Citation

McKee A. Arch. Sex. Behav. 2014; 44(1): 81-87.

Affiliation

Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4059, Australia, a.mckee@qut.edu.au.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10508-013-0253-3

PMID

24609608

Abstract

There exists an important tradition of content analyses of aggression in sexually explicit material. The majority of these analyses use a definition of aggression that excludes consent. This article identifies three problems with this approach. First, it does not distinguish between aggression and some positive acts. Second, it excludes a key element of healthy sexuality. Third, it can lead to heteronormative definitions of healthy sexuality. It would be better to use a definition of aggression such as Baron and Richardson's (1994) in our content analyses, that includes a consideration of consent. A number of difficulties have been identified with attending to consent but this article offers solutions to each of these.

Language: en