Rough Sex

Over the past twenty years there has been an increase in the number of cases where women have been killed or injured by men during a sexual encounter and where the perpetrators have claimed that what occurred was consensual rough sex. Colloquially, this has become known – in media and political discourses most notably – as the-‘rough sex defence’. Claiming rough sexual practice was consented to can work to reduce a charge of murder to manslaughter, one of manslaughter to accidental death and to