“A flor do amadurecimento”:

Experiências sexuais na infância em narrativas de homens que fazem sexo com homens na Região Metropolitana do Recife-PE

Abstract

The text discusses results about childhood sexual experiences. Analyze survey conducted with 380 men who have sex with men (MSM) and narrative interviews with twenty of the survey respondents. The first sexual experiences occurred in second childhood and had the sense of play. Up to 12 years of age, 46.8% of the respondents reported having had their first kiss on the mouth, 46.3% had performed mutual caresses and 36.3% had performed solitary masturbation. The penetrative practices (oral and anal sex) had lower frequencies, concentrating around 12 years of age. In the narratives, penetrative practices were related to a subjective repositioning, in which children were more aware of the meanings of sexuality in the adult world, felt physically and subjectively ready (they dominated malice) to have sex with other boys, usually older friends. The analysis points to the centrality of gender and age stylizations in the formation of desires and partnerships. It also draws attention to the stigmatizing attacks of the family, neighborhood, church and school, whose effect is expressed in the feeling of confusion and produces a variety of subjective scars, such as depression, ideations and suicide attempts. Situations that call for robust actions to guarantee the sexual rights of children with homosexual and transgender practices.