This article intends to discuss the loving-erotic life development of women of the lower social classes in Aracaju/SE, under the gender perspective. The data were collected from ten biographical reports. The analysis reveals that the loving pattern of the investigated women is drawn by the extreme poverty that follows their life trajectory. Love, therefore, takes the form of the person who satisfies both her hunger and her children´s, even when the relationship with the partner is permeated by infidelity, domestic violence, absence of both desire and sexual satisfaction.
Gender; Love; Lower social classes
