Youth, gender and sexual practices in Brazil

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4811086
AutoresMaria Luiza Heilborn (0000-0002-0581-5466, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Cristiane Da Silva Cabral (0000-0003-3025-2404, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Ano2013
Volume25
Fascículospe
Páginas33-43
Data de publicação2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPsicologia & Sociedade (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0102-7182 • E-ISSN: 1807-0310
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-71822013000500005
OpenAlexW2088388973
SCIELO_PIDS0102-71822013000500005
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas15

Based on a survey developed in three Brazilian state capitals, this paper presents data and interpretations about the sexual practices and management of sexual desire among male and female youth. The findings indicate a close connection between gender and sexuality in modeling individuals' sexual trajectories and subjectivities. There is a higher acceptance of practices formerly considered to be deviant, revealing that sexual morality among youth has acquired a more modern configuration. This paper argues that there is a differentiated modernization of sexual values: gender disparities were detected in the answers of respondents in all social environments. The increasing flexibility of individual trajectories does not necessarily lead to gender equality. The affirmation that the individualizing process coexists with the persistence of traditional gender ideology entails the recognition that men and women's, and different generations' and social segments' modernization paths do not evolve in the same way

Developmental psychology · Flexibility (engineering) · Human sexuality · Ideology · Modernization theory · Morality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Gender Studies · Gender, Sexuality, and Education · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology