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Regarding the ‘circumstances’ of SM, some feminist commentators have even gone
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Legitimate form of sexual expression, deserving of privacy rights, where the SM does not involve ‘assaults occasioning ABH’ at all, and is in fact a Three-pronged nature of my argument undermines the legitimacy of such a modus operandi in relation to SM,Ĭircumstances’ of SM have been misunderstood by the courts in the first place. Thus the operation of consent in such a context is rendered irrelevant. The ‘exceptional categories’ into being, while sado-masochistic acts byĬontrast are defined by the law as inherently ‘violent’ as opposed to ‘sexual’ and Vaguely qualifying level and circumstances of harm have thus gradually brought Reference to the level of harm and the circumstances in which it is inflicted’. Where the activities are likely to be ‘injurious to the public’ thatĮnglish law so restricts the validity of consent to certain activities ‘by Why has the line been drawn in this place at all? It seems to be on anĪrbitrary policy basis centred on the likelihood of permanent injury or maims, aīreach of the peace, or crucially in Brown, Philosophical, sociological and legal standpoints, highlight the ‘flimsy andīases for this dividing line being drawn where it has. The case law has firmly, yet erroneously established that SM can only beĬonsidered within the ambit of the latter. Within one of the categories of exception. Is important to determine where the dividing line is between those cases whereĬonsent is relevant to the criminalisation of activities, and those cases whichĪre unlawful in themselves, whether consented to or not, unless they fall Itself, precludes the criminalisation of the behaviour, or whether consent
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Into whether the existence of consent, as a vital element of the offence This is substituted for the ordinary inquiry Law, which subsequently legalises the conduct in question. The criminalisation of theirīehaviour was affirmed by the European Court of Human Rights when Brown was considered at theĬonsensual assault causing ‘harm’ above the level of assault (such as in SM) isīehaviour falls within one of the exceptional categories grafted by the common
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The participants complained to the police, the events were conducted in privateĪnd without causing lasting injury, and, crucially for our purposes, wereĬonducted with the full consent of the participants. Were convicted under sections 47 and 20 of the Offences Against the Person Actġ861 for engaging in sado-masochistic practices, notwithstanding that none of In this case, a group of men (‘the appellants’) Is fortified by the UK House of Lords’ landmark, yet bare majority decision in R v Brown, decided almost 20 years ago. Perverted practice which naturally warrants repugnance. This approach was both misguided and is now acutely outmoded.Įven though the answer to the definition question is a resounding ‘no’, SM hasīeen marred by negative connotations which suggest that it represents a Were borne out by his bizarre studies of 1886. To some extent characterised by Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s a priori conception of ‘deviant’ sexual traits which he claimed Our conceptions of sado-masochism, and contemporary methods of etiology, are still Who would not identify themselves as sado-masochists enjoy sexual acts that In fact a ‘stable proportion of the population’ But in a society which no longer openly condemns eitherĮxperimentation, the line between sado-masochistic sex and ‘normal’ sex is increasinglyīlurred. Instruments, PVC and a disenfranchised homosexual minority engaging in actions Legal regulation? For many people SM conjures up images of dangerous To the fore - can we conclusively define sado-masochism for the purposes of Investigation into the law on sado-masochism (‘SM’) brings one major question