Any advice on legal issues to be aware of when writing a “rape fantasy”?

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Especially if it involves real people (but fictional events)? Is a disclaimer sufficient to defend against any kind of legal trouble?

I’m intending to write a story about a male “celebrity” getting ”abducted” and “raped” by his female admirers, i.e. they take him to a secret location, restrain him with chains, and perform sexual acts on him, and force him to perform sexual acts on them.

No-one gets hurt, i.e., no-one suffers any kind of lasting physical or mental harm of any kind. The male celebrity does get infuriated by the events, not because he feels physically violated, but rather because he was due to go on a date with a particularly wealthy woman, a beautiful young heiress to a business empire, and he has now missed that date, which means that what he saw as a valuable business opportunity has effectively been scuppered. In a fit of rage, he therefore performs some vigorous penile-vaginal thrusting on one of the women there, wanting to cause her pain, but she actually thoroughly enjoys it, and ends up climaxing.

There isn’t much “violence” in this story, and the fact that it’s a man that’s on the receiving end of action from women, to my mind at least, makes this much less offensive than if it was about a woman getting raped by men.

Now I just would be grateful for your advice – is a disclaimer sufficient to defend against any kind of legal trouble?
 
In the UK? Who knows? Your laws on this differ greatly from ours. Generally in the US, it's pretty tough to prove slander or libel against a public figure. Check the existing celebrity stories on Lit for an idea of what flies.
 
In the US, I'm not sure a disclaimer's even needed given the Supreme Court's ruling in Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988). UK law is notoriously more plaintiff-friendly than US law in defamation matters, though, so I'd say you should do a quick google search for "defamation", "parody", and "celebrity" or "public figure", terms like that, and see what pops up.
 
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