Gratuitous Rape in Fantasy novels

[JoanDrake]

I've read that the Huns would actually cut a guy in the appropriate spot and then rape the cut. Though that was a fiction book, it was done by a guy that's usually accurate.

 

[Nerds_feather]

Apart from that whole shame/humiliation thing you mean? (in several cultures, it was only a male receiving male, ahem, attention that was shamed. Romans for example. So, for one man to rape another only shamed the rapee)

That's the same as in the (extended) Viking-era. The only instances of rape mentioned in the sagas are male-on-male rapes. AND, interestingly enough, in stories that take place in 13th century Iceland...a good 250 years after the adoption of Christianity.