Aliraza Javaid is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of East London, UK. His research interests are gender, sexualities, masculinities, police and policing, sexual violence, the sociology of 'evil', and the sociology of love. He is the author of Male Rape, Masculinities, and Sexualities: Understanding, Policing, and Overcoming Male Sexual Victimisation (2018) and Masculinities, Sexualities, and Love (2018).