bed together at gunpoint (about 20 minutes in). S6E1: an MC member is shown being raped in prison by another inmate as a guard looks on (about 6 minutes into the episode). A girl is beaten by a group of men, who are forcing girls to have sex with them and brutally treat them (about 15 minutes into the episode). They record it on video to sell it afterwards. It is mentioned, that the girls did not know, that they have sex with a group and are brutally treated by the (about 24 minutes into the episode). S6E1: a character tells that she has been assaulted (about 21 minutes into the episode) S6E5: guards force a couple to have sex, threatning to rape the woman if they do not (about 45 minutes into the episode). S7E10: one character is raped in prison (during the opening sequence). S7E12: the same character is raped by a rival club member (about 16 minutes into the episode).
The Sopranos (TV Show)
Domestic violence against partners and violence against sex workers is commong throughout the whole show. S1E9: a subplot involves a high school girl practicing self-harm. It is revealed later in the episode that she had sex with her soccer coach (a celebrated figure in the episode). He ends up getting arrested. S1E11: a male character is pressured to undress in order to check for a wire, the character is clearly uncomfortable and is trying to leave the situation. S2E9: the protagonist mentions people going to hell and lists "people who molest little kids". S3E4: a woman is raped in a parking garage (17:30-19:34). The following scene shows her talking to detectives at the hospital. In the remainder of the episode, it is revealed that the cops messed up the case and that the rapist is allowed to walk free. The victim coincidentally sees that he is an employee at a restaurant nearby and fantasizes about the protagonist killing him. S3E6: this episode's plot is largely themed around sexual exploitation. Scenes involve a young stripper being made to perform a threesome she is clearly uncomfortable with by her abusive boyfriend, her employer physically assaulting her and making degrading sexual comments when she fails to show up for work (her boyfriend is unsympathetic and laughs at this). There are scenes where a bouncer at a strip club tells the strippers that they are required to perform sexual acts if they want entry to the VIP room, and a violent, fatal beating of a woman by her boyfriend which is not sexual in nature but is disturbing. S3E8: a man at a party leans over a woman kissing her while shes passed out mumbling and states “wake up come on, i cant stop now”. S5E1: about 2/3 of the way through the episode, a man kisses a woman without her consent. S5E10: two men threaten to rape another man with an object if he does not give them information they seek. S6E12: a man is beaten to death and it is implied that he was raped with an object while this occurs. S6E19: a man verbally harasses a young woman. The harassment is mentioned again later in the episode.
Spawn (TV Series) (TV Show)
The entirety of season 1 involves a pedophile who is raping and murdering children. While it happens mostly off screen, it is heavily implied that he is about to rape a child on screen before the main character stops him. The main character disguises himself in season 3 and tricks a woman into having sex with him.
Spotless (TV Show)
A man has sex with a deceased person: we can see him on top of her and getting off doing up his trousers. It is discussed how taht same man had sex with his deceased wife to ‘love her back to life’. A niece tries to seduce her uncle. It is heavily implied that a teen girl going to be exploited to adult man, but is saved by her father before anything happens.
Startup (TV Show)
S1E1: a character gets intimate with another character. It is clear that one is not enjoying it and only doing it so to have a roof over the head. There is no choice to say no because the character has nowhere to go: no signs of direct force but also no consent either. S1E2: one character opens the shirt of someone without asking (around 31 minutes in). S2E8: during a meeting, a character is exposed to have done intimate pictures. It is also implied that another character showed them to a colleague without consent. In S3E5+6, we learn that a character (who insisted on being hurt during sex in season 2) was abused as a 15-year old by multiple business partners of their father. The character meets one abuser again and confronts them in a meeting. The abuser tries to gaslight and talk everything down. The father of the character admits, that he knew somehow wrong was going on but was not sure and he victim blames the character. No details are given but it is a big part of the plot.
Stateless (TV Show)
This series features sexual assault, PTSD, and child abuse.
Superjail! (TV Show)
The Suspect (TV) (TV Show)
The sex trade is a theme in this series, with women in the trade being murdered. S1E1: we learn through dialogue that a main character has historically been accused of sexual assault. S1E2: a woman clearly feels violated and that she hasnot given fully informed consent when she realises that her husband, by cheating on her without protection, has put her at risk of contracting an STD. S1E3: a woman who has a history in the sex trade mentions an occasion in her past when she was raped by six men, and further traumatised by the police reaction (the rape is not described in any further detail). S1E5: two men in the series are revealed to be brothers. When they were children, their mother regularly sold both of them to be sexually abused by a paedophile ring. There are some flashbacks but not of the actual sexual abuse, which is never shown onscreen.
S.W.A.T. (TV Show)
S1E6: there is a discussion of whether a teenage girl was raped in a home invasion and later on a female character describes a violence she suffered as a teenager, but does not clearly say if she was sexually assaulted, though it could be interpreted as such. Worthy of note: the episode also features sextorsion. S2E9: the main character’s sister gets drugged at a bar but escapes a man who is revealed to be a serial rapist. His crimes are discussed for the rest of the episodes as they look for him. S3E9: the team tracks down a child sex trafficking ring. S4E17: the team tracks down a sex trafficking ring that operates at truck stops. S6E18: the team chases a child sex trafficking ring and one of the victims. One of the child victims fell in love with her trafficker. S6E19: the episode is about a prison guard who rapes female inmates. Nothing is shown but it is talked about in detail from one of the victims.
The Take (TV Show)
Teenage Bounty Hunters (TV Show)
S1E1: in the first scenes of the episode, a man explicitly states that he is religious and thinks that he and his girlfriend should save themselves for marriage. He starts to pray and the girl ignores what he wants and gets on top of him and has sex with him. After that, he keeps asking if what they did was ok. At some point, a main character says that her friend's dad said that she was 'developing nicely' when she was a younger teen. Additionnally, during this episode, the two main characters chase a man who has beatn up a sex worker.
Tell Me Your Secrets (TV Show)
Terriers (TV Show)
S1E6: a drunk character says no to a man trying to put her in his car. A few scenes later she wakes up in the same man’s bed without her clothes on, implying that the man raped her.
Texhnolyze (TV Show)
The main character is implied to be coerced into sex multiple times in the series starting in the first episode and other times during the series. There also happens to be a scene where a female side-character is threatened with implications of possible rape.
This is England '86 (TV Show)
S1E2: child abuse is discussed S1E3+4: explicit on-screen rape and attempted rape.
A Thousand Blows (TV Show)
S1E1: there is a sudden violence sexual threat from a man against ta woman using a weapon.
Tiger King (TV Show)
S1E3: a woman explains that she was raped when she was 14. Worthy of note: it is implied that two men were coerced into or otherwise unhappy in their relationships with another man, who was able to exert a degree of control over them through various means. Another man lives with a number of women, with all of whom he is sexually involved. It is discussed that these women usually became involved with this man when they were very young and that he exerts a high degree of control over their lives (including having them work for him, provide all of their income and dictate what they should wear). S2E2: a character is revealed to be going to Costa Rica regularly to hire trafficked children as prostitutes.
Too Old to Die Young (TV Show)
S1E1: the episode opens with a policeman showing a nude picture a woman sent him to his colleague (other men look at it later on). He then proceeds to say that he will have to kill the woman, who is his mistress. The next scene shows the same man pulling over a woman: with his colleague standing next to him, he makes inappropriate comments and acts threatening to her (hinting that he will force her to give him sexual favours). She seems very distressed during the whoe scene (which is very long). He eventually forces her to pay to leave. The male protagonist (in his thirties) has entertains a romantic relationship with a high school girl (17 year old). The fact that their love affair is illegal is mentioned several times throughout the episode: their affair goes on during the next episodes, and they are showed sharing intimate moments. The final scene shows a woman restrained and covered in blood, who has been beaten by a man. It is implied that 'men who hate women' would harm her if the protagonist does not kill her (which he is implied to do off-screen). S1E2: human trafficking is a central theme of this episode, with female prostitues being referred to and treated as merchandise (sexual violence is heavily implied several times). In the last part of the episode, a man (leader of a cartel) grabs a woman's hair in a club, drags her in front of a whole audience and she is implied to be abused and gang raped off-screen by the men. An elderly and terminally ill man entertains an ambiguous relationship with his very young nurse, whom he says he found naked in the desert. Several dialogues imply a potential incestuous relationship between this man and his late sister. S1E3+4: paedophilia is an important plot point of these two episodes, dealing with people killing peadophiles and rapists. The crimes of the latter are mentioned throughout, but not depicted on screen. In the final scene of S1E4, one character is proposed to become the pimp of prostitutes: he declines. S1E5: this whole episode is about a man killing two men who make snuff movies (people getting raped). The opening scene shows one man being interrogated (increasingly uncomfortable), drugged, obliged to sign a consent form and then raped by two men (grabbed on-screen then raped off-screen, with sounds of struggle being heard). Incest is also mentioned during the interrogation. Video of their films is shown to the protagonist (not shown on-screen). A long scene shows a woman in her underwear being watered by one of the snuff movies producers with a hose, who then fondles her, grabs her by the throat and strips her naked with a knife: she seems increasingly uncomfortable and tense. While the scene seems to suggest that she will get raped, it ends with the man painting her toe nails. The episode ends with the antagonist digging up a woman he presumably raped and buried alive in the desert. S1E6: it is implied (through dialogues and non explicit flashbacks) that a man has entertained incestuous desires towards his mother since he was a teenager. The episode closes with him performing oral sex on his wife, who says that she is the reincarnation of his late mother. S1E7: the assassination of child molesters is discussed and shown on screen. The relationship of the male protagonist (30 year old) and his young girlfriend is also mentioned and shown on-screen: the latter is shown turning 18 and the couple is shown having sex. It is then revealed that the father of the girl watched her without their consent: he also explains that he was jealous since he always wanted to have sex with his own daughter: he then starts masturbating next to the protagonist, who ends up killing him. Before that, the father asked the protagonist to get dressed in front of him, and showed him a movie where two cops sexually assault and rape a woman (verbal assault is shown on-screen, rape implied off-screen). S1E8: the assassination of child molesters is discussed and shown on screen. The relationship of the male protagonist (30 year old) and his 18 year old girlfriend is also mentioned (it is described as statutory rape since it started when the girl was 16). Women (who are prostitutes 'owned' by a cartel) are held captive in stables: they are raped off-screen by a group of men (we hear them scream). Later on, several of them are shown being tied to their bed in a motel, next to the clients who raped them: a woman comes and kill all the men. There is also a consensual SM sex scene where the woman strangles and ties up her husband with a whip, which she puts into his anus. S1E9: a husband and wife roleplay (and have sex), with the woman impersonating the late mother of the man, with whom he entertained an incestuous relationship. A man mentions that he wants to use rape against his enemies and their female relatives. The assassination of paedophiles and rapistes is discussed and shown on screen. A woman tells an early version of the Red Riding Hood, where the wolf rapes the girl multiple times. S1E10: rape, incest and child sex abuse are mentioned several times. A woman rescues prostitutes 'owned' by a cartel by killing all men in a bar/brothel.
Top of the Lake (TV Show)
The plot revolves around the investigation of multiple cases of child sexual abuse. There is a scene where a character describes that she had gotten pregnant as a result of rape and was forced by her family to carry and bear the child. There is a scene where a teenage girl is forcibly taken away and gang raped by some of her schoolmates - her boyfriend tries to make it stop but does not succeed.
Tracker (TV Show)
S2E9: sexual assault is mentioned. S2E16: heavy undertones of sexual torture and abuse. A cult-like family kidnaps girls to torture and rape until death. It is never stated outright but through comments of “lesser acts”. One woman is held captive as a sexual slave and is forced to help her captors “train” other kidnapped women. S2E18: a woman gets kidnapped for her baby. S2E20: child trafficking. S3E16: this episode features a victim of kidnapping who has been raped and now works with the kidnappers under distress.
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 (TV Show)
This documentary explores how the Woodstock Festival of 1999 turned from a run-of-the-mill music festival into a riot, including (but not exclusively discussing) the multiple graphic accounts of rapes, molestations, and other assaults that took place during those horrific three days, particularly during the performances of heavier bands - especially Korn and Limp Bizkit - as well as the closing night of the event. S1E1: remarks are made about the sexual harassment of Sheryl Crow during her set; references to the Bill Clinton abuse scandals; on-screen depiction of American Pie's stripping scene; unconsensual groping captured by the pay-per-view crew; women being molested while body-surfing; at the end of the episode, foreshadowing for Day 2 includes a group of men tugging a body-surfing woman down into the crowd beyond camera view, presumably to be gang raped, and footage of a naked woman being resuscitated by a medic. S1E2: fully-naked men and women, almost all completely under the influence of drugs and several women being forcibly groped; an MTV commentator reveals that a concert-goer tried to assault her with a lit cigar. From the moment the 4:00pm ticker appears on-screen, things get more severe - women begin recounting how they were groped and surrounded by men demanding they strip for them or give them sex; a series of photographs show one body-surfer nearly had her clothes torn off by male attendees while still body-surfing; as soon as Limp Bizkit's set ends, chaos reigns - a woman can be seen being pulled down from body-surfing to be assaulted; a chilling female scream can be heard during the scene transition to the Rave Tent for Night 2; during Fatboy Slim's set, topless women can be seen getting groped against their will; Limp Bizkit's manager describes seeing men having sex with women who are too high/drunk to consent; a stage producer describes opening a van that was driven into the audience and seeing a man in his 30s putting his pants on and a 15-year-old girl passed out, pants down and bleeding from her genitals; another producer describes a line of women who couldn't consent being pressed against the hangar wall and raped. S1E3: the MTV commentator remarks how she saw a lot of the audience stark naked as well, with women still getting groped against their will; in the final minutes discussing the aftermath, one of the coordinators of the event recalls being called by a mother of a rape victim; news footage accounts that four women were assaulted, with contradicting claims from attendees saying there were many more, some right in front of the main stage during performances; a series of still images at the tail end of the documentary reveal that more women were groped, molested, and pulled down by crowds to be assaulted all throughout the weekend. The mini-series is ultimately a tense, sickening watch, especially for those familiar with toxic concert culture or the phenomenon of late-90's hyper-masculinity.
True Detective (TV Show)
Throughout seasons 1 and 3, rape, torture and paedophilia are common themes even if little is depicted on screen graphically. S1E8: An incestuous relationship is shown on-screen. During this sexual encounter, one character describes his sister’s sexual assault that she experienced by their father as a child. It is portrayed that she enjoys this, and does not understand what happened to her. In season 2, one character's wife is raped. Her assault is mentioned on various occasions, but no details or flashbacks are given. Later in the season, another character has a flashback to her childhood, in which she is following an older man into a van. It is implied that she was raped, although it is never shown. S1E6: a woman rapes a drunk man as a form of revenge against her husband. Moments after realising what was done to him, the man makes her leave the house. S1E6: a woman flirts and initiates sex with a man who is very drunk and hesitant to engage. The man then leads the rest of the sexual encounter but regrets it afterward (44:30-46:30). She reveals she wanted to sleep with someone as revenge on her cheating partner. She took advantage of the man when he was intoxicated, but it was the man who performed the rest of the sexual act. S4E1: a woman and man have consensual sex. She is on top of him and at two points he tells her to wait and attempts to make her slow down: she pins his arms down and covers his mouth. This scene is not portrayed as an assault and is never brought up again.
Twin Peaks (TV Show)
The series follows an investigation into the murder of a teenage girl. It is progressively revealed that she was a prostitute at a brothel and engaged in dubiously-consensual sex with men much older than her (notably S1E8). It features several toxic and violent heterosexual marriages/relationships (especially in season 1), scenes of domestic violence (notably S1E8) and discussions of sexual violence. S1E1: a woman appears out of nowhere after having survived a kidnapping: she has bruises on her thighs. It is later stated that she was raped several times. S1E2: it is mentioned in the beginning of the episode that the victim had sex with three men before beig killed. This is repeated throughout the rest of the season. Near the end of the episode, a man beats up his wife. S1E3: two men go to a brothel, where they choose young girls to have sex with them. S1E4: a coroner reports that that the victim's killer tied her up and kissed her before killing her. The final scene shows the victim's father desperately asking women to dance with him: they rebuff him. S1E6: a teenage girl (18 year-old) being interviewed to get a job at her father's department store, blackmails the male recruiter with a fake sexual assault allegation if he does not hire her. As she is falling in love with the main character (who is in his thirties), she makes her interest apparent and even shows up in his bed naked in an attempt to seduce him. S1E7: the main character turns the teenage girl down. The same girl goes undercover at the brothel to investigate the murder victim's death: the madame hiries her despite knowing she is underage. S1E8: the father of the undercover girl enters into her room to have sex with her, not realizing that it is her. A man acts threateningly towards a woman he partnered with. A husband attempts to kill his wife (who cheated on him) by tying her up and burning her alive. Season 2: S2E1: in the brothel. the undercover girl narrowly avoids sleeping with her own father. She hides her identity and tries to rebuff him, but he insists until another character calls him out of the room. The girl is then confronted about ther attitude by the madame, who physically threatens her. She is later shown being distressed by the experience. The conditions of the murder, kidnapping and rapes (mentioned above) are described by the protagonist once again. In the final scene of the episode, flasbacks of the murder are shown, with a man standing on the victim in her underwear. S2E2: the protagonist tries to question the survivor of the kidnapping and rapes, who was in a coma. She is in a state of shock and experiences PTSD when he shows her a drawing of the presumed rapist. The undercover girl in the brothel takes advantage of the situation of a man (her boss), who is tied to ropes for a BDSM game, to obtain information from him. He admits that he uses his job as the director of a department store to recruit girls for the brothel. S2E3: the episode opens with the rape survivor having a panick attack. The undercover girl in the brothel is kidnapped, restrained, drugged and filmed in order to claim a ransom. S2E4: the undercover kidnapped girl mentioned being beaten by one of her captors. One of them kills him and she appears visibly distressed and forced to accept to embrace him. The videotape of her, crying and gagged, is shown twice throughout the episode. S2E5: the protagonist rescues the undercover girl from the brothel, where she is tied up to a bed. S2E6: a rape off-screen is implied. We see a man buckling up his belt next to a woman lying on a couch, visibly distressed by the encounter. S2E7: the undercover girl confronts her father about their encounter in the brothel he owns and he admits having sex with the murder victim, who worked as a prostitute there (teenage girl). The daughter then reveals their relationship to the protagonist. A wife who is not in her right mind after a suicide attempt kisses her husband, who clearly does not appreciate it but is afraid to rebuff her because of her new physical strength. An apparently male character enters a man's house during the night without him noticing: he kisses him without his consent and admits of being attracted to him. It is immediately revealed that the said character is in fact his supposedly late wife disguised as a man. The episode concludes with the revelation that the father of the victim has been possessed by a demon: he is shown violently beating up his niece (his daughter's look-alike), kissing her and killing her (off-screen). S2E9: the possessed father proposes to a female character (a friend of his daughter and niece) to dance with him, which she accepts. Shortly after, he suddenly hugs her, which leaves her shocked. They are interrupted by someone knocking at the door. It is finally clearly stated that the possessed father is the killer of his daughter: the protagonist reminds that he raped her before killing her. S2E11: the woman who was raped in S2E6 describes her relation with her rapist. She also mentions child trafficking. A transgender character is introduced and her identity is generally played for laughs throughout the rest of the episode she appears in. S2E12: a female character is revealed to be caught in an abusive relationship with her husband, who beats her. Near the end of the episode, we hear the couple arguing, implying that he is (or will be) beating her. S2E13: a adult woman thinking that she is a teenager and having superhuman strenght (after a suicide attempt), acting increasingly pushy towards a teenage male who is clearly not interested, kisses him and lays on him after he rejected her advances and asked her to leave him alone. He eventually consents to the romantic relationship in further episodes. In the final scene of the episode, the abusive husband (who was incapacitated since the start of the season) reappears threatening when his wife is alone at night. S2E14: the abusive husband tries to kills his wife, but he is defeated by her new boyfriend. It is mentioned that a child (a secondary character in the previous episodes) is the product of a rape. S2E15: a male antagonist threatens a female character and fondles her breast. Another male antagonist, who was previously described as a father figure to another female character, kisses her hand while discussing how much he would have to pay to own her again. S2E17: the final scene of the episode shows a woman breaking into the room of a man who is passed out drunk. She undresses, wearing only a bathrobe, and enters his bed before the episode ends. A 18 year-old woman engages in a romantic relationship with an adult man. S2E18: the episode opens with the woman fondling the sleeping man, and drugging him so he thinks she is his former lover. When she tries to strangle him, he defends himself. A man discussing with his former female lover (who is in a wheelchair) caresses her and wishes for them to be together again: she rebuffs him and he stops. S2E21: during a beauty pageant, a man holds the arm of and puts his arm around a woman who rebuffs him twice. In the final scene of the episode, the antagonist kidnaps a woman. S2E22: the antagonist takes a woman hostage to lure the protagonist somewhere. In season 3, a female character describes how she was raped and later has unconsensual sex with the doppelganger of her rapist. S3E2: the male protagonist enters a room where his presumably girlfriend waits for him in her underwear on a bed. He suddenly holds her against her will when she understands that he represents a threat. He then tells her that he will kill her and punches her in the face when she tries to flee. He eventually gets on top of her and kills her. S3E4: a FBI boss expresses his concern that an elderly male agent will go on a mission with a young female agent. He answers that he is indeed 'old school'. S3E5: in a bar, a woman asks a man for a light. He strangles her and threatens to rape her in front of her friends. S3E7: a woman confronts the antagonist. She seems very distressed when mentioning their last encounter at her home. In the end of the episode, a phone conversation revolved around the prostitution/human trafficking of underage girls. S3E10: the episode opens with a man breaking into a woman's trailer after threatening her and presumably killing her off-screen (while she is screaming). We then see her, alive but unconscious and bloody. The next scene shows another man assaulting his girlfriend and shouting at her, while standing on top of her. A female main character has sex with the protagonist even though he does not seem to be in his right mind: seemingly disoriented during the encounter, he eventually enjoys it. Later in the episode, the man from the first scene breaks into his grandmother's house, assaults her (strangling her and pushing her down) and robs her. S3E11: the first scene shows the bledding woman from S3E10 crawling out of the woods. Later on, the main characters find the headless body of a naked woman. S3E14: a group of policemen investigating a forest find a naked woman presumably lost in the woods. A female character is verbally assaulted and threatened at a bar by a man (lesbophobia): she kills him. S3E16: the female protagonist from S3E7 tells about her encounter with the male antagonist, while being very distressed. She explains that he came to her home, kissed her, and when he saw that she was frightened, enjoyed it and raped her. S3E18: a waitress is sexually assaulted.
The Umbrella Academy (TV Show)
In seasons 1 and 2, a woman makes suggestive comments towards an adult man who is stuck in his 13-year-old body. She often calls him "cute" and on one occasion (S2E7) says that he is "really starting to fill out those tight little shorts of [his]." She is shown to have no boundaries with him or with other characters, and enjoys playing mind games with him. She is also his boss at some points. Nothing ever goes past suggestion, and the man in a child's body never reciprocates or acknowledges her comments in any way. S1E2: a joke about prison rape is made about 34 minutes into the episode. S1E7: some guys sexually harasses a woman in a parking lot. Later, there is a flashback of this scene. S1E17: child abuse and sexual harassment. S1E18-19: domestic violence. S2E5 : a woman has an extramarital affair with another woman. Alongside this relationship, we see scenes where her husband insists on having sex with her despite the fact that it is clear that it bothers him. S2E6 : a woman is briefly harassed by three men in the street. She hits one of them before running away. The men chase her into a store before being threatened by another woman After being possessed, a character says "I feel so violated". S2E8 : one of the songs talks about a rapist. S3E5: a woman uses her powers on, a.k.a "rumours," his adoptive brother into "wanting her," leading to him passionately kissing her and attempting rape against his will. Moments before, the man pleads "Please. Don't do this." when she rumours him to not leave. During the attempt, she says "stop" 3 times and shouts "stop" a 4th time, breaking the spell. She pushes him off of her. This is not acknowledged or addressed as a sexual assault in the following scenes or episodes." S4E1: people are durgged against their consent. S4E4 : one of the main characters is retained prisoner by one of his enemies to whom he owes money. To reimburse him, our main character is forced to use his powers to do medium sessions in which he is possessed to maintain sex with customers. Later, that enemy plans to do the same with the character's sister. She gets out of this situation very quickly and manages to defend herself. S4E5: someone hides information from his girlfriend for 5 months that would allow her to return to her feorm life, husband, and kids. Worthy of note: two characters who are unrelated, but were raised in the same household (adopted), develop a romantic interest in one another. S1E8: a woman uses her powers to manipulate ("rumour") her ex-husband into falling in love with her. It dappens during a flashback at the start of the episode.
Unbelievable (TV Show)
The series is about a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the path to arrive at the truth. The rape is depicted on screen in the first 10 minutes of the show.
Under the Banner of Heaven (TV Show)
S1E4: mention of rape. S1E5: a character is interested in polygamy and wants to make his step daughters his wives. He can be seen in bed with one of her stepdaughters and heard asking her if she is comfortable in a position and "teaching" her how to be comfortable. S1E7: mention of rape. In one episode, some girls can be seen living in a recluded house owned by some of the characters. They are heavily implied to be underage and having sexual relationships with these older men, although their age is not confirmed.
The Undoing (TV Show)
There is a storyline throughout the series about a doctor who had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a patient's mother. S1E6: a rough sex scene between two characters leads into one murdering the other.
Unit 42 (TV Show)
The events take place in S1E8.
Unleashed (TV Show)
The film contains several flashbacks and discussion of an attempted rape throughout.
Until I Kill You (TV Show)
S1E1: a man starts to strangle a woman he is in bed with, during a night terror (about 33 minutes in). It looks at first like the start of a sexual assault, but is not. S1E2: this episode opens with the woman naked and tied to a bed against her will. About 8 minutes in is the prelude to the off-screen rape, with the man suggesting they have sex. The camera pans away and cuts the scene off, but we hear her make a whimpering sound just before it does. About 13 minutes in, the woman is making a statement to the police and describes multiple rapes having happened while she was being kept prisoner, but does not go into graphic detail. She describes having dissociated during them. One officer asks her how she can be “sure” she did not consent.
The Valhalla Murders (TV Show)
The main plot revolves around incidences of child sexual abuse. It is mentioned frequently throughout the series and discussed in detail in some episodes. Another subplot is the rape of a teenage girl by some of her classmates. A phone recording of the incident is shown and repeatedly played throughout some episodes, but we only see the girl waking up and then screaming off-screen. S1E4: at the end of the episode, a girl is pressured to describe in detail what happened to her, and she does: her description is very graphic.
Veronica Mars (TV Show)
All the first three seasons of Veronica Mars deal heavily with rape and sexual violence (the female protagonist is a survivor of rape) with victim-blaming. Incest is discussed but it never occurred, a student is impregnated by a teacher, and an adult man molested the children on his baseball team when they were young. During the course of season four, the titular character's friend reveals that she was raped, and this is brought up futher on in the episode. In another episode, the main character visits a convicted rapist in prison to source information from him.
A Very English Scandal (TV Show)
Vienna Blood (TV Show)
S1E1: a character discusses past and repressed traumas about her rape. S1E2: an attempted rape is shown on screen. S1E4: attempted rape on-screen + the rape of a character's mother is described.
Walker, Texas Ranger (TV Show)
Warrior (2019) (TV Show)
Throughout the show, there are many mentions of rape. In season one, a woman is aked by her father to have sex with her husband when she does not want to, so he can have a better business deal. She drugs herself to get through it and clearly does not enjoy it. In one episode a man forces his wife's hand onto his genitals, in another we see bruises on a young woman's thighs, implying rape. In season two, during a brothel raid, men can be seen raping women repeatedly. S2E3: a woman offers herself to a police officer to pay her husband's debts. She says that she has done it before and is clearly traumatized. A woman describes her husband sodomizing a 14 year old to his death and other artocities taking place in a brothel.
Weeds (TV Show)
In the first few episodes a man impersonates his teenage nephew online to trick his girlfriend (also a teen) into engaging in text-only cybersex. The scene depicts the text exchange, and implies that the adult masturbated to this exchange. He also regularly lies about himself to seduce women, including pretending to struggle with sobriety to get his sponsor (an attractive woman) to come to his house to seduce her. Season 4: a woman is raped on screen.
Wentworth Prison (TV Show)
S1E1: an abusive partner rapes a woman.
Who Where We Running From? (TV Show)
S1E2: a man attempts to rape a girl about 24 minutes into the episode. She manages to fight him off and gets away. The man approaches her again just a moment later and she runs away and hides. The girl struggles with flashbacks and nightmares afterwards.
Wild Wild Country (TV Show)
S1E2: archival footage shows men forcibly stripping and attempting to assault women.
Will Trent (TV Show)
The first two episodes (S1E1+2) revolve around a teenage girl who has been kidnapped: they feature a high amount of rape, child sex abuse, and sexual coercion. The culprit is her teacher and in the investigation, the detectives interact with other victims of the teacher and rape is mentioned on various occasions. It is also mentioned that the dad of the teenage girl might be having an affair with her friend and that he has a type "blondes who are 22 but look 16". S1E1: rumors are discussed that one of the characters was sexually abused by a foster parent. S1E2: a tenant trades sexual favors for her landlord keeping up her apartment. When she wants to stop, she is murdered. One man apologizes for having sex with his colleague when she was too drunk. It is revealed that a main character's mother started pimping her out at the age of 5. S1E6: a sex trafficking victim is found right after sex. This episode deals with a whole sex trafficking ring. S1E7: a teenager is raped by her foster father and gets her pregnant. There is a discussion about how the police will not do anything, and how they have to go to another state to get an abortion. S1E8: it is implied that an ex boyfriend might be abusive. A detective is sexually harassed by an elderly woman. S1E9: the main character, who was raped in foster care, confronts her abuser after he has gotten out of jail. He attempts to apologize. S1E10: the rape is mentioned again in a flashback. The woman who was raped in foster care warns a teenager about her rapist's past. The survivor confronts the rapist again: he says that she deserved it for how she dressed and acted. S1E11: the foster dad who raped a main character is sexually assaulting his fiances daughter. S1E12: the previous rape is mentioned again. A sex worker who had been beaten by her pimp is shown. A killer targets sex workers. An 18 year old murder victim is married to an adult man. A kid peeping on girls in the shower is mentioned. A female police officer mentions that a superior threatened to rape her with his nightstick. Two female police officers are sexually harrassed by their bosses. S1E13: a male cop threatens to sexuallt assault a female cop. A woman describes being violently assaulted when she was a prostitute. A cop raping prostitutes is discussed. S2E2: one character has 8 counts of sexual assault. S2E4: mention of two teenagers wanting to rape their friend. This is partially shown on-screen. S2E5: this episode mentions a serial rapist. An attempted rape is shown in-screen. S2E9 features people trying to solve the murder of a sex offender. S2E10 features someone who murders pedophiles. S3E3: rape is mentioned. S3E4-6: these episodes feature a long term character who has been convicted of rape and murder. Then there is a copycat killing. S3E16: past rape is discussed. S4E1: a past rape is mentioned. S4E2: a whiite cop threatens to make up pedophile charges against a Black man, and it is played for laughs. S4E3: this episode mentions a photographer sexuallt assaulting models and other references. S4E4: sexual assault, rape, and human trafficking. S4E5: one character has sex with someone who is involved in human trafficking. S4E6: someone lies while seducing another character.
The Wire (TV Show)
S1E3: a woman mentions how she was catcalled by her male colleagues before she told them she was a lesbian. S1E4: a man explains how he killed an unsuspecting woman who was naked (coming out of the shower) from the window of her home at night. Another man asks why he did not raped her first. Shortly after that, rape is mentioned in another context. Throughout the episode, the picture of the naked body of the woman is shown extensively. S1E7: a detainee repeatedly uses homophobic slurs to insult a lesbian officer. S1E8: during a party, a man has sex with a woman who is highly intoxicated (off-screen). She is shown dead and nude afterwards: the man is completely indifferent. Two officers joke about and discuss sexual harassment. S1E9: the rape from the previous episode is discussed. It is implied that three men raped the woman while she was overdosing, and that they dumped her body in a dumpster. Her dead naked body is shown at the morgue. S2E1: one man shows his penis to the crowd in a bar, despite the female bartender asking him not to. Near the end of the episode, one character makes a rape joke. Worthy of note: the final scene of the episode reveals a container full of dead women (presumably prostitutes). Their death is the central plot of season 2. S2E2: rape is mentioned. In the last scene of the episode, one character who has been tortured while naked, explains why the girls from S2E1 were murdered. Their age is not stated but they are referred to as 'girls'. They were prostitutes smuggled by boat, and when one sailor raped and killed one of them, the crew decided to kill them all, after having had sex with them. S2E4: the exhibitionist character from S2E1 takes a picture of his penis and set it as a screen wallpaper to one of his colleagues' computer. Rape is mentioned later on. S2E5: one male character showing enthusiasm to work with a friend/colleague touches him inappropriately (off-screen) as a joke. We hear the latter say: 'Don't grab my dick'. S2E7: a drunk male character is briefly shown acting inappropriately towards a woman in a bar. S2E9: one lead male character (a detective) goes to a brothel undercover and wiretapped to expose a human trafficking network. He ends up in a room with two prostitutes and seems uncomfortable when they start having sexual gestures towards him (undressing him and giving him a handjob), because his colleagues are taking too much time to intervene. When they eventually arrive, the two women are having sex with him: he does not seem disturbed at all. It is later stated that he broke regulations and has to justify his behavior. S3E1: rape is mentioned twice metaphorically. In the final scene of the episode, a woman (presumably a prostitute) is shown giving oral sex to three men in a dark alley at night. S3E2: throughout the episode, two men (40s) discuss which celebrities one of them would like to have sex with. He answers Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (who were just 18 when the series first aired), and the other precises that, in their fantasy, they would be his "slaves". S3E4: early on in the episode, rape and date rape are briefly mentioned. S3E5: a group of men harass a woman on the street and one of them eventually slaps her. S3E7: a woman (presumably a prostitute) is shown giving oral sex to a man in a dark alley. The male protagonist (a detective) uses professional resources to stalk a woman. S3E8: a woman flirts with a man and ends up having sex with him. It is then implied that she was paid or instructed to do so to trap him, and later get him killed. S3E9: rape is briefly mentioned early on in the episode. S3E10: a male judge, who was previously shown being attracted to a female recurring character, is increasingly insistent in flirting with her. She does not seems disturbed at all and even plays it to get what she wants. An homophobic man goes several times to a gay bar to bait one customer out and kidnap him. Season 4: throughout the season, one character (a boy) acts oddly towards male adults. It is increasingly suggested that he was sexually abused by his stepfather, who does not appear in the season until episode 9. The abuse is hinted at more clearly in episode 10. S4E2: rape is briefly mentioned by a politician as part of the city's criminal problems. S4E3: a man jokingly gropes another male character's bottom: he does not seem bothered and keeps joking with the other. S4E4: a main character, who frquently hit on women in bars, persists on flirting with a couple of women despite their clear disinterest. S4E5: two boys rape a girl off-screen in a school's bathroom. Another boy is paid to keep watch. We see the two boys accompanying the girl in the bathroom, and later exiting: the girl is always paralyzed, like if she was threatened beforehand. S4E6: the rape from the previous episode is discussed by different characters. The boy who kept watch insists on saying that the girl was consenting. We also briefly see here giving her deposition to a policman, distressed. This incident is briefly mentioned again in S4E7+8+11. In one of the final scenes, a woman starts kissing a man, who firstly accepts it but quickly rebuffs her: she insists and he has to pushes her away several times for her to accept his decision. S4E9: rape is briefly mentioned. S4E10: rape in juvenile custody is mentioned by a young criminal who is afraid to have to spend the night there (he does not). S5E5: during the first half of the episode, discussions are centered around the possibility that a serial killer rapes his male victims (which he is not). This is briefly mentioned again in further episodes. S5E7: the stepfather character from season 4 and his presumably assault of a child is mentioned and hinted at again. One rape and murder is mentioned.
Without a Trace (TV Show)
S1E5: a detective pretends to understand and collaborate with a pedophile and serial abuser in order to extract information on the location of his latest victim. Their conversation is pretty heavy and it can be triggering to watch. S1E11: a young girl's body is found and it is determined that she was sexually assaulted and killed by a man known to her. S1E17: during a war, a soldier from the rival army separates a woman from her people saying he will interrogate her. Later on, it is discovered that he actually raped her and that various similar incidents were covered up throughout his military carreer. S1E19: a high school teacher confesses to be in love with an underage student and, since he believes she loves him too, he plans to run away with her. S1E21: a young boy victim of a pedophile is put on the stand to testify against his agressor, who's in the room too, staring at the boy. The boy is really nervous and uncomfortable and ends up giving up on the testimony.
The Witness for the Prosecution (2016) (TV Show)
You (2018) (TV Show)
Season 1 focuses on a man who becomes obsessed with a woman and stalks her. He watches through her windows and masturbates while she has sex. He convinces her to date him through deception. Ultimately, when she realizes what he is doing, he kills her. A professor harasses his graduate students and grabs a main character's thigh under the table and conveys that he expects her to have sex with him. Season 2 features multiple plotlines dealing with sexual abuse. In one plotline, a young woman reveals that she, along with a number of other girls, was a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of a celebrity. The man in question would invite the young girls (often under the legal age) into his home, drug them and photograph them in suggestive poses with their clothes partially removed while they were unconscious. According to him, he never goes further than that, claiming nobody was getting hurt and the girls did not even remember it. The aforementioned woman's 15 years old sister almost falls victim to the same man, but this is prevented by the main character. The offender claims that his behovior stems from his own history of being sexually abused as a child. Another plotline features a sexual relationship between a young adult woman working as an Au-pair and the underaged boy in her care. Season 3 features a plotline where an adult woman has an affair with the 19-year old son of her neighbor, who is in love with her. She uses his feeligns for her to manipulate him into doing her bidding on multiple occasions. Throughout season 4, a female character is seen spanking waiters without their consent. S1E4: a character's son is revealed to have sexually assaulted a girl in college, causing his family to move away from the area, without him facing any consequences. He strikes again at his new college, and his mother secretly pays off the victim to stop her from pressing charges and make the situation go away. S1E8: a woman's ex-husband sends explicit photos of her to various people to ruin an important career opportunity for her. S4E7: a character is sexually tortured (nothing explicit is shown). S5E2: a woman is accosted by a masked man in the office after hours, and he is about to force himself on her as she screams. However, the masked man is ultimately revealed to be the woman's husband, acting out a consensual roleplay scenario.
Your Honor (TV Show)
Season 1 features a high school student having sex with his teacher. S1E2: there is a mention of a criminal going free on a previous charge of underwear theft, then going on to assault women/children and stuffing underwear in their mouths (about 31 minutes into the episode).
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