1. SEXUALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF LOCAL CULTURE
1.1. Information could easily be distorted
1.2. Argument: many disturbing elements that structure everyday sexuality in places like Felicidade Eterna
1.2.1. No easy confrontation because the discourse that would be necessary to battle such problems are ...
1.2.1.1. Not well developed
1.2.1.2. Not disseminated beyond the reach of the middle/upper classes
1.2.1.3. Simply taboo
1.3. "This carnivalization of desire is largely, although not entirely, a masculinist vision of desire and transgression. As a result, counterdiscourses to this particular vision are difficult to develop."
2. DISCOURSES OF SEX-POSITIVENESS
2.1. Sexuality is important to Carioca identity.
2.2. "According to some contemporary anthropological interpretations of brasilidade, or Brazilianness, sexuality is central:'While sexual life in North America or Europe has been treated as an essentially individual phenomenon, in Brazil it has also emerged as a central issue at a social or cultural level, and has been taken, for better or worse, as a kind of key to the peculiar nature of Brazilian reality." (Parker 1991:28)
2.3. Sexual joking and teasing: friendly aspect of social relations
2.3.1. Acts as a verbal conformation of centrality of sexuality in social life
3. THE CARNIVALIZATION OF DESIRE
3.1. Exploration of humor in the form of sexual teasing or sexual joking that reveals a PARTIAL truth
3.1.1. Sexual permissiveness and sexual positiveness are social facts that describe social relations in Rio
3.1.2. Brazil has a self-promoting image about its erotic "tropical paradise"
3.1.2.1. Accurate image
3.1.3. In Brazil there is a sense of body liberation expressed through: body language, dress, flirtation, exuberant dance
3.2. Carioca culture: Immediately recognizable because of clothing, styles that hug the body,
3.3. Public Flirtation, in Rio, is a public/ elaborate/ beloved game that is appreciating and complimentary to woman's bodies.
3.3.1. Being ignored of sexuality is "a fate worse than death"
3.3.2. Brazilian women of all classes enjoy being looked at, complimented, and considered sexually desirable
3.4. Male homosexuality in Brazil: upper-class model & lower-class model
3.4.1. Upper-class model of "import" from Western Europe and North America
3.4.1.1. The connection of one's sexual and social identity with one's sexual object choice
3.4.2. Lower-class model recognizes categories and is active and passive partners who divide sexual/social gender roles
3.4.2.1. homens : men
3.4.2.1.1. active penetrating men who maintain masculine identity no matter what their sexual object (male/female)
3.4.2.2. bichas: meaning worm, derogatory term for effeminate men (means similar to faggot in English)
3.4.2.2.1. passive, receiving who represent effeminate men and their masculine identity is compromised by social/ sexual role
3.5. Large amount of work done on sexuality in Brazil
3.5.1. Less work sited of work done by feminists
4. ETHNOGRAPHY: LOCAL SEXUAL CULTURE IN FELICIDADE ETERNA
4.1. Sexual/Eating Metaphors, Subversion, and Creative Resistance
4.1.1. The man who receives anal sex in a homosexual relationship is considered , bicha or vido, and loses status
4.1.2. Eating Metaphors
4.1.2.1. Metaphors about food and eating were used to express ideas about sexuality
4.1.2.1.1. also include economic and sexual aspects of normative gender relations that are being intertwined.
4.1.2.2. Comer: "to eat" and also to consume another person sexually
4.1.2.2.1. Women are submissive and they "dar" or give
4.1.2.2.2. You are defined : if you eat or are eaten
4.1.2.3. Women:
4.1.2.3.1. Make men grow horns
4.1.2.3.2. Actively seek boyfriends with resources and demands for food
4.1.2.3.3. Break relationships with men who consume too much and produce too little
4.1.2.3.4. Share this information with each other
5. FROM BOYS TO MEN: NORMATIVE MASCULINIZATION AND HETEROSEXUALITY
5.1. "good sex" seen as the one abundant good that is inexhaustable and available - free
5.2. Working class Cariocas it is unhealthy for men to go too long without sex (may provoke insanity)
5.2.1. There is a desire to provide boys with sexual experience so that thew have knowledge and can fulfill their sexually active role
5.2.1.1. When becoming a boy into a man one shall be encouraged and expected to become seducers
5.3. Women shared stories of loosing virginity: traumatic loss of childhood innocence and is a female right to passage into a normative heterosexual relationship
5.4. Impossible to grow up in Felicidade Eterna without knowing about sex but it is possible to not know about HIV and birth control
6. SACANAGEM, TRANSGRESSION, AND FEMALE BOUNDARY SETTING
6.1. Sacanagem is an important organizing concept in the realm of Brazilian sexuality
6.1.1. Parker, "notions of aggression and hostility, play and amusement, sexual excitement and erotic practice in a single symbolic complex."
6.1.2. Can be good or bad
6.1.2.1. Describe an act of pleasure
6.1.2.2. Describe as an act that hurts and/or humiliates another
6.1.3. Used by women to explain anal sex
6.1.3.1. Some thought it was fun and others didn't
6.1.3.2. Boys are sometimes initiated into anal eroticism with other boys through games such as fazendo meia or troca-troca
6.1.3.2.1. Games are usually initiated by older/stronger men claiming masculine sexual identities for themselves in the process of violating and symbolically feminizing another