{"id":3275,"date":"2011-12-11T21:41:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2011\/12\/11\/why-do-lads-mags-offend-more-than-the-words-of-rapists"},"modified":"2011-12-11T22:06:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T22:06:37","slug":"why-do-lads-mags-offend-more-than-the-words-of-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2011\/12\/11\/why-do-lads-mags-offend-more-than-the-words-of-rapists","title":{"rendered":"Why do lads&#8217; mags offend more than the words of rapists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v4tQ9uMZyyI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title = \"Are sex offenders and lads' mags using the same language? - University of Surrey - Guildford\" href=\"http:\/\/www.surrey.ac.uk\/mediacentre\/press\/2011\/69535_are_sex_offenders_and_lads_mags_using_the_same_language.htm\">Are sex offenders and lads&#8217; mags using the same language? &#8211; University of Surrey &#8211; Guildford<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study carried out jointly by the universities of Middlesex and Surrey in the UK (press release above is from Surrey) have found that, when presented with quotes from lads&#8217; magazines and from interviews with convicted rapists, men have difficulty working out which is which, is likely to identify more with a quote he believes is from a lads&#8217; mag (which stands to reason, really) and often think that the quote from the lads&#8217; mag is more offensive than the one from the rapist. Jezebel has a <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5866602\/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-a-mens-magazine-and-a-rapist\">list of some of the quotes<\/a>, with the answers at the end.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#8217;ve never read a &#8220;lads&#8217; mag&#8221; in my life, so I wouldn&#8217;t know what&#8217;s in them and in what context these quotes appear. I agree that it&#8217;s disgusting that this sort of thing sells freely and perhaps that teenage boys as well as young men are being exposed to it. However, I wonder if they explored exactly why the lads&#8217; mags discussed women and sex in more offensive terms than the rapists did?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the reason is that the actual rapists came from a broad spectrum of social classes and many of them are middle-aged, milddle-class men who have not read many (or indeed any) of these magazines and are what you might call gentlemen if you didn&#8217;t know better. Lads&#8217; mags are aimed at a particular demographic: young, single men of a particular mentality, who might well share the magazines among themselves or pin the pictures from them up on their walls, either at home or at work. Besides which, the lads&#8217; mags are not actually referring to rape, so there is not the gravity to the situation and the writers feel free to talk about *sex* in ways that would not be acceptable in a prison group therapy session, or when spoken to a psychologist in a prison who he knows is certainly not &#8220;on the level&#8221; with him. The rapist also knows that to use brazenly offensive language about his own rapes might well prolong the time he spends inside.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the fact that this kind of material sells to young men is a great cause for concern, but it stands to reason that a midde-class rapist will sound less crude and offensive when talking about his crimes to professionals in prison than a lads&#8217; mag will, when it is their purpose to be crude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are sex offenders and lads&#8217; mags using the same language? &#8211; University of Surrey &#8211; Guildford A recent study carried out jointly by the universities of Middlesex and Surrey in the UK (press release&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[678,811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-gender"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-QP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}