Hormônios, sexualidade e envelhecimento masculino: um estudo de imagens em websites

Abstract

This study focuses on the construction of male hormonal decline relating to aging as part of a more general process of medicalization of male sexuality and aging. In order to accomplish this objective, 14 websites of pharmaceutical laboratories that sell drugs for male sexual health and seven websites of medical-scientific associations focusing on male sexual health were surveyed. We used the images found on these sites as analysis material. Based on our analysis, we discuss the existence of a partnership between the medical-scientific associations and the pharmaceutical industry, which tends to present male aging as a medical problem and promotes hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with testosterone as a way of treating it. This therapy is also presented as a means to recover happiness, productivity, "quality of life" and wellbeing.

A crise de meia idade no homem: Aspectos fisiológicos e psicológicos

“…Diante disso, diferentes categorias/terminologias diagnósticas são empregadas no meio médico para caracterizar o declínio hormonal masculino relacionado ao envelhecimento: andropausa, deficiência androgênica do envelhecimento masculino (ADAM ou DAEM) e, mais recentemente, síndrome da deficiência de testosterona (TDS ou SDT) (Thiago, Russo & Camargo Júnior, 2016).…”

Representações sociais de masculinidades no curta-metragem “Aids, escolha sua forma de prevenção”

“…In the second stage, the short was submitted to content analysis according to the proposal of Thiago et al 19 , for later construction of thematic categories, to identify the main themes referring to the representations on masculinities, and association to the approaches of the social theories of gender and sexuality.…”

A Terapia Hormonal No Processo De Transexualização

“…A testosterona é uma forma de se alcançar melhorias tanto na representação sexual do indivíduo, quanto na mental e emocional. Os homens cis (que nasceram com a genitália masculina e se identificam como homens) que a utilizam desejam uma boa forma física, já os homens transexuais desejam o físico masculino (23,24) .…”