ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates performances of sexual violence against men as they were enacted in the conflicts in Bosnia and Croatia. It presents the empirical landscape of conflict-related sexual violence against men based on a survey of the International Criminal Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) database. The chapter examines how this violence was performed by actors involved in the conflict, and locates the meaning of these scripts in a situated heterosexist, reproductivist, gender order. The ICTY Court Records provide comprehensive descriptions of performances of violence collected as evidence for the prosecution of a range of human rights violations committed by all parties to the conflict in the Balkans. In former Yugoslavia, heteronormative sexual politics was instantiated in scripts of bodily violence against male bodies ranging from male-on-male penetrative rape to the expunging of phallic and reproductive attributes through genital mutilation.
