I can just imagine that about you, homored Oz.

And like Arria I'm sometimes a sucker for non-con fantasies (though it's by no means the only field of turn-on, of course). I remember a writer many decades ago citing newspaper reports of the Finnish Civil War in 1918 - a struggle when propaganda ran high on both sides. The reports had been claiming farmsteads were looted (true. occasionally), some of the men shot dead and the women left kneeling and bound with their tongues literally nailed into the dining table, presumably some after being raped. That was no doubt a made up horror story, but what the woman writer recognized, looking back fifteen years, was the powerful, shameful masochist turn-on she'd got from reading it in the papers (she was 18 at the time).

I remember feeling tingled by Edward Gibbon's chapter about the fall of Constatinople in 1453, at the end of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire with ladies dragged off into slavery...The Middle Ages are indeed a breeding-ground for this kind of fantasy.