Theorized through Stanley Cohen’s sociology of denial and informed by testimonies from formerly imprisoned men, this article argues that a culture of denial limits the ability and willingness of prison authorities and prison staff to recognise, acknowledge, and respond appropriately to the realities of sexual activity in British prisons. It has three objectives: to detail experiences of consensual and coercive sex; to elucidate the collective and collaborative cultural habit of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ by which what it known becomes not known and what is concealed, remains hidden; and to show how this strategy leaves unprotected those who choose to engage in, or are coerced into, sexual activity.

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英国男子监狱中的性活动：否认文化

本文通过斯坦利·科恩的否认社会学理论化，并从前被监禁男子的证词中获取信息，认为否认文化限制了监狱当局和监狱工作人员识别、承认和适当应对性活动现实的能力和意愿。英国监狱。它有三个目标：详细描述双方同意和强迫性行为的经历；阐明“不问，不说”的集体协作文化习惯，通过这种习惯，已知的变为未知，隐藏的仍然隐藏；并展示这种策略如何让那些选择从事或被迫从事性活动的人不受保护。