Sexualized object rape or actual physical rape, either way, if Hotch didn't feel a little safer around women for a while, it would be unusual.
It wold have been useless for him to add that to the attack.
Mmm. It depends on the Reaper's goal. If it's just to terrorize, yes, absolutely.
However, physical rape would have the bonus of being just enough like consensual sex that the mechanics of sex itself would become a post-traumatic trigger. Rape victims often feel the rapists hands on them during foreplay or like the rapist is in the room when trying to engage in meaningful consensual sex (as opposed to engaging in meaningless promiscuous sex in an attempt to prove to themselves that sex -- and the rape -- does not matter, also a normal reaction). If the Reaper's goal was to isolate Hotch from all other relationships, then adding physical rape would serve to further that end because it would be entirely possible Hotch wouldn't even be able to make out without freaking.
Such as it is, IMO, Foyet has managed to make the smell of blood a trigger, which is making Hotch's job very difficult.
The third thing is that if the Reaper did something that looked like he was getting ready for physical rape and Hotch panicked and reacted? The Reaper would have chased that reaction even if physical rape hadn't been part of his original plan at all or if he'd even considered it and discarded it as superfluous.
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Sexualized object rape or actual physical rape, either way, if Hotch didn't feel a little safer around women for a while, it would be unusual.
It wold have been useless for him to add that to the attack.
Mmm. It depends on the Reaper's goal. If it's just to terrorize, yes, absolutely.
However, physical rape would have the bonus of being just enough like consensual sex that the mechanics of sex itself would become a post-traumatic trigger. Rape victims often feel the rapists hands on them during foreplay or like the rapist is in the room when trying to engage in meaningful consensual sex (as opposed to engaging in meaningless promiscuous sex in an attempt to prove to themselves that sex -- and the rape -- does not matter, also a normal reaction). If the Reaper's goal was to isolate Hotch from all other relationships, then adding physical rape would serve to further that end because it would be entirely possible Hotch wouldn't even be able to make out without freaking.
Such as it is, IMO, Foyet has managed to make the smell of blood a trigger, which is making Hotch's job very difficult.
The third thing is that if the Reaper did something that looked like he was getting ready for physical rape and Hotch panicked and reacted? The Reaper would have chased that reaction even if physical rape hadn't been part of his original plan at all or if he'd even considered it and discarded it as superfluous.
And Emily has her awesomepants on, I agree.
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