I think you can make a good story that involves abuse. I think you can make a realistic story that involves abuse, that hits buttons and really makes you feel for the characters. I think you need to be a very good writer to do it. I trust Alan Moore, or Mike Carey, or Gail Simone. Maybe even Rick Veich or Bill Willingham. That's about it, though.

I'd also love to see one of those writers do a story in which a male character gets put through a horrible ordeal and has emotional consequences other than rage/thirst for revenge. (Actually, Willingham's been doing that quite well in Fables.)

The other option, of course, is to make rape (as it once was) verboten in superhero comics. Kinda like the way Archie lives in a world where sex simply does not exist.