Entre dinheiro, autoestima e ato sexual: representações sociais da satisfação sexual para trabalhadoras sexuais

Abstract

Objetivo: Analisar a centralidade na estrutura das representações sociais elaboradas por trabalhadoras sexuais sobre satisfação sexual. Método: Estudo qualitativo, fundamentado na abordagem estrutural da Teoria das Representações Sociais. Realizado com 69 prostitutas da região do Alto Sertão Produtivo Baiano. Utilizou-se um roteiro para aplicação do Teste de Associação Livre de Palavras e Entrevista em Profundidade, cujas respostas foram analisadas com o auxílio dos softwares EVOC e IRAMUTEQ. Resultados: A centralidade representacional das trabalhadoras sexuais sobre satisfação sexual está estruturada nos termos dinheiro e satisfação, esse último como sinônimo de prazer. Tais termos revelaram três dimensões representacionais transversais: autoestima, ato sexual e financeira. Assim, as representações sociais sobre satisfação sexual estiveram centradas na satisfação financeira e sexual. Conclusão: As representações permitem sugerir que enfermeiras repensem suas práticas de cuidado dispensadas às trabalhadoras sexuais, para além da prevenção de agravos, focando nos aspectos subjetivos da sexualidade, que é uma necessidade humana básica.

Mental health of female sex workers in the COVID-19 pandemic: stressors and coping strategies

“…In research developed with sex workers, both in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and in a city in Southeast Asia, it was evidenced that they were at the base of the social pyramid and had little time of schooling. Some other previous research confirms the results presented here, because although historically these women have composed groups of people in situations of vulnerability to STI/HIV, effectiveness in health education strategies for health promotion and STI prevention was noticed, allowing the adherence to condom and hormonal contraceptive use 9,16,[25][26][27] .…”

“…The study was developed in the Alto Sertão Produtivo Baiano, which has 19 municipalities and around 400,000 inhabitants 16 . Meetings took place in reserved rooms in a hall of an evangelical church, in the locality where the various establishments are located -bars, restaurants, pensions and inns -used for women to meet with clients.…”

“…get little rest, as they have to take care of other tasks 13,21 . The damage to this basic human need worsened with the pandemic period, due to the difficulty in putting food at home, in addition to insomnia contributing to the emergence of psycho-emotional disorders 4,16,17 .…”

“…It is noteworthy that sex work, under the bias of progressive feminist theorists, is understood as a labor activity, being a paid and consented sexual practice, in which there is an exchange of sexual pleasure (of the client) for income or other means that allow the women included in this practical way of livelihood/subsistence, evidenced in studies both in Brazil and in European countries, such as France, where this understanding also exists [12][13][14][15][16] .…”

“…However, the consensual paid sex market, as well as the women's confrontation with the problems arising in the exercise of this profession, is marginalized in several nations, such as Brazil, as well as African and Asian countries (such as Malaysia) 13,[15][16][17][18] , because many of them break with the naturalization of the social construction of the expected behavior for women [13][14][15]18 . Otherwise, marginalization, sociocultural and state exclusion, as well as exposure to different situations that interfere in the health-disease process, intensify as governments refuse to think about and implement public policies focused on this group of women.…”