TRABALHO SEXUAL DE HOMENS EM ESPAÇOS DE RELACIONAMENTO ON-LINE NA CIDADE DE CAMPO GRANDE-MS

Abstract

The male sex work market in Brazil, despite being incipient, presents countless investigative possibilities regarding studies on gender, sexuality, the online universe and anthropology. From this perspective, this dissertation aimed to understand the sexual work of men in online dating spaces in the city of Campo Grande (MS). From a methodological point of view, qualitative research with an ethnographic bias was developed, based on online observations, informal conversations, semi-structured interviews and bibliographical reflections. Thus, understanding the dynamics, movements, relationships and practices that involve men's sexual work based on smartphone applications and advertising websites that arrange or offer sexual services was constituted as a field of analysis. Among the analyzes produced is reflection on the strategies adopted by interlocutors to produce profiles and “conquer” potential clients when offering sexual services sold in these online spaces; the main regimes of visibility, traffic, circulation, mobility and desires adopted; the representation of the body as an objectification of symbols and values in the sex market in online spaces; and how these practices produce, reproduce and tension certain social markers. Furthermore, it is worth highlighting that sex work is perceived by interlocutors as work, even though it is seen as marginal and stigmatized in the social environment.

Keywords: sex work; sexual economies; sexuality and gender.