Do these violent delights have violent ends? Deconstructing rough sex portrayals in media, feminist theory and policy

在过去的十年里，粗暴的性行为已经成为公共话语的中心，特别是在媒体上。也许部分是对《五十度灰》及其电影改编的流行的回应，粗暴的性行为--性行为中的身体攻击，包括拔头发、咬、打屁股、窒息和被捆绑等行为--已经成为文化和生活方式在线出版物的一个突出焦点。事实上，像《Cosmopolitan》和《Men's Health》这样的在线杂志经常报道粗暴的性行为和相关行为，将其视为个人性生活和性欲的常见和正常部分。然而，一种相反的说法，即粗暴的性行为是犯罪和父权制错误行为的产物，正在新闻和时事中反击，有时甚至在同一出版物中。空间经常被提供给像我们不能同意这一点（WCCTT），试图禁止他们所看到的“粗暴的性防御”运动的要求。据称，当男性被告试图减轻或驳回谋杀或严重身体伤害指控时，会使用这种辩护，声称他们的受害者在“性游戏出错”中意外死亡，或者他们同意性获得的伤害。因此，报纸和杂志媒体上存在两种关于粗暴性行为的相互竞争的叙述：一方面，它被描述为对妇女的有害和不道德的行为，是父权制的虐待，而另一方面，对娱乐和文化的积极回应将粗暴的性行为描绘成一种应该被污名化的女性性解放实践。这表明，这种相互竞争的叙述密切遵循的“性别战争”的学术女权主义的20世纪70年代起，无论是在其描绘的影响和公众，道德和法律的合法性的这种行为。研究关注的是法律的和政治的理论和原则，支持我们的规则和法律的性别机构，国家有权利或义务保护自己或其公民免受伤害，而不是支持个人自己的选择。在线报纸和杂志将使用YouGov对英国流行出版物和网站的公开排名进行识别。结果将记录在Microsoft Excel中，并根据在线列出的类别（即“新闻”，“娱乐”，“生活方式”等）进行过滤。然后将采用归纳方法对这些材料进行专题分析。

Within the last decade, rough sex has catapulted to the centre of public discourse, especially in the media. Perhaps in part a response to the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey and its cinematic adaptations, rough sex - physical aggression during sex including behaviours such as hair-pulling, biting, spanking, choking and being tied up - has become a prominent focus of cultural and lifestyle online publications. Indeed, online magazines like Cosmopolitan and Men's Health regularly cover rough sex and related behaviours, treating it as a common and normal part of individuals' sex lives and sexual desires. Yet a counter-narrative that rough sex is a product of criminal and patriarchal wrongdoing is fighting back within news and current affairs, sometimes even within the same publications. Space is frequently afforded to the demands of campaigns like We Can't Consent to This (WCCTT) which seeks to ban what they see as 'the rough sex defence'. This defence is purportedly used when male defendants seek to reduce or dismiss a murder or grievous bodily harm charge by claiming that their victims died accidentally in "a sex game gone wrong" or that they consented to sexually-acquired injuries.Two competing narratives about rough sex, then, exist in the newspaper and magazine media: on one hand it is portrayed as harmful and immoral acts done to women as a patriarchal abuse, while on the other the often-positive response to entertainment and culture portrays rough sex as a sexually liberating practice for women that ought to be destigmatised. It is suggested that such competing narratives follows closely the 'sex wars' of scholarly feminism of the 1970s onwards both in its portrayal of the effects and the public, moral and legal legitimacy of such acts.The research is concerned with the legal and political theories and principles underpinning our rules and laws on gendered agency, and where the state has a right or duty to protect itself or its citizens from harm rather than support individuals' own choices. Online newspapers and magazines will be identified using YouGov's public rankings of popular UK publications and websites. The results will be recorded in Microsoft Excel and filtered based on the category listed online (i.e. 'news', 'entertainment', 'lifestyle' etc.). These materials will then be coded using an inductive approach to thematic analysis.