``Sexual Exploitation{''} as a Logic, and Its Effects of Power in Contemporary Brazil

Autor(es)

Nieto Olivar, Jose Miguel ^[1] ; Farias, Natalia ^[2]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Sch Publ Hlth, BR-01246904 Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Sch Nursing, BR-05403000 Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: SOCIAL SCIENCES-BASEL; v. 10, n. 2 FEB 2021.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

The present article analyzes the category of ``sexual exploitation{''} based upon the practices that are generally pointed to as part of this category, paying particular attention to its implications and effects on the lives of adolescents and upon state, social movement, and academic abilities to understand the social relationships framed by this category. Our analysis is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2010 and 2015 among state agents and youth in the sex markets of two Brazilian cities in the Amazon border region. Our empirical data are connected to national and international literature, institutional documents, and our participation in educational activities regarding ``sexual exploitation{''}. Our work indicates that ``sexual exploitation{''} has been institutionally constructed as a poorly defined device that mobilizes conservative moralities regarding youth, sexuality, money, mobility, and gender experimentation. We also find that the youth involved in sex markets do not recognize the legitimacy of the policies carried out in the name of ``combatting anti-sexual exploitation{''}. We conclude that the performative production of ``sexual exploitation{''} as a logic of governmentality feeds back into an institutional grammar of distancing, perplexity, immobility, and excuses. This grammar does not contemplate-let alone care about-the gender experiences, sexualities, economic lives and affective troubles of the youth it targets for surveillance and tutelage. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 13/26826-2 - Gênero em territórios de fronteira e transfronteiriços na Amazônia Brasileira
• Beneficiário: José Miguel Nieto Olivar
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Jovens Pesquisadores
• Processo FAPESP: 10/50077-1 - Mercados do sexo em territórios transfronteiriços: gênero e circulações na fronteira Brasil-Colômbia
• Beneficiário: José Miguel Nieto Olivar
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 19/01714-3 - Através do limite: diferenciação, relação e práticas de cuidado em contextos críticos na fronteira amazônica: ênfase em sexualidade, gênero, ciclos de vida e etnia
• Beneficiário: José Miguel Nieto Olivar
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular