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

在过去的十年里，粗暴的性行为一跃成为公共话语的中心，尤其是在媒体中。也许在一定程度上是对《五十度灰》的流行及其电影改编的回应，粗暴的性行为--性行为中的身体攻击，包括拔头发、咬人、打屁股、窒息和被捆绑--已经成为文化和生活方式在线出版物的突出焦点。事实上，像《大都会》和《男性健康》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的一部分。然而，一种相反的说法--粗暴的性行为是犯罪和父权制错误行为的产物--在新闻和时事领域进行了反击，有时甚至在相同的出版物中也是如此。空间经常被提供给像我们不能同意这样的运动(WCCTT)的要求，该运动试图禁止他们认为的“粗鲁的性防御”。据称，当男性被告试图减少或驳回谋杀或严重身体伤害的指控时，他们声称受害者死于“一场出了问题的性游戏”，或者他们同意了性后天的伤害。因此，报纸和杂志媒体上存在两种相互矛盾的关于粗暴性行为的叙述：一方面，它被描述为对女性的有害和不道德的行为，是父权虐待；另一方面，对娱乐和文化的积极回应将粗暴的性行为描绘为女性的一种性解放行为，应该被剥夺尊严。有人认为，这种相互矛盾的叙述与20世纪70年代以来的学术女权主义的‘性别战争’密切相关，无论是对这种行为的影响，还是对这种行为的公共、道德和法律合法性的描绘都是如此。这项研究涉及支撑我们关于性别中介机构的规则和法律的法律和政治理论和原则，以及国家有权利或义务保护自己或公民免受伤害，而不是支持个人的选择。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。结果将被记录在Microsoft Excel中，并根据在线列出的类别进行过滤(即“新闻”、“娱乐”、“生活方式”等)。然后，这些材料将使用主题分析的归纳方法进行编码。

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.