Violence and the Law
The Case of Sado-Masochism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12283156 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie J Moran (0000-0002-2424-4056, Lancaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-251 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/096466399500400204 |
| OpenAlex | W2095709958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 16 |
In this chapter, the author utilizes the analysis of the juridification of the male body and its desires to develop a critique of the law. Masochism provides a demonstration of the absurdity of law. The violence with which the English law has responded to sado-masochism (S/M) suggests that there is recognition that S/M embodies a very distinctive challenge to the law. A further manifestation of the theme of S/M as unruly, escalating violence appears in various references to the law. In producing the S/M body and its desires by way of the particular economy of law and violence, the judges paint a very specific picture about the nature of legal practice. S/M as victim is put to work as a substitute for the men and women of the community who are the actual possible objects of this homosocial and heterosocial violence
Absurdity · Criminology · Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Theme (computing · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Sexual peril and dangerous others
Unknowable Bodies, Unthinkable Sexualities
Esthetics and Methods in the Study of Sexual Rights
A Few Hard Cases? Sport, Sadomasochism and Public Policy in the English Courts
Disability, abnormality and criminal law
A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior
In This Interregnum’
Persecution or Play? Law and the Ethical Significance of Sadomasochism
Provocation and `Homosexual' Advance
Coming out of Geography
Law Made Flesh
Histoire de la sexualité, Tome I
Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Between Men
Law as literature
Sexual Expression, Body Alteration, and the Defence of Consent
Women, Violence and Social Change
Against Our Will. Men, Women and Rape
Consent in Sexual Offences 1
Sado‐masochism, Consent, and the Reform of the Criminal Law
Justice and its Vicissitudes
Violence and the Word
Pornography, Men Possessing Women
The Mineshaft
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1980 - 2025 (46) |
| Highly cited | No |