Consumo de objetos eróticos por mulheres: processos e contextos em mudança

Abstract

The attempt in this paper is to analyze the content of the relations involved with the consumption and use of erotic objects by women, in the context of the erotic market and its selling practices. This content is a form of engagement that holds its subjectivity and intimacy, preserving its particularities in the construction of itselfreferring the living experiences and their sexual diversities. The paper gathers its data from inquiring the possible decolonization in the construction and in women experience, from their sexualities and from the way in which they interact with the objects. Unlike the repressive past focused on family and on reproduction, in our times sexuality involves the market discourse, the right to pleasure and an agency of oneself, in a way that there is a knowledge production of new significations and of decolonization processes in the field ofsexuality. The analysis is grounded on participant observations in sex shops and in sensual boutiques, field journals and interviews with 10 women from Curitiba, Parana.