Risco e êxtase nas práticas eróticas

Abstract

The present article reflects upon the different experiences involved in contemporary eroticisms. Principally, we concentrate on how these practices permit us to decipher links between sexual practices, gender norms, and the limits of sexuality (that is, the frontier zone between norms and transgression, consent and abuse, pain and pleasure). Our main question is with regards to a more general trend (which is quite strong in Brazil): the shift from erotic forms and experiences that were understood in the 1980s to be pro-sex or sexually liberating (the alternatives and rhetoric of the debates surrounding the collection Pleasure and Pain edited by Carol Vance in 1984) towards new semantics and practices of bodily eroticization and of the risks of the frontier zone where terms such as consent and vulnerability exist in dispute and tension.

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“…In this sense, risk appears as an important element of erotic practices, especially when it is associated with the transgression of social norms and conventions, with the power, as Gregori 56 points out, to jeopardize gender and sexuality conventions, making it impossible to retain complete control or the assurance that abuse and violence will be avoided. In this perspective, for us to better understand the situations in which condomless sex takes place, it is important to bring to the forefront of the analysis these threshold situations of tension between pleasure and risk/danger or, as Gregori 57 (p. 3) insists, these "limits of sexuality", understood as a "borderline zone where norm and transgression, consent and abuse, pleasure and pain coexist".…”

“…In other words, transgression is a high-risk activity because it confronts the given or set conceptual (and bodily) boundaries. Following this line of thinking, feelings of ecstasy, losing one's head, or losing oneself in another 56 when engaging in erotic practices may be risky because they challenge our Western ideas of self-determination, self-regulation, order, and self-containment or even control of our bodies, while at the same time they may produce a sense of anxiety around the relaxation and loss of control of the boundaries of the body/self 59 .…”

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“…O conceito de consentimento é interessante porque ele estabelece, no quadro das relações entre violência e gênero de que falava Sarti (2011), uma aproximação com os próprios limites da sexualidade, como coloca Gregori (2016). Assim, se em termos normativos o gênero é produzido no contexto de uma matriz de inteligibilidade, como falava Butler (2003, p.49), essas relações são ativadas também em situações de assédio e de violência que transformam o corpo das mulheres, ou corpos LGBTI como um território que pode ser acessado, ignorando a agência e a própria recusa do indivíduo.…”

“…Retomando Gregori (2016) em seu debate sobre as formas contemporâneas de sexualidade, a autora aponta os limites de se pensar o consentimento como única categoria de oposição à vulnerabilidade. Nas palavras da autora:…”