Prostituição e subversão: notas para repensar o desvio e as sexualidades desviantes.

Abstract

The analysis of social deviance and stigma effects, is constituted as an important theoretical tool to understand contemporary social dynamics, especially with regard to the ways in which power is mobilized to attest to normality of the people and report your abnormality. In general, the argument is that there is in all the people labeled as abnormal, an intrinsic nature that motivates them to commit actions that distort the rules and codes involved in social stability. This argument is even stronger when it comes to sexuality of the population. Since the late eighteenth century, with the emergence of biopolitics and its standardization mechanisms, analysis of sexual behavior of individuals in reference to the speeches of Scientia sexualis and his standards established as legitimate, it became the main mechanism responsible for ensuring social intelligibility and political societies. With reference to this rigid framework, this research sought to provide practical the theoretical basis for the social deviance and deviant sexualities were rethought and interpreted for analytics power of Foucault. First, the theoretical analysis showed the weaknesses and gaps involved in the concept of deviation, as well as contingency and precariousness of hegemonic sexual matrix, which defend the body as a receptacle of the moral and universal truths. Soon after, empirical research conducted with prostitutes, reaffirmed the critical initiated in the theoretical analysis and showed the arbitrariness of any system that, through a sexuality model supported by an essentialist paradigm, try to rank, with good or bad, the sexual behaviors and ways to seek pleasure