Pornography and the forbidden fruit

the truth regimes in scientific articles

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i22.55018

Abstract

Faced with the dichotomous role played by pornography in the popular imagination, which transits between immorality and sexual freedom, it was necessary to investigate how current scientific articles use these regimes of truth in the perpetuation of pornography stigmas, as well as to investigate their relationship with cisheteronormativity . The LGBTQIA+ community, the target of the investigations carried out by the 8 articles analyzed, is constantly placed in a position of immorality, which contributes to its abjection in the scientific field. This article intends to focus on the tangle of biopolitical discourses, based on the guidelines of Michel Foucault's discourse analysis. It was concluded that pornography is constantly associated with immorality, illness and criminality. There are numerous attempts to relate pornography consumption with the LGBTQIA+ community through pejorative terms, cisheterocentric arguments, rooted stigmas and discussions that lack theoretical and social depth, which contributes to the perpetuation of the cycle of exclusion of bodies and abject pleasures.

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Yasmin Xavier dos Reis, Federal University of Juiz de Fora

Master's degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, UFJF, Brazil.

Juliana Peruchi, Federal University of Juiz de Fora

PhD in Psychology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, UFSC, Brazil; Federal University of Juiz de Fora.

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2025-09-04

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dos Reis, Y. X. ., & Peruchi, J. . (2025). Pornography and the forbidden fruit: the truth regimes in scientific articles. Revista Periódicus, 1(22), 230–266. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i22.55018

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Vol. 1 No. 22 (2025): Continuous Article Publishing

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