AIDS and women in Brazil: The emerging problem

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“…Studies have identified Brazil as having the highest prevalence of heterosexual anal sex participation (in addition to its historical position as having the second or third largest AIDS caseload worldwide) (32). It is clear that anal sex is more openly eroticized in Brazil than in most other countries; the fact that the ''butt'' represents a major erotic zone in Brazilian sexual culture most likely contributes to this finding (33)(34)(35). An ethnographic study showed that anal sex was linked to a cultural need to subjugate women using more than one type of intercourse.…”

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“…Studies have identified Brazil as having the highest prevalence of heterosexual anal sex participation (in addition to its historical position as having the second or third largest AIDS caseload worldwide) (32). It is clear that anal sex is more openly eroticized in Brazil than in most other countries; the fact that the ''butt'' represents a major erotic zone in Brazilian sexual culture most likely contributes to this finding (33)(34)(35). An ethnographic study showed that anal sex was linked to a cultural need to subjugate women using more than one type of intercourse.…”

Restraining Women: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity in Salvador da Bahia

“…But then perhaps women never were as contained as popular wisdom has it, nor men as autonomous or powerful as some make out. Parker (1991) and Goldstein (1994) for a discussion of this point in the light of research about sexual experience among low-income women. 3.…”

Restraining Women: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity in Salvador da Bahia

“…Parker (1991) and Goldstein (1994) for a discussion of this point in the light of research about sexual experience among low-income women. When they succeed, then perhaps the story of the loss of female respectability and the decadence of modernity will lose its signi"cance.…”

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“…Studies have identified Brazil as having the highest prevalence of heterosexual anal sex participation (in addition to its historical position as having the second or third largest AIDS caseload worldwide) (32). It is clear that anal sex is more openly eroticized in Brazil than in most other countries; the fact that the ''butt'' represents a major erotic zone in Brazilian sexual culture most likely contributes to this finding (33)(34)(35). An ethnographic study showed that anal sex was linked to a cultural need to subjugate women using more than one type of intercourse.…”

Restraining Women: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity in Salvador da Bahia

“…But then perhaps women never were as contained as popular wisdom has it, nor men as autonomous or powerful as some make out. Parker (1991) and Goldstein (1994) for a discussion of this point in the light of research about sexual experience among low-income women. 3.…”

Restraining Women: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity in Salvador da Bahia

“…Parker (1991) and Goldstein (1994) for a discussion of this point in the light of research about sexual experience among low-income women. When they succeed, then perhaps the story of the loss of female respectability and the decadence of modernity will lose its signi"cance.…”

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“…Studies have identified Brazil as having the highest prevalence of heterosexual anal sex participation (in addition to its historical position as having the second or third largest AIDS caseload worldwide) (32). It is clear that anal sex is more openly eroticized in Brazil than in most other countries; the fact that the ''butt'' represents a major erotic zone in Brazilian sexual culture most likely contributes to this finding (33)(34)(35). An ethnographic study showed that anal sex was linked to a cultural need to subjugate women using more than one type of intercourse.…”

Restraining Women: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity in Salvador da Bahia

“…But then perhaps women never were as contained as popular wisdom has it, nor men as autonomous or powerful as some make out. Parker (1991) and Goldstein (1994) for a discussion of this point in the light of research about sexual experience among low-income women. 3.…”

Restraining Women: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity in Salvador da Bahia

“…Parker (1991) and Goldstein (1994) for a discussion of this point in the light of research about sexual experience among low-income women. When they succeed, then perhaps the story of the loss of female respectability and the decadence of modernity will lose its signi"cance.…”