SEXUALITY AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN BRAZIL: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW OF THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

The COVID-19 pandemic is a historic milestone with implications for health, education, economics and world politics, which even affected sexuality, affective and sexual relationships of the contemporary subject. This work sought to understand sexuality in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, especi...

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Autores: Zerbinati, João Paulo, Bruns, Maria Alves de Toledo, Mandruzato, Gretta Kerr
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos em Sexualidade Humana (SBRASH)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Sexualidade Humana (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.rbsh.org.br:article/1093
Acceso en línea:https://www.rbsh.org.br/revista_sbrash/article/view/1093
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sexualidade
COVID-19
Revisão Integrativa
Sexuality
Integrative Review
Sexualidad
Revisión integradora
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Sumario:The COVID-19 pandemic is a historic milestone with implications for health, education, economics and world politics, which even affected sexuality, affective and sexual relationships of the contemporary subject. This work sought to understand sexuality in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Brazil. This is an Integrative Review of the Scientific Literature, with systematic search, inclusion, exclusion and analysis criteria in two large scientific databases, namely, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and the Latin American and Caribbean Information Center on Health Sciences (BIREME). The 16 works selected for this research were categorized into main thematic axes: (1) Sexual health; (2) Sex education; (3) Affective, sexual and social relationships in distance and virtuality; (4) Sexual violence. From the data collected, it was possible to understand that the social, affective and sexual distancing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic increased difficulties in affective and sexual relationships both due to the absence of physical contact with other people and the presence of stressors such as loss of work, abrupt decrease in income, intense and abusive family closeness, social vulnerability and difficulty in accessing comprehensive health, which includes sexual and emotional health.