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I dont see the that there is a good side to assault or wounding.
The difference between a stabbing and a carpet burn is fairly obvious to a person who has been stabbed or carpet burned their knee. What we call assault is in every case a matter of degree - and in every case we consider injury's caused, the intent of the person committing the crime, and aggrivating factors.
So called consent can only be considered as an aggrivating factor... in my opinion I broadly agree with the UK Law - that if someone consents to be wounded their consent should be assumed as coerced or not given responsibly unless there is strong evidence otherwise. Whether I think the activity if perverted is neither here nor there, the case is whether the person involved has been hurt badly, and whether they have a right to be protected from being hurt badly (even if it means protection from themselves).
I am not saying either than women should be somehow immune to prosecution in these cases, only that in actual reality the cases which in consideration of the damage done, the intent of the criminal and the aggrivating factors - 99.9% of the time the criminal will be a man. There really are very very few female violent criminals. Im not saying it cannot happen, but it does not happen very often.
In relation to the OP, my view is that if a man is shown to have coerced consent (based on our judgment of what a sane person would consent to) from a woman to cut her for his own sexual gratification - I would recomend 18 months inside for this: and also that this man is given counselling. I am not a killjoy, but taking sexual pleasure from harming someone is in my opinion a moral wrong, a slippery slope that will if unchecked most likely lead to worse actions. Without wanting to be over the top, most serial killers demonstrate this characteristic.
And the difference between a "normal" man who might give his partner a spank which is meant as titiliation, and an "abnormal" man who will wound his partner with a knife as a sex game is - quite simply, in the line that is crossed. The line is when the action becomes ABH or wounding (ie - between the immediate application os a stinging or slightly painful sensation, and a lasting injury)
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