"You kind of blame it on the alcohol, but. . .": A discourse analysis of alcohol use and sexual consent among young men in Vancouver, Canada

被引:5
作者
Goodyear, Trevor [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Oliffe, John L. [4 ,5 ]
Kia, Hannah [6 ]
Jenkins, Emily K. [1 ,3 ]
Knight, Rod [2 ,7 ,8 ,9 ]
机构
[1] Univ British Columbia, Sch Nursing, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[2] British Columbia Ctr Subst Use, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[3] Wellstream Canadian Ctr Innovat Child & Youth Ment, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[4] Univ British Columbia, Sch Nursing, Mens Hlth Promot, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[5] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
[6] Univ British Columbia, Sch Social Work, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[7] Univ Montreal, Sch Publ Hlth, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[8] Ctr Rech Sante Publ CReSP, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[9] Univ Montreal, Ecole Sante Publ, Dept Med Sociale & Prevent, 7101 Ave Parc,Bur 3123, Montreal, PQ H3N 1X9, Canada
来源
HEALTH | 2025年 / 29卷 / 01期
基金
加拿大健康研究院;
关键词
alcohol; gender-based sexual violence; men; sex; sexual consent; youth; VIOLENCE; RAPE; DRUNK;
D O I
10.1177/13634593231214942
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
There is growing awareness about issues of sexual consent, especially in autonomy-compromising or "non-ideal" contexts, including sex involving alcohol. Understanding the conditions needed for consensual sex to occur in this emergent milieu is critically important, especially for young men (ages 18-30 years) who normatively combine drinking alcohol with sex and are most often perpetrators of sexual violence. This study offers a discourse analysis of young men's alcohol use and sexual consent. Data are drawn from qualitative interviews with 76 young men (including gay, bisexual, queer, and straight men) in Vancouver, Canada, from 2018 to 2021. Informed by Kukla's non-ideal theory of sexual consent and critical and inclusive masculinities, this analysis identified three discursive frames: careful connections, watering it down, and blurred lines. In careful connections young men discussed their efforts to actively promote sexual and decisional autonomy for themselves and their sexual partners when drinking. Yet, in watering it down young men invoked discourses of disinhibition, deflection, and denial to normalize alcohol use as being somewhat excusatory for sexual violence, downplaying the role and responsibility of men. Lastly, men operationalized blurred lines through a continuum of consent and of "meeting (masculine) expectations" when discussing sexual violence and victimization while intoxicated. Together, these discursive frames provide insights into the gendered nature of sexual violence and the extent to which idealized notions of sexual consent play out in the everyday lives of young men who use alcohol with sex. Findings hold philosophical and pragmatic implications for contemporary efforts to scaffold sexual consent.
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页码:118 / 139
页数:22
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