Classic Hollywood romances eroticized the rape of white women by Arab men

Evidence

In many Hollywood films of this type, the female is raped. Such is the case in Rudolph Valentino’s film The Sheik (1921), where an Arab kidnaps a white woman, rapes her, she falls in love with him, and they live happily ever after. In the sequel to this film, Son of the Sheik (1926), where Valentino plays the roles of both father and son, a similar scenario plays out. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 1225

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s thesis: this is the manufactured Muslim-monster in its erotic form, where violation and desire fuse into one image of the Arab male.
• SEED: The Sheik’s rape-then-love formula is a capsule study in how projection works — the West fears and desires the same figure, which is exactly the reader’s ‘container for what the West cannot face in itself’ thesis.