Adult Pornography and Violence Against Women in the Heartland: Results From a Rural Southeast Ohio Study. (June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: DeKeseredy, Walter S.; Hall-Sanchez, Amanda
• Is Part Of: Violence against women. Volume 23:Number 7(2017)
• Page Start: 830
• Page End: 849
• Publication Date: 2017-06
• Subjects: pornography -- rural -- violence -- gender -- separation/divorce; Abused women -- Periodicals; Women -- Crimes against -- Periodicals; Violent crimes -- Periodicals; Femmes victimes de violence -- Périodiques; Femmes, Crimes contre les -- Périodiques; Crimes violents -- Périodiques; 362.8292
• DOI: 10.1177/1077801216648795
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8012

Abstract

Many rural parts of the United States are now "pornified." There is growing quantitative evidence revealing that rural women are at higher risk of being victimized by intimate violence than their urban and suburban counterparts. In-depth interviews with 55 rural southeast Ohio women who wanted to leave, were trying to leave, or were in the process of leaving, or who have left their male marital/cohabiting partners reveal that pornography is a major component of the problem of rural woman abuse. The main objective of this article is twofold: (a) to present the results of our qualitative study, and (b) to suggest future directions in theoretical and empirical work.