Narrativas de experiências de impotência sexual entre jovens na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This work is the result of ethnographic research around narratives of experiences, perceptions of young people about sexual impotence, based on their everyday experiences, as well as describing the meanings attributed to treatments prescribed for this condition. To carry out this work, I chose to research ethnographic study that consists of carrying out semi-structural interviews and informal conversations with research participants. Our data allowed us to understand that in the context in which these young people tend to establish norms of behavior regarding issues of “masculinity”, they propose that they be competent, have an active sexual life, because this represents “success in life”. In this way, the sexual failure of these young people and their sexual impotence are totally contradictory to the role of masculine, this “failure” being a reason for description, which conditions the constitution of their identities. The data collected was analyzed in light of the theory of social constructivism. Through From this theory we realize that the reality experienced by these young people is the result of a social construction, where young people have their notions and meanings about impotence sexual. Young people build experiences and trajectories that allow them to overcome these existing difficulties in sexual and social life. They look to friends for advice and family members for the treatment of sexual impotence. Going to hospitals and using plants and roots to treat and prevent sexual impotence are followed by these young people, and some of them explain that they have already had treatment and eliminated the barrier to sexual impotence. This allows us to understand that young people have their own interpretations and meanings associated with sexual impotence and they have experiences that will make it possible to overcome and overcome this situation.