ABSTRACT

In this chapter, I present the stories of seven individuals – five men and two women – who were subjected to sex with an adult who occupied a position of trust within their sporting life. These are their stories in their words, reconstructed from interview data so they can be read as a more or less coherent whole. Following these reconstructed stories, I then offer a second construction through the application of Bourdieu’s conceptual framework to the individual accounts provided by these ‘survivors’. As Grenfell notes:

Biographical data are not enough on their own. They also need to be analysed with respect to field positions, structures, and their underlying logic of practice; and most importantly the relationship between field and habitus – not just the one and/or the other.