著者

齋藤 梓 大竹 裕子

出版者

北海道大学公共政策大学院

雑誌

年報 公共政策学 (ISSN:18819818)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, pp.185-205, 2019

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Whether 'sex without consent' should constitute the legal definition of sexual violence instead of the 'assault or intimidation requirement' has been discussed extensively in Japan. Applying qualitative methods, we conducted thematic analysis on oral and written narratives of consensual and non-consensual sex obtained from 30 Japanese women. Findings suggest that non-consensual sex most typically happen through 'entrapment', referring to the process through which the perpetrator exploits an unequal power relation in everyday life and corners the victim into a situation where she cannot resist, escape, or express refusal.