BADSEX - Investigating Bad Sex In Its Socio-legal Contexts

BADSEX - 在社会法律背景下调查不良性行为

• 批准号: EP/Y032608/1
• 负责人: Verena Klein
• 金额: $ 123.91万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY032608%2F1
• 关键词: BADSEX; Investigating; Bad; Sex; Its

What counts as sexual assault is one of today's most burning social issues. Consent is considered the crucial marker for acceptable sex.Thus, sex is primarily conceptualized as either consensual and wanted or non-consensual and unwanted (i.e., rape). But can sexualexperiences be harmful despite being consensual? Pointing to a range of troubling sexual experiences situated outside the remit ofcriminal law, the dimension of "bad sex" has recently gained public attention. While much is known about sexual assault, less isknown about those grey zones of sexual experiences that disproportionally affect women. Using an inter-disciplinary foundation (i.e.,sexuality research, psychology, law), the proposed project will fill this gap by investigating "bad sex" in its socio-legal contexts. Thecrucial step towards this goal is to explore the phenomenology of "bad sex". In a next step, I aim to frame those experiences in termsof the cultural and legal contexts in which they are situated. My focus of analysis will be thereby on the law and social media (i.e.,Twitter). First, the project will examine whether or not the traditional or liberal sexual assault legislation of a country is related topeople's "bad sex" experiences. I will then analyze "bad sex" discussions on Twitter to explore if women's "bad sex" experience isdebated as a social and political issue. Finally, in an experimental design, I will examine if participants judge whether a sexual scenariodescribes "bad sex" or sexual assault and which cues they are using to make this decision. All proposed studies will be conductedcross-culturally to provide maximum diversity and support my investigation into how cultural and socio-legal factors shape "bad sex"experiences, thus, offering a particularly rigorous test of the studied phenomena. Together, the project proposes essentially newideas and methods for understanding the greyer zones of sexuality.

所谓的性侵犯是当今最紧迫的社会问题之一。同意被认为是可接受的性行为的关键标志。因此，性行为主要被概念化为双方自愿和想要的或非自愿的和不想要的(即强奸)。但是，性体验即使是双方自愿的，也会有害吗？针对一系列不在刑法管辖范围内的令人不安的性行为，“不良性行为”一词最近引起了公众的关注。虽然人们对性侵犯的了解很多，但对那些不成比例地影响女性的性经历的灰色地带却知之甚少。利用跨学科的基础(比如性研究、心理学、法学)，拟议的项目将通过在其社会法律背景下调查“不良性行为”来填补这一空白。迈向这一目标的关键一步是探索“不良性行为”的现象学。下一步，我的目标是根据这些经历所处的文化和法律背景来框定这些经历。因此，我的分析重点将放在法律和社交媒体(即Twitter)上。首先，该项目将检查一个国家的传统或自由的性侵犯立法是否与人们的“糟糕的性行为”经历有关。然后，我将分析推特上关于“糟糕的性行为”的讨论，以探索女性的“糟糕的性行为”经历是否会被作为一个社会和政治问题进行辩论。最后，在一个实验设计中，我将检查参与者是否判断一个性爱场景是否描述了“糟糕的性行为”或性侵犯，以及他们使用了哪些线索来做出决定。所有拟议的研究都将以跨文化的方式进行，以提供最大的多样性，并支持我对文化和社会法律因素如何塑造“糟糕的性行为”经历的调查，从而对所研究的现象进行特别严格的测试。总而言之，该项目提出了基本的新观点和方法，以理解性行为的灰色地带。