Home Office guidelines offer a long list of examples of coercive control – humiliation, rape, denigration, threats of violence – all of which would be instantly recognisable to Archers' listeners.
So if women who fantasise about rape or coercive sex are actually some of the most liberated out there, is it the same story for women who watch violent porn?
NA = Not available The spectrum of participant-reported human rights violations in our study ranged from minor verbal abuse or disrespect such as name calling to egregious violations of human dignity such as rape and coercive sex.
(FG 3) Large empirical studies in South Africa have reported high rates of men who admit to perpetrating rape or sexual coercive practices (Jewkes, Morrell, and Christofides 2009), which has bolstered arguments that coercive sexual practices are endemic in normative heterosex (Shefer and Foster 2009; Varga and Makubalo 1996).
He also disagreed with the label of paraphilic coercive disorder: "In my view, rape is a crime and should not necessarily be regarded as a disorder.
This conversation should include the creation of strategies to empower girls to prevent coercive sex and to report rape and abuse, strengthen the legal system to enforce the child marriage ban, and create a system that protects and values girls rather than punishing them for things that are beyond their control.
What remained unclear was the character of the relationship consensual or coercive, a matter of love or rape, or a mutually satisfactory arrangement.
Which (if any) such nonviolent coercive pressures should be regarded as rape, either morally or legally, is a matter of some controversy (Schulhofer 1998; Burgess-Jackson 1996, 91-106).
Sadism and rape myth acceptance predicted coercive behavior in women, just as in men.
And the rape may have been coercive and unwanted, but it was not violent.
