Psychological Experiences of Men Seeking Sex Workers. A Proposal of Psychological-phenomenological Analysis.

• Autor(a) principal: Goto, Tommy Akira
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Costa, Ileno Izídio da, Schievano, Bruna Alves
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Psicologia (Fortaleza. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/psicologiaufc/article/view/33703

The search for men by sex workers is still a significant fact in many social, economic and cultural contexts. Therefore, understanding that prostitution has its place in the history of human relations, this research aimed to analyze the psychological experiences of men in the search of sex workers. For the research the phenomenological-empirical method of A. Giorgi and D. Souza (2010) was chosen, with changes proposed by Goto and Feijoo (2016), which consisted in a first moment, to find the essential meanings lived in the then recognize and distinguish the psychological experiences that underlie these meanings. Seven men over the age of 18 and clients of these professionals participated. The interviews were based on a guiding question. In the analysis of the experiences was found as essential meaning the sexual satisfaction, as well as other meanings but of particular order. After the delimitation of meanings was analyzed step-by-step how these meanings are psychologically lived from their structures and psychic conditions, resorting to the psychological-phenomenological descriptions of Husserl, Stein and von Hildebrand. It was concluded that the psychological experience of men is essentially a bodily-affective experience, which arises impulsively in a natural and spontaneous way, and that seeks to maintain the predominance of an affective state of pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction but having as an end an intersubjective nexus.