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eight legged beast ([personal profile] eightleggedbeast) wrote in [community profile] access_fandom 2010-07-31 12:17 am (UTC)

warning: mention of dubcon

DC Comics/Dick Grayson: Batman (Dick Grayson) suffers from manic hypersexuality. What are the consequences of this?

We have the obvious consequences from rogues (possible forensic problems + almost all of them are doctors or psychiatrists or emotionally/sexually manipulative as an M.O.). We also have a very large extended family of often damaged and unstable friends, more-than-friends, family and lovers with many having very strong feelings about Dick, whatever they are.

I got this idea from Dick's generally odd sexual behaviour in the canon. Ignoring any slashy interpretations and only in his costumed life there was Barbara, and there was Kory; apparently according to recent-ish canon he slept with Barbara before his wedding to Kory. He's had sexual relations with supervillains with seemingly no prompting other than their interest, including Catwoman of all people
(skip)and a bizarre dubcon episode with Tarantula.

Let's ignore writers' shipping wars, comic characters' sluttiness in general, the hugely numerous and long affairs that result from having over seventy years of canon behind you being compressed to fit into a vague ten-to-fifteen year timeline and the emotional 180 a character has between different series with different stories planned. Let's just think about the in-world situation. Is he looking for this? Is he taking hints out of thin air for sex that is clearly no good for anyone? Who could have worked it out by now if he is?

I hope this doesn't come off as missing the point of a disability meme, please delete if it does! LOL NYMPHO is not what I mean here. Yes I know where to find Teland, which is... This prompt, almost.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersexuality (with all the usual wiki pitfalls)
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=415 (proposed revision to diagnosis)

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