ePrints

Dirty Pleasures: the ethics of the representation of sexual violence

Lookup NU author(s): Professor David RoseORCiD

Downloads

• Published version [.pdf]

Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND).

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to assert that any moral critique or political censorship of sexually violent imagery cannot be justified with reference to participants nor matters of taste. Rather, the present paper seeks to distinguish objectification and alienation and apply this distinction to the issue of the representation of sexual violence. Alienation is the morally problematic category because systems of domination and control determine the expressions and consumption of desires, but this means that the violence in such material may well be a red herring.

Publication metadata

Author(s): Rose DE

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Philosophical Journal of Violence and Conflict

Year: 2018

Volume: 2

Issue: 1

Pages: 97-111

Online publication date: 12/09/2018

Acceptance date: 27/04/2018

Date deposited: 12/09/2018

ISSN (print): 2559-9917

ISSN (electronic): 2559-9798

Publisher: Trivent Publishing

URL: https://trivent-publishing.eu/journals/pjcv2-1/07.%20David%20Edward%20Rose.pdf

Share