| 710 Room 520-A | Spanish Presentations Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Time: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM |
Feminine Sexuality: Realities, Experiences and Challengers.
Sarduy Sanchez, Celia *,1, Alfonso Rodriguez, Ada *,2, 1 Centro Nacional de Información Médica, Ciudad de La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba2 Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual, Ciudad de La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
ABSTRACT- A closer look to the feminine sexuality theme from a health paradigm and from the gender perspective, changes definitively the perceptive of this process. Starting on this foundation, we have been able to rebuild a theoretical base, with methodological consequences for the communitarian work, as well as therapeutically, facing the feminine sexual dysfunctions and discomforts. This lecture reveals the factors that we have been able to identify to have an impact in womens everyday life, their representation and personal experience regarding sexuality. We demonstrate that patriarchal culture promotes social representations, opening the way to collective and individual subjectivities, which deprive women from the joy and erotic pleasure of their bodies. Founded on this reality, proven through our research in community groups and in our consultation room for sexual orientation and therapy, our work model incorporates techniques helping the individual subjective reconstruction, as well as the feminine universe. These are qualitative methodological techniques (life stories, work in groups, drawings, corporal manipulation exercises, among others), which have helped not only to achieve a better knowledge of reality per se, but also to find some paths in favor of the relearning process and rectification of feminine sexuality, toward its recovery as an enjoyment. We reveal in our lecture the results found among different populations: women attending consultation room for orientation and therapy; community groups (interpretation of what happens among women groups in different stages of the vital cycle, called together by the sexuality theme); and from the findings and personal experiences identified by professionals participating in our different teaching approaches. ©
Key words: gender, everyday life, social representation