ESTRUTURAÇÃO E CONSOLIDAÇÃO DO MERCADO SEXUAL HOMOERÓTICO SUL-AMERICANO A PARTIR DAS EXPERIÊNCIAS DE RECIFE/BR E BUENOS AIRES/AR

Abstract

This article analyzes the meanings attributed to work by sex workers in the context of the homoerotic sex market. A sex worker is a person who develops formal or autonomous work activities in commercial establishments aimed at the entertainment and/or sexual pleasure of the homosexual audience. In this context, for sex workers and as well as for workers who handle sex-related administrative and bureaucratic activities money seems to reveal itself as the main motivational factor, although not the only one, for their voluntary insertion in such a market. Thus, we sought to better understand the subjectivation strategies that enable their insertions and permanence. Thus, we initially present reflections on the dynamics, organization and structuring of the homoerotic sex market, which in South America seems to establish itself as a new field of formal and legal work, based on the experiences of Recife (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentine). The study is an exploratory, ethnographic, descriptive and interpretative, non-experimental and qualitative study. Data were collected between 2013 and 2016, through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, with 18 Brazilians and 08 Argentines who worked in the homoerotic sex market in both cities. In results analysis the double hermeneutics model was used, making it possible to recognize the meaning that the subjects themselves build from their actions. The reflexive critical movement based on the two markets showed that limiting the sex market to prostitutions makes it impossible to carry out broader analyzes of the performance of the various actors who survive from and/or from the commodification of sex.

Keywords: Sex market; sex worker; homosexuality; subjective sense; self.