As transformações das relações amoroso-sexuais nos espaços de divertimento em Viçosa - AL

Abstract

The eroticism and sexuality of individuals has been regulated by a diverse social standards that over the years were becoming more flexible, allowing subjects to experience emotions and pleasures previously denied or prohibited. Therefore, the erotic languages and sexual approximation between men and women have passed through significant changes in Viçosa - AL, accompanied by transformations in fun spaces existing in the city. This dissertation intends to understand the directions that the process of transformation the relations of flirting took from the end of the decade of 1930. In other words, the main objective of this work was to analyze the fun spaces and types of courtship established in Viçosa over the years. The methodology used consisted in varieties printed newspaper examination of that circulated in Viçosa in the 1930s and 1940s, and of chronicles written by viçosenses, as well as interviews with individuals from different generations and the observation of forró shows, bars and churrasquinhos. To understand the erotic past of Vicosense, the concept of "good society", thought by Norbert Elias and Cas Wouters, that allows to analyze how the upper class of Viçosa regulated the sexuality of its members, controlling, this way, where and who the young people should flirt, being one of one of the mechanisms used to preventing a stranger undesired aggregation to his group, which caused a social and psychological distancing among individuals of different generations, genders and social classes. However, by the 1970s the Vicosenses began to experience an expansion and redefinition of fun, which allowed a transformation in the sexuality and courtship, because a series of sexual excitations and gratifications began to be experienced, bringing the different social groups. Currently the forró shows are one of the spaces where is possible to observe the existence of a new repertoire of erotic and sexual codes through lyrics songs - intensely sexualized -, of dances and exchanges of caresses, presenting a more informal type of behavior compared to the previous periods, in which the intimate contact in public spaces was based on dynamics of more rigid self-control.