Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards: adolescents’ narratives of sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts

Tokle, Rikke; Buvik, Kristin; Stefansen, Kari; Solstad, Gerd Marie

doi:10.1080/13676261.2023.2174010

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“…Drinking alcohol can contribute to social capital (Demant and Järvinen, 2011) and signify group belonging (Buvik et al, 2022). Subsequently, many young people are eager to participate, despite being well aware of the sexual risks involved – particularly for girls (Tokle et al, 2023). Parties are also attractive, according to Measham (2002: 345), because they offer the possibility for a ‘controlled loss of control’, for instance to engage in casual hook-ups (Bogren et al, 2023).…”

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What Happened to Me? Ambiguity and Surety in Narratives of Intoxicated Sexual Assault

Stefansen,

Solstad,

Tokle

2023

Sociology

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Intoxicated sexual assault is the most common type of sexual assault but is rarely unpacked as a social phenomenon. Our analysis represents a novel approach to opening the broad category of intoxicated sexual assaults for further theorisation and identifies some of the social mechanisms that underlie victims’ sensemaking in the aftermath of such assaults. Drawing on qualitative interviews with female victims, we present a typology of four experientially different assault situations: ‘manipulative assault’, ‘opportunistic exploitation’, ‘sexually violent effervescence’ and ‘scripted compliance’ – each with a different lead-up and interactional pattern. Across these often messy and disorienting situations, socio-sexual status dynamics affected the victims’ understanding of what had happened: violations by low-status assailants were more clear-cut and easier to define as serious, while narrations involving high-status assailants were more ambiguous.

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