Abstract

GUEDES, Dilcio Dantas. Revisão histórica e psicossocial das ideologias sexuais e suas expressões. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.2, pp. 447-493. ISSN 1518-6148.

This essay is about sexual interaction and fondness between individuals in different Western and Eastern civilizations from Antiquity to Contemporaneity. It has aimed to describe and articulate some elements which would describe the ways interaction, in terms of affection, and the ways which sexuality are displayed and expressed among people throughout different historical times. Also, this essay intended to underline the expression of these sexual and interactional ways according to cultural, societal and political influences upon the subjectivity of the contemporary individuals. For this purpose, this essay describes how people used to build bonds, how they understood and practiced the marriage and divorce; how they understood their sexual roles and practices during Ancient, Middle and Modern Era and how they understand all these practices in the Contemporary Era. The review of the literature suggests that models of romantic love and its expression were constituted from different socio-political and cultural elements. The sexuality, in this perspective, is also constituted by different ideological mechanisms from each historical period. Far from suggesting definitive conclusions, this essay pointed out some elements which would offer major understanding about romantic and sexual bonds independently of the sexual orientation on historical, anthropological, social and psychological regards.

Keywords : Affection; Sexuality; History; Ideology; Subjectivity.

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