Stigma Syndemics by Bayla Ostrach Shir Lerman Merrill Singer

Author:Bayla Ostrach,Shir Lerman,Merrill Singer
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2012-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Incarceration’s Impact on the Language of Relationships

Violent language and jail terminology were used to describe many sexual acts and relationships (Hatcherson 2009). Explicitly violent relationships named by FGD participants included aggressive, violent, and dominant. Many women and some men recounted incidents of domestic violence, which they called simply “domestic.” Thus, saying a relationship was domestic meant it was violent. Other relationships were psychologically or emotionally violent, such as brain surgeon (someone who lies to get sex), pimp (someone who runs a string of sex workers with whom he is also sexually intimate), family freeway (someone who has sex with all the women in the family—sisters, mothers, aunts, cousins), and running a train (where a group of friends has sex with the same woman serially). Another relationship type described in an African-American female FGD was called jailbird, as these female African-American participants explained:

Participant 3: [Jailbird]—that’s like someone you done known and he telling you, I’m about to get locked up. I gotta do my biz for three months, so when I come out, we banging [having rough sex]. We bang bang. But you keep contact with the person the whole time they in jail, and then when they get out, it’s all that stress and he trying to pound it [have rough sex].

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