Learning and practice in the constitution of sexuality of the mentally deficient person

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Myrna Wolf Brachmann dos
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Osório, Antônio Carlos do Nascimento
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/1437
• topic: Sexuality; The mentally deficient person; Sexual orientation.

Taking as a starting point the analysis of ten research reports, and founded on the studies of Michel Foucault, this text aims at making evident the existing relationship between the producing of learning and daily practices that are established in society. It is part of a dissertation that analyzed academic productions, the theme of which is sexuality in the mentally deficient person, relating them to the project of sexual orientation developed with mentally deficient young people. In this association it is possible to identify conceptions of sexuality and mental deficiency presented from the point of view of biology and conditioned by the proposition of sexual orientation taken as an “antidote” for the problem of the manifestations of sexuality in the subjects studied. This leads to the necessity of attention and reflection on perspectives and the new practices which produce other truths about sexuality and about the sexuality of the mentally deficient person.