Violence
Adult Pornography and Violence Against Women in the Heartland: Results From a Rural Southeast Ohio Study.
Full Article Name: Adult Pornography and Violence Against Women in the Heartland: Results From a Rural Southeast Ohio Study
Open Access: No
Abstract
Many rural parts of the United States are now “pornified.” There is growing quantitative evidence revealing that rural women are at higher risk of being victimized by intimate violence than their urban and suburban counterparts. In-depth interviews with 55 rural southeast Ohio women who wanted to leave, were trying to leave, or were in the process of leaving, or who have left their male marital/cohabiting partners reveal that pornography is a major component of the problem of rural woman abuse. The main objective of this article is twofold: (a) to present the results of our qualitative study, and (b) to suggest future directions in theoretical and empirical work.
Relevance
Among rural women in the US, pornography consumption is a major component of the abuse of women by intimate partners. More than half of the sample “stated that pornography was involved in their sexual assaults.” These harms included partners imitating violent sex seen in pornography, forcing sexual activities, filming sexual acts without consent, and sexual assault.
Citation
DeKeseredy, W. S., & Hall-Sanchez, A. (2017). Adult pornography and violence against women in the heartland: Results from a rural Southeast Ohio study. Violence against women, 23(7), 830–849. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801216648795