Error 404, infante corrompido: o acesso de crianças e adolescentes à pornografia online
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2024-09-17
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Almeida, Júlio César Florencio de
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This research had several starting points, such as the researcher's personal experiences, who had and maintained contact with online pornography since his childhood, as well as the observation of how society weaves a contradictory and intense relationship with pornographic content. The question of children and adolescents' access to online pornography arose – tensioned in the research in the form of infants, as those who cannot talk about themselves –, not from a perspective that generally takes over the spaces of speech, that seeks problems and pathologizes, but rather from a perspective that tries to look at the experiences and how they are intertwined with the notions of sex, sexuality, development and mainly, childhood and capitalism. From this, the methodological path was traced by meeting with people who accessed online pornography as infants and talking about this experience, telling stories and narrating, in order to think about how these experiences are produced – thoughts inspired by the production of knowledge power in Foucault and Preciado's pharmacopornographic regime. There was no prior intention from the participating public; in fact, the vast majority invited themselves to participate as the research was being discussed in various spaces where the researcher circulated. Seven people in total participated. Since there were no specific cut-off points – except for online pornography, which cuts across an age range of the population that varied between 22 and 29 years old – the people participating were closer to the researcher's socialization cycle, therefore, there were five men and two women, all cisgender. Of the men, one declared himself brown and the rest were white. Of these, two were bisexual, one heterosexual and two homosexuals. The two participating women were also white; one was bisexual and the other heterosexual. The analysis of the narratives culminated in three main topics of discussion, the first being “Pornography: a family business” which considers the inseparable relationship between sexual secrets and family surveillance and the very birth of the modern family, linked to the development of capitalism. The second, “In the beginning was... pleasure?”, considered the different dynamics that the discovery of pleasures causes in conjunction with pornography, further demonstrating its complexity; and finally, “To fap or not to fap, that is the question”, where more problematic scenes and experiences were considered, not in the sense of pathological, but which, mainly in the participants’ experience, provoked a careful look or the experience of illness. Throughout the research, several topics were considered to delve deeper into what constitutes childhood, children, pornography, sexuality and pleasure in order to be able to complexify what we understand by infants’ access to pornography from a perspective that does not seek pathologization and the creation of more moral/sexual panic. We observed that, of the different dynamics, one that establishes it since the birth of the family, anti-masturbation campaigns and the attempt to create one or more pathologies involved with masturbation, is capitalism and the need to extract profit from the pleasure generated by bodies, even if they are children’s.
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Adolescentes , Sexualidade , Pornografia