ABSTRACT
This chapter offers compelling interventions which advance our understandings of how sexual violence against men has been framed across different discursive spaces. It demonstrates one of the perhaps unavoidable compromises entailed in framing sexual violence: namely, how to balance the necessity of highlighting a form of violence which has so often been obscured with the recognition that it is embedded in and enabled by so many other power structures and forms of harm. That is, while drawing attention specifically to sexual violence against men is politically and analytically crucial, the act of doing so also runs the risk of isolating ‘sexual’ from ‘non-sexual’ violence. The chapter provides valuable material through which to reflect on these questions, enabling us to make sense of sexual violence against men (SVAM) through a reflexive, critical, and gendered lens.
