Exploring gender subversion and recuperation in anal fisting among gay men

Anal fisting among gay men, that is, the sexual(ised) and erotic (single or partnered) practice of inserting the hand(s) and/or forearm(s) into the anus and rectum, has historically been framed in medical and medico-forensic case studies as a violent and dangerous sexual practice associated with the contraction of disease, heightened risk of sexual injury, and the possibility of death. In contrast to this, pro-Queer scholars of gender and sexuality have conceptually reframed the act of anal fisting among gay men as a subversive sexual practice which in its discursive and material performances radically transgresses the heteronormative tropes which typically underwrite human sex/uality, especially in ways that render the preferred representations of (gay) sex as ‘vanilla’. By drawing from unstructured individual interviews with a sample of eight (self-identifying) South African gay men who regularly incorporate anal fisting into their sexual relations, this study explores the gendered contradictions which rhetorically circumscribe how these men discursively construct and experience the corpo-erotic practice of anal fisting. In doing so, the findings highlight that while anal fisting among gay men may in fact engender shades of a sexually subversive practice by the way it radically (re)makes the material and erotic possibilities and connections of gay men’s bodies in exceptionally non-normative and perhaps Queer ways; it is, at the same time, also invested with, and reiterative of, discursive repertoires which actively recuperate heteronormative as well as heteromasculinist tropes and gendered power relations that, in some instances, appear femiphobic.

Constructing Sexual Harm: Prosecutorial Narratives of Children, Abuse, and the Disruption of Heterosexuality

Sociologists have identified many factors that mitigate the progressive effects of the legal mobilization to end sexual violence. Within this body of research, however, there is little interrogation about the social construction of sexual harm. I use the case of child sexual abuse to investigate how prosecutors make sense of sexual harm. Data are qualitative interviews with 43 prosecutors. Findings reveal that prosecutors use a framework of sexual identity to construct sexual injury on the child’s body. The perceived harm centers on the anticipated loss of the child’s heterosexual potential. Girl victims are thought to grow into sexual promiscuity, and boy victims are thought to grow into sex offenders. Prosecutorial constructions of child sexual abuse cases are future-oriented, which increases their urgency, and these constructions also imagine the child as a person in formation, rather than a fully actualized person with intrinsic rights. In revealing how the state of sexual victimization is not only deeply gendered but also heteronormative, this research has theoretical implications for childhood studies, queer studies, and anti-violence advocacy.

Exile of Women in Anita Raw Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

Anita Rau Badami is an Indo-Canadian writer who has written four exceptional novels. Her widely praised books are known for the honest portrayal of Indian families and solid disapproved of women. Woman exploitation is one of the disasters defying ladies everywhere throughout the world. This malice is additionally intensified in the event that they are put in precarious political social orders or occasions. Women being greatly defenceless are obvious objectives of any type of abuse, embarrassment, hardship and segregation. Segment writing investigates the sexual injury, sufferings and excruciating encounter of ladies amid and after the Partition. This from multiple points of view substantiates the way that imbalance of genders is neither a natural reality nor a perfect order yet a social develop. The paper deals with the exploitation of women and their horrible encounters through the viewpoint of a female in Anita Rau Badami’s in her novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? This novel focuses on the subject of the Partition of India and Pakistan.

The reality of domestic violence in the US

According to the United States department of justice, domestic violence is defined as “a pattern of abusive behaviours in any relationship that are used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner”. It involves a pattern of coercive behaviour in intimate relationships whereby the behaviour is controlled through humiliation, intimidation, fear, and often intentional physical, emotional or sexual injury. Domestic violence crosses all ethnic, socioeconomic and age groups, and is also prevalent in same sex relationships.Over six million children are severely assaulted by family members every year in the United States; a man beats a woman every twelve seconds; women who leave their batterer are at 75% greater risk of being killed by their batterer than those who stay; and one third of police time is spending on answering domestic violence calls.In domestic violence situations the intervention is frequently in crisis, where the victims “fight” for survival, and it is necessary to give proper answers according to the victim's needs. The professionals that work directly with domestic violence assume that there is a strong bond connecting the domestic violence with mental health. In the United States 90% of domestic violence survivors report extreme emotional distress; 47.5% report having been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder; 14.7% report anxiety; 20% depression. Mental illnesses are frequently observed in domestic violence survivors.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

NURSING IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: ISSUING A PROTOCOL IN MANAGEMENT AND CARE

RESUMENLa violencia de género se puede conceptuar como una relación de abuso e intimidación a toda conducta que, por acción u omisión, ocasiona daño físico, social, psicológico o sexual en la mujer. Es el resultado de una educación donde el abuso y la intimidación, en esa desigualdad de género, ha sido una asignatura vivida y aprendida. Su manifestación, siempre dependiendo de esos factores socioculturales y educacionales, según el lugar, país, localidad o etnia en la que se produce, tendrá diferentes manifestaciones y expresiones externas. El objetivo de nuestro trabajo se centra en: Conocer, tras la revisión bibliográfica efectuada, qué es la violencia de género y la descripción de las fases y desarrollo del proceso, las políticas sanitarias en vigor, la legislación vigente y acciones sanitarias sobre el tema en España, y en segundo lugar, proponer un protocolo de actuación que oriente al colectivo enfermero, como uno de los colectivos implicados, en el desarrollo de sus actuaciones. Revisión bibliográfica actualizada sobre las políticas de salud en vigor en España, y situación actual sanitaria en el abordaje de la violencia de género. Tras el análisis bibliográfico se presenta una propuesta de protocolización de actuaciones, en el tema que nos ocupa, fundamentada en la Metodología de Gestión de Calidad a partir de la identificación de un problema. Se propone, vista la bibliografía sobre protocolos de acción para la violencia de género, la aplicación de un protocolo de actuación a partir de la identificación del problema. Descriptores: Protocolo; Planificación de cuidados en salud; Gestión de calidad. ABSTRACTDomestic violence may be regarded as a relation of abuse and intimidation in every conduct, which due to act or default, causes to women: physical, social, psychological or sexual injury. It is the result of an education where the abuse and the intimidation, in the current gender inequality, has been an experienced and learnt subject. Its signs may have different external expressions depending on sociocultural and educational elements, as well as location, country, town or ethnic group factors where it may occur. The goal of our job is focused on: Firstly, to know, after the bibliography revision, what domestic violence is; the description of the phases; the policies and legislation in health issues; and the health intervention, in force, related to the topic in Spain. And secondly, an intervention protocol that gives guidance to one of the involved collectives, the nursing collective, in order to pursue an action. Updated revision of bibliography about the health policies existing in Spain along with the current public health situation in the Spanish domestic violence approach. After the bibliographic analysis, given the problem identification, a proposal of issuing a protocol about domestic violence is presented based on the Methodology of Quality Management. Reviewed the bibliography about protocols for domestic violence and given the problem identification, the implementation of issuing a protocol is proposed.Descriptors: Protocol, Health Care Planning, Quality Management.