Painful TV
There is a new and profitable market for the infliction of real pain on television, most notably in the British reality television shows ‘Balls of Steel’ and ‘Dirty Sanchez’, which involve two men, known as the ‘Pain Men’, who deliberately inflict consensual pain on each other in order to entertain...
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2016-06-01
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| description | There is a new and profitable market for the infliction of real pain on television, most notably in the British reality television shows ‘Balls of Steel’ and ‘Dirty Sanchez’, which involve two men, known as the ‘Pain Men’, who deliberately inflict consensual pain on each other in order to entertain their television audience. The law says that the consent of the ‘victim’ to an infliction of actual bodily harm does not usually prevent criminal liability of the ‘perpetrator’. The leading case authority is R v Brown where bodily harm was inflicted for sadomasochistic pleasure. In the words of Lord Templeman, ‘[The] violence of sadomasochistic encounters involves the indulgence of cruelty… Society is entitled and bound to protect itself against a cult of violence. Pleasure derived from the infliction of pain is an evil thing’. Have the ‘Pain Men’ committed crimes? It could be argued that consensual infliction of bodily harm ‘for entertainment’ should be exempted from prosecution as a ‘lawful activity’ (like boxing, horseplay or bravado). Channel 4 argued that the ‘Pain Men’ were exercising their right to freedom of expression which is protected under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. One must therefore consider the impact of the Pain Men’s activities on public health and public morals with reference to the trend towards liberalism in the UK television culture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-30b801d563a846dab072b5aaf67707582022-12-22T03:45:55ZengUniversity of Westminster PressEntertainment and Sports Law Journal1748-944X2016-06-019110.16997/eslj.27Painful TVTarik Sabry0Communication and Media Research Institute University of WestminsterThere is a new and profitable market for the infliction of real pain on television, most notably in the British reality television shows ‘Balls of Steel’ and ‘Dirty Sanchez’, which involve two men, known as the ‘Pain Men’, who deliberately inflict consensual pain on each other in order to entertain their television audience. The law says that the consent of the ‘victim’ to an infliction of actual bodily harm does not usually prevent criminal liability of the ‘perpetrator’. The leading case authority is R v Brown where bodily harm was inflicted for sadomasochistic pleasure. In the words of Lord Templeman, ‘[The] violence of sadomasochistic encounters involves the indulgence of cruelty… Society is entitled and bound to protect itself against a cult of violence. Pleasure derived from the infliction of pain is an evil thing’. Have the ‘Pain Men’ committed crimes? It could be argued that consensual infliction of bodily harm ‘for entertainment’ should be exempted from prosecution as a ‘lawful activity’ (like boxing, horseplay or bravado). Channel 4 argued that the ‘Pain Men’ were exercising their right to freedom of expression which is protected under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. One must therefore consider the impact of the Pain Men’s activities on public health and public morals with reference to the trend towards liberalism in the UK television culture.https://www.entsportslawjournal.com/article/id/804/<i>Pain Men</i>BrowntelevisionharmBodily |
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