What role do film and television have in how we understand and make sense of sexual violence? How do film and television contribute to or challenge prevailing myths around sexual violence? What does it mean to screen sexual violence? This week, I had the opportunity to attend an event that sums up for me why screening sexual violence matters.
by Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku, Finland.
In a scene from Jan Soldat’s 2016 documentary film, Coming of Age, a senior male couple recount the beginning of their relationship as a fisting date. Horst is sitting topless on a sofa and Kalle, dressed in a plastic bib and diaper, sits in a playpen hugging a teddy bear with a markedly pensive expression.
Screening Sex 