Trabalho, lazer e sensualidade numa oficina de mecânica automóvel em Kassi-Kassi, Matola

Abstract

This study explores moments of interaction between mechanics and their customers and attendants of the auto repair shop. The study shows how in workshops, customers not only repair their cars but also look for leisure time, regular or occasional sexual partners. The study also illustrates as the workshop and its surroundings are frequented by women looking for stable or momentary relationships with people who live a "good life". O The study was based on data collection at the mechanic repair shop. automobiles in Kassi-Kassi, Matola where I applied myself to describe the workshop and its surroundings in the mornings, afternoons and at dusk, the behavior of male customers of the of the workshop, of the female customers of the workshop, of the female customers who are not workshop. On the other hand, I conducted conversations and semi-structured interviews to understand why people prefer to attend the workshop during the day for their leisure and sexual activities. The study is guided by a line of thought that reflects that machine shops are targeted by people as places of leisure associated sexual activities only in the evening in the absence of the employees of the themselves, as a way to find the same people with the same behavior and sexual preferences for different men and women. The field data allowed notice that the workshops are attended as leisure spaces associated with the practices sexual activities by clients and women who are not clients of the workshop in the hours normal working hours where they look for sexual partners, men with a “life stable ”for life and customers to repair their cars and find sexual partners without compromising their families, starting these practices in the mornings with little affluence in the afternoons with constancy spreading until dusk. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)