Zbrodnicza przemoc sadomasochizmu? Zewnętrzne ramy interpretacji działań społecznych stosowane przez wymiar sprawiedliwości
Sinister Violence of Sadomasochism? Outer Frames of Interpretation of Social Action Used in Normalising Institutions

Summary/Abstract: Sadomasochism still is one of the most intensively criminalized sexual practices undertaken by consenting adults. The main controversy regards the interpretation of the violence acts involved. Social sciences have undertaken an alternative reflection on sadism and masochism, critical towards the clinical tradition. The interpretation processes, and framing of activities may be described using Erving Goffman’s frame analysis. In the broader perspective this extreme and striking situation demonstrates the role played in the normalizing social control institutions such as justice administration or medical bodies by the external interpretative procedures carried out by their representatives, as differing from the interpretations of the persons conducting this sort of social practices. However, this influence needs to stay unconscious in order for these institutions to operate in an efficient manner.

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