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Erotic practices and edges of sexuality: contributions of recent studies

This paper examines the contribution of recent brazilian anthropological studies regarding the different experiences involved in contemporary erotisms, focusing mostly on the connections between sexual practices, gender norms and sexuality limits (boarder line where co exist norm and transgression, consentment and abuse, pleasure and pain). The review of this specific literature inteds to shed some light upon the most important approaches on the subject, particularly examining how erotisms' pleasures and dangers have been treated related to issues of consentment, agreement, body's erotization and finally the risks those practices involve.

Erotism; Violence; Gender; Sexuality


Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero - Pagu Universidade Estadual de Campinas, PAGU Cidade Universitária "Zeferino Vaz", Rua Cora Coralina, 100, 13083-896, Campinas - São Paulo - Brasil, Tel.: (55 19) 3521 7873, (55 19) 3521 1704 - Campinas - SP - Brazil
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