TY  - SER
AU  - Gavey, Nicola
TI  - Deconstructing "rough sex" in a New Zealand murder trial: beyond the modern mythology of everyday kink
PY  - 2024///
PB  - Sage, 
KW  - ATTITUDES
KW  - CRIMINAL JUSTICE
KW  - EVIDENCE
KW  - FEMICIDE
KW  - HOMICIDE
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - PĀRURENGA
KW  - PŪNAHA TURE TAIHARA
KW  - SEXUAL VIOLENCE
KW  - STRANGULATION
KW  - TAITŌKAI
KW  - TŪKINOTANGA Ā-WHĀNAU
KW  - TURE HARA
KW  - VICTIM/SURVIVORS' VOICES
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - Social & Legal Studies, 2024, First published online, 26 December 2024
N2  - I analyse the way ‘rough sex’, including ‘choking’, was normalised during the 2019 trial of Jesse Kempson for the murder of Grace Millane – and portrayed as a modern form of mutual and egalitarian sexual exploration, particularly for young people. While the so-called ‘rough sex defence’ has been widely critiqued for the way it operates in the criminal justice system to minimise violence against women and blame victims for their own murder or assault, I focus here on the wider social implications of such legal arguments. I identify how the trial was infused with a ‘modern mythology of everyday kink’ discourse, which I critically deconstruct through the lens of three women's stories about unwanted or unenjoyed ‘rough sex’. I show that this discourse obscures and enables concerning new patterns of hurtful, exploitative and violent acts against women and girls that are becoming normalised and legitimated in the name of (rough) sex. (Author's abstract). Record #9124
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241292689
ER  -