242.3 Eyes wide shut: Sexual practices, subjectivities and conjugalities couples practicing swing

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 11:25 AM
Faculty of Economics, TBA
Edson VASCONCELOS , UFPB, Joao Pessoa, Brazil
Adriano de LEON , UFPB, Brazil
This research investigates the sexual practices, the processes of subjectivation and the conjugalities through the practice of swing in the municipality of João Pessoa, city in State of Paraíba – Brazil. Swing is the practice of sexual relations between married couples, where there is exchange of partners among other types of erotic performances conferred by the couple. Since the exchange of partners, the relationship between persons of the same sex, the relationship with more than one man or, with more than a woman. How is the initiation of couples in the swinger and how to confront the deviant condition that seem to occupy in society? How the body interferes in the establishment of relations with other subjects? What kind of contribution their marital relationships can make to the reflection on the new and old models of conjugalidade? Therefore, from the study on the practice of couples exchange, deals with the changes and stays in benchmarks conjugality present in the culture contemporary. Supporters of a practice allegedly considered liberal, behavior and speech of such couples allows the reflection on the construction of the men and women in Brazilian society. In times where classifications as a family, the roles of father and mother and the notion of sexuality defy the boundaries of genre, it is inevitable to ask what is be man and woman within a relationship, in a world which says that you can do anything, but is not obliged to anything.