Abstract
This paper develops the analysis of two Brazilian cases of sexual health policy. The case of syphilis in its relationship with prostitution and the case of AIDS / HIV in its relation to homosexuality. The cases was investigated in the basis of Foucault’s biopower and the Roberto Esposito’s Paradigm of Immunity, in order to problematize, initially, not only the pertinence between State policies in relation to such references, but also problematize that a better understanding of these policies are offered by the analytical arsenal of these authors. In a second moment, we performed an analysis of sex as motor, object and locus of politics, operating as a criterion of the processes of excluded subjectivation of the prostitute and the homosexual. Also investigated the government of life guided by hierarchical valorization criteria and the biopolitical contours of the relationship between life and death (of those who must live and of those who can die). The intention of this paper is to locate the cases of sexual health policies, such as practices of subjectivation, government of the life and formulation of hierarchy between deviant and normal, which perform certain groups as precarious and even object of extermination.
Keywords:
Biopower; Paradigm of Immunity; Sex