Abstract
This article aims to discuss the links and dissonances amongst mononormativity, intimacy and citizenship, throughout a necessary dialogue between privacy and publicization of the private life. The research problem is translated into the following question: to what extent mononormativity, while a normative model of monogamy, interferes in the liberty to build intimate relationships and hinders the broad exercise of rights originated from these choices in the public sphere? Starting from an inductive methodological approach based on bibliographical research, this study purposes to cause reflections about the restraint of the autonomy of the will in relation to dissonant conjugalities of the monogamous paradigm in the public sphere, which excludes the rights of citizenship, in its most extended conception to the so-called “sexual citizenship”, reinforcing the hypothesis that the state’s position regarding the recognition and promotion of diversity is still ineffective for a democratic and pluralistic society.
Mononormativity; monogamy; intimacy; State; sexual citizenship
