Sex trade among men

Negotiating Sex, Bodies and Identity Categories

Bibliographic Data

ID3920517
AuthorsMurilo Dos Santos Moscheta (0000-0001-7479-2651, Universidade Estadual de Maringá), Sheila Mcnamee (0000-0002-2364-033X, University of New Hampshire), Manoel Antônio Dos Santos (0000-0001-8214-7767, Universidade de São Paulo)
Year2013
Volume25
Issuespe
Pages44-53
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsicologia & Sociedade (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-7182 • E-ISSN: 1807-0310
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-71822013000500006
OpenAlexW1964770822
SCIELO_PIDS0102-71822013000500006
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited17

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

Conceptualization · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Masculinity · Negotiation · Normative · Political science · Politics · Social exclusion · Sociology · Subversion · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology