Tauiwi Caucus Presents - Pornography, rough sex, and choking: Insights and challenges
Channel: TOAH NNEST
Date: 2021-09-28

Dr Samantha Keene presents - Pornography, rough sex, and choking: Insights and challenges

Rough sex appears to be experiencing a cultural ‘moment’. Following the release of best-selling novel 50 Shades of Grey, rough sex has become an increasing feature in popular culture. Depictions of rough sexual behaviours – such as choking, hair pulling and slapping – commonly occur in contemporary movies, men’s and women’s lifestyle magazines, and mainstream heterosexual pornography. Concerningly, rough sex has also been an aspect of numerous high-profile murder and sexual violence cases around the world. In many of these cases, the accused has claimed that the woman’s death was the result of consensual choking/strangulation. This webinar explores the limited research on choking during sex to date and critically interrogates the role that mainstream pornography may play in the normalisation of this particular behaviour.
 

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Dr Samantha Keene is a Lecturer/Pūkenga in Criminology at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Samantha’s research interests include issues of gendered harm, violence against women and girls, and the criminal justice system’s responses to women as victims and survivors. She is currently publishing on issues relating to the influence of contemporary pornography on gender-based violence, consensual/non-consensual rough sex, and the rough sex defence.

Just Fantasy? Online Pornography's Contribution to Experiences of Harm - https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-83982-848-520211021/full/html