Asexual people are at a higher risk for “corrective” rape. Sometimes this is because they are commonly interpreted as being a challenge for an aggressive, confident person to “turn.” Other times this happens because a rapist feels that sex is very important for everyone and they really believe forcing someone into sex will wake them up. Disturbingly, these hypothetical rapists aren’t necessarily strangers or acquaintances. Many times they are the asexual person’s partner or spouse.
