Velhice & Sexualidade: tramas da diversidade. [Resenha].

Abstract

Entering diversity supposes a decentralization with respect to a logic that reduces the hegemonic and normative as the only modes of narration. Appealing to “other stories” implies recognizing those that are known in historical, geographical and social contexts other than common senses. But they also allow us to examine the successive transformations of the ways in which sexuality and age are thought and acted. Plots that sprout, enhebran and announce the emergence of the “other plots”, to doubt, disorder and rebuild the expected stories. What has given rise to this book, provokes thought, analyzes concepts, and proposes alternative narratives. Taking the sexuality at the time, even in the XXI century, continues to have a subversive and questioning weight. We find ourselves with a multiplicity of discourses and metaphorical forms that produced, in large part of Western culture, resistances and explicit and implicit limitations of great magnitude. Since the denial of eroticism by its association with the ugliness, among the Greeks and Romans; el rechazo cristiano for the lesser possibility of reproduction, or la mirada deserotizada, pathologizada y perversa, tan bourgeois and victoriana. In front of which emerges a report, apparently void of damage, which to a large extent will be integrated by Gerontology, in which sexuality appears as a clear possibility, only limited by the denial of a society incapable of visualizing it. What led to lectures, many times well-founded and many times uncritical, where it was necessary to show that there was sexuality, for scientific reasons, but it also had to show that sexuality had fewer changes than it had, for reasons, certainly more ideological. Destiny that is up to the gerontological reading produced since the middle of the twentieth century, where, to criticize this other account of the old age, tan differentiated and deficitary, I have decided to transform it into something so similar to adulthood, and where, all allusion to a difference , which alluded to this “I came to report”, turned into harm. We are certainly in a historical moment where sexuality in the age becomes an object of permanent demonstration for several reasons: before the incredulous gaze of a society that reads the body of age dissociated from eroticism; because it is the theme that best assimilates the youth to the rest of the ages, it is included as a curious object of surprise and market. In this compilation of texts we find different arguments and in some point in debate, with respect to concepts such as sexuality and age. One of the ways of taking a position is positioning the theme from different starting points. Some will find it from gender, sexual orientation, HIV, pornography, knowledge of traditional harm, gerontology, traditional medicines, or in Drag groups, LGBT spaces or so many other places from where one interrogates, thinks and criticizes the object of the book. Reading its chapters makes it possible to recall and recognize generational knowledge and practices concerning the feminine and the masculine, the heterosexual and the homosexual or the cisgender and the transgender. It allows a panorama of representations that circulate and intertwine in a historical moment and in contexts located in cities, groups or specific medicines. In this way, several versions are presented starting from the ones that are ponen in cuestión the uniformización del viejo and its sexuality produced by certain estudios de la vejez. In order to explore different aspects, each article will also have methodological approaches that allow us to reflect from phenomena of greater magnitude, achieved through bibliographic or press revisions, to the ethnographic or qualitative inquiry that will allow us to know the detailed transit of meanings and senses produced in small groups. The texts discuss the meanings given by their own viejos with respect to their sexuality. What puts in tension a point of much interest for the researcher, what people say is the reflection of common senses or of their bad experiences. But by chance, what is felt is not crossed by the established senses, was the sensible geography of our body not inhabited temporarily by histories of gender, ethnicity or generations? Asimism, at what point can we disregard it, based on an assumption of harmful knowledge? Discussion that can give rise to debates that deepen critical thinking.