Pedagogia dos prazeres: apreendendo formas de compreender e modos de estar em PrEP no Brasil

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes aspects of the teaching and learning processes of men who have sex and/or homoaffective/homoerotic relationships with other men (MSM) based on their prevention practices and the use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). A public policy started in 2017, PrEP consists of taking a pill daily that allows the body to be prepared to face a possible contact with HIV. The research aims to compare different ways of being and understanding the HIV prevention method, based on an ethnographic fieldwork with PrEP users on social networks - Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Grindr - and institutional campaigns and audiovisual materials promoting and encouraging the prevention method. Thus, in the search for a multiplicity of narratives, different spaces, institutions, and subjects come into play and assist in uncovering the moral conflicts surrounding the use of PrEP. Through an approach that dialogues with Anthropology, Health, and Education, it is possible to construct a more complex perspective on the sociocultural phenomena involving sex, pleasure, and sexual health practices.