Sexual Ethics and Violence Prevention

Carmody, Moira

doi:10.1177/0964663903012002003

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“…Subsequently, it has been argued that interventions should construct and promote positive conceptualisations of masculinity (Carmody, 2003). At the same time, such 'positive' campaigns do not necessarily avoid perpetuating stereotypes pertaining to male and female sexuality (Murphy, 2009) and even those which aim to engender ethical sexual relationships may still be subject to opprobrium.…”

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Too Drunk to Consent? Exploring the Contestations and Disruptions in Male-Focused Sexual Violence Prevention Interventions

Carline

Gunby

Taylor

2017

Social & Legal Studies

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Primary prevention interventions, often in the form of media campaigns, are frequently utilised in order to tackle sexual violence. However, many in the UK have been criticised for perpetuating victim-blaming, due to their focus on the behaviour of women. One notable exception is a Liverpool City Council Campaign, which targeted young men (aged 18-24) in a bid to reduce rates of alcohol-related rape. Drawing upon an assessment involving 41 male university students, this article generates original insights into the development and utilisation of male focused rape prevention interventions. As this analysis shows, the young men's responses to the campaign involved negotiating discourses of sex, consent, rape, sexuality and gender -especially masculinity. While participants frequently drew upon stereotypes and misconceptions, moments of contestation and disruption emerged. We argue that interventions should concentrate upon masculinity and moments of disruption and contestation (possibly through the use of peer group discussions), in order to encourage critical reflections on gender and sexual violence, and to potentially engender more ethical practices.

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Too Drunk to Consent? Exploring the Contestations and Disruptions in Male-Focused Sexual Violence Prevention Interventions

Carline

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Taylor

2017

Social & Legal Studies

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“…Daniel's narrative might offer some possibilities to contest the construction of adults as powerful/ exploitative and children as innocent/powerless, that is, by reversing and/or complicating this binary. Additionally, I will also discuss an example of ethical negotiations in Daniel's sexual relationship (Carmody 2003(Carmody , 2015.…”

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“…Here, I attempt to flesh out Carmody's (2003Carmody's ( , 2015 proposal of building ethical relationships, and Egan and Hawkes's (2009) suggestion of recognizing children as agentic sexual subjects. To date, an analysis of these proposals in the narrative of a sexual experience is barely available in the existing literature.…”

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“…Daniel dealt with his boredom ("feel bored with her"), selfcentredness ("coming only when I want sex"), and avoidance of "commitment and responsibility" by ditching the seminar student instead of ethically negotiating it with her. As Carmody (2003) has noted, building ethical sexual relationships cannot just about a one-off consent, but continuous negotiations-which make room for new dynamics and changes throughout the relationship. Daniel himself realized his unethical actions and attempted to apologize, but unfortunately he could not find her.…”

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Contesting the Dominant Discourse of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Subjects, Agency, and Ethics

Mulya

2018

Sexuality & Culture

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Responding to previous scholars' call to explore the complexities of child sexual abuse (CSA), this article presents narratives of CSA and scrutinizes a binary construction underpinning this discourse of CSA, namely, the positioning of children as powerless and adults as powerful. The narratives belong to three Indonesian young people who have had sexual interactions with adults when they were children. The findings demonstrate how this binary positioning has been both drawn upon and resisted in the ways participants understand their sexual experiences. This article contributes to the existing literature by providing analyses of some vignettes of everyday experiences of how children might be constituted as sexual subjects, including their capability to exercise agency, perform resistance, and negotiate ethics. The implications of the findings are discussed in relation to how the recognition of children as sexual subjects and their sexual agency might be beneficial for parents, educators, and counselors.

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“…Much recent work in Australia has been based on Moira Carmody's (2003Carmody's ( , 2005 significant contribution to anti-violence theorisation through the development of sexual ethics that are built on relationality and a care of both the self and the other, by relating the capacity to recognise the common vulnerability of both self and other as a key mechanism that makes ethical sexual relations possible. While Carmody makes a powerful case for the development of ethical behaviours related to sexuality among men as the means by which sexual violence can be overcome, where this can be expanded upon is in increasing the understanding of possible mechanisms for the recognition by men of the value of ethical behaviours.…”

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Sexual Ethics, Masculinity and Mutual Vulnerability

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2014

Australian Feminist Studies

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Over the past two decades, significant work has been undertaken in masculinities scholarship to aid the development of efforts to prevent incidences of sexual violence against women. This has included Carmody's powerful contribution of grounding primary prevention strategies in Foucault's ethics of the care of the self and others. This paper expands on this approach by theorising how Judith Butler's ethics of non-violence built on the recognition of vulnerability can provide a conceptual mechanism or justification by which men will embrace sexual ethics of care. Using the contextual example of group sexual assault by team sportsplayers as well as recent efforts to address masculine violence in Australia, the paper argues that Butler's recent work contributes to ways in which that ethics can be better embraced by men as part of a broader project of cultural transformation of (hyper-)masculinity into a less-harmful event. The paper addresses ways in which to understand the failure of team sportsplayers capacity to recognise the vulnerability of women in group sexual assault cases by showing how the operation of normative frames prevent conceiving the hypermasculine self as anything but inviolable. In that context, some recent debates in Australian masculinities and anti-violence scholarship on whether or not changes to gender relations are best communicated as a benefit or loss of power to men are addressed. The aim of this paper is to make a small contribution to advancing theories and concepts of sexual ethics in the context of masculine sexual violence by investigating ways in which Butler's approach can operate as both a mechanism for inducing care of selves and others and an outcome of the cultural transformation of gender relations.Over the past two decades, significant theoretical, conceptual, strategic and pragmatic work has been undertaken to aid the development of efforts to prevent incidences of sexual violence against women. In many cases, these have included efforts to intervene in homosocial masculine institutions in which group-based sexual assault and violence occurs, including sites that are often the subject of public scandal such as elite and high-profile sporting teams and military organisations (Toffoletti 2007;Flood 2007). Recent preventative measures have been built on the need to engage men and boys in understanding the unethical nature of gender-based violence and sexual assault; a task which has been noted as considerably difficult to achieve (Flood 2011, 262), including through compulsory programmes and intervention schemes in masculine-based highprofile institutions. Such schemes respond to the need for a shift in focus beyond the Australian Feminist Studies, 2014 Vol. 29, No. 82,[435][436][437][438][439][440][441][442][443][444][445][446][447][448][449][450][451] http://dx.

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Sexual Ethics and Violence Prevention

Cited by 56 publications

References 11 publications

Too Drunk to Consent? Exploring the Contestations and Disruptions in Male-Focused Sexual Violence Prevention Interventions

Too Drunk to Consent? Exploring the Contestations and Disruptions in Male-Focused Sexual Violence Prevention Interventions

Contesting the Dominant Discourse of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Subjects, Agency, and Ethics

Sexual Ethics, Masculinity and Mutual Vulnerability

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