Hogging (sexual practice)

Practice

Individuals or groups have used hogging against women. Hogging often includes excessive alcohol consumption and emotional detachment. Hogging does not always include sexual intercourse, and often other sexual activities are the end goal. Participation sometimes includes making bets among male peers, as well as humiliating the woman involved.{{cite web | access-date =2007-09-23 }}

The practice has also been suggested as a manifestation of hypermasculinity, in which men who do not fit into normative expectations of manhood exhibit insecurity, defensiveness, and sexual aggression to make up for their incapacity to meet masculine standards. In this manner, hogging is described as a form of sexual predation in which sex is an act of conquest, not intimacy.

In society

In 2005, the Journal of Deviant Behaviour published a study of men's accounts of the practice. Writing in Inside Higher Ed the study's author claimed that its interviewers did not ask its interviewees if they had heard of the term, instead the author claimed "We simply asked them whether they had ever heard of a practice where men try to pick up women they deem fat or unattractive as part of a bet or for sex, and they responded, ‘Yeah, hogging.’”

References

References

1. (1 January 2007). "Youth Violence and Delinquency [Three Volumes]". Greenwood Publishing Group.
2. Gailey, Jeannine A.. (2007-02-23). ""Knocking off a Fat Girl:" an Exploration of Hogging, Male Sexuality, and Neutralizations". [[Deviant Behavior (journal).
3. Olmstead, Molly. (2018-02-07). "Cornell Frat Suspended for "Pig Roast" Game in Which Members Competed to Have Sex With Overweight Women".