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The Bold and the Beautiful could be the poster soap for inappropriate sexual relations, and that's putting it mildly. From nearly every Forrester male having Brooke at one point or another to nearly every Spencer man sharing Steffy, there's always something to cringe about when watching the fictional L.A. fashion scene. And then, there's Luna.
The Bold and the Beautiful's Luna is a sexual predator
Luna (Lisa Yamada) did not take advantage of Will (Crew Morrow). She also did not seduce Will. She raped him. Full stop. However, every day, the dialogue writers come up with another euphemism for a deplorable act. Even Will claims Luna seduced him because B&B can't have the victim actually acknowledge he is a victim.
If The Bold and the Beautiful and Will had to admit to what actually played out, how can we have a convenient pregnancy story? That's what the soap seems to want to focus on, and not the act that took place to achieve this possible pregnancy. (And we all know Luna is going to claim to be pregnant whether she is or not. She likely already faked the test in Remy's bathroom.)
Rape and seduction are NOT the same
We thought we solved this soap opera dilemma back in the 1990s when General Hospital finally acknowledged that Luke (Anthony Geary) raped Laura (Genie Francis). That story was played as a sexual assault when it happened, but then it was quickly whitewashed to a "seduction" when fans decided they loved Luke and Laura as a couple.
In 1998, GH allowed Luke and Laura's son to learn what his father did to his mother, thus ending the "rape-seduction" claims once and for all. Now, 27 years later, we have B&B calling a clear rape a seduction as if society and the realities of sexual assault have not moved an inch in more than 40 years.
Luna in no way seduced Will. Instead, she made sure he was too intoxicated to think, much less consent to sex. Then, she climbed into bed and had sex with a man who thought she was someone else — a man who had no idea what was actually happening to him.
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Luna didn't take advantage of Will. She forced him into sex, which by definition is rape. And playing out the aftermath of sexual assault is much more compelling storytelling than the nonsense we see playing out in Li's odd little one-room apartment. If B&B is going to tell a rape story, then maybe it should own it.
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