Sex trade among men: negotiating sex, bodies and identity categories

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Autor(a) principal: Moscheta,Murilo dos Santos
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: McNamee,Sheila, Santos,Manoel Antônio dos
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Psicologia & Sociedade (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-71822013000500006
Resumo: Commercial sex is a marginalized and highly stigmatized activity in Brazilian culture. In this article we aim at investigating the discursive strategies used by young men who trade sex in order to resist stigmatization and social exclusion. We interviewed 24 young men who trade sex in a medium sized city in Brazil. Discursive strategies used by the interviewees to avoid social stigma could be summarized as (1) a reduction of sexual activity to its commercial sense by employing a conceptualization of masculinity that focuses on moral values and disregards sexual intercourse, (2) an emphasis on the anatomic characteristics as a criterion to delimit sexual identification categories, and (3) a shifting of sexual systems from one based on sexual object choice to one based on sexual aim. The discussion highlights that the interviewees were actively negotiating with normative assumptions of sexuality and thus producing either its subversion or conservation.
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title Sex trade among men: negotiating sex, bodies and identity categories
spellingShingle Sex trade among men: negotiating sex, bodies and identity categories
Moscheta,Murilo dos Santos
sexuality
sex discrimination
juvenile prostitution
title_short Sex trade among men: negotiating sex, bodies and identity categories
title_full Sex trade among men: negotiating sex, bodies and identity categories
title_fullStr Sex trade among men: negotiating sex, bodies and identity categories
title_full_unstemmed Sex trade among men: negotiating sex, bodies and identity categories
title_sort Sex trade among men: negotiating sex, bodies and identity categories
author Moscheta,Murilo dos Santos
author_facet Moscheta,Murilo dos Santos
McNamee,Sheila
Santos,Manoel Antônio dos
author_role author
author2 McNamee,Sheila
Santos,Manoel Antônio dos
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Moscheta,Murilo dos Santos
McNamee,Sheila
Santos,Manoel Antônio dos
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv sexuality
sex discrimination
juvenile prostitution
topic sexuality
sex discrimination
juvenile prostitution
description Commercial sex is a marginalized and highly stigmatized activity in Brazilian culture. In this article we aim at investigating the discursive strategies used by young men who trade sex in order to resist stigmatization and social exclusion. We interviewed 24 young men who trade sex in a medium sized city in Brazil. Discursive strategies used by the interviewees to avoid social stigma could be summarized as (1) a reduction of sexual activity to its commercial sense by employing a conceptualization of masculinity that focuses on moral values and disregards sexual intercourse, (2) an emphasis on the anatomic characteristics as a criterion to delimit sexual identification categories, and (3) a shifting of sexual systems from one based on sexual object choice to one based on sexual aim. The discussion highlights that the interviewees were actively negotiating with normative assumptions of sexuality and thus producing either its subversion or conservation.
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