“Bolo é melhor que sexo!”: uma revisão de literatura sobre assexualidade

Abstract

Asexuality is a topic that has become popular in the last decades, in international scientific literature, and refers to a sexual orientation characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This article is a literature review carried out in six databases by searching the descriptor “asexuality”. The objective of this review was to identify and analyze, in scientific literature, studies written in Portuguese, which focused on asexuality, with the aim of discovering how the topic has been described in the last twenty years and what have been the main theories used. 48 works were found, but only nine were considered for analysis according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. All publications disclosed the history of asexuality, citing important researchers and authors, demonstrating that this has been a topic of debate for many decades. The existence of several theoretical lines and concepts about the topic was also observed, especially the essentialist, cultural, social and political lines. Within this logic it is possible to observe different narratives about asexuality, which depending on the use of the different discourses have the power to naturalize or not, pathologize or not some phenomena. At the end, it presents some experiences lived by the asexual community, which are also a reflection of the discourses produced.