Love and violence at play: revealing the affective-sexual relations between young people using the gender lens

objective was to analyze using the gender category, the discourse about affective-sexual relationships among teenagers based on the interactions in an online game grounded on the themes of sex, sexuality and violence. This is a case study, a qualitative approach that carried out the analysis of the discursive comments of adolescents produced from interactions with the Papo Reto game. The study subjects were 27 teenagers from a public school in São Paulo-SP. The analysis was based on the gender category and revealed that relationships between teenagers are part of a context of relationships influenced by gender models and norms constituting inequities that are determinants of both violence and its invisibility as a problem. The ambivalence of meanings that violence assumes in intimate relations translates into discourses of overcoming and, at the same time, of reiteration of gender inequities.

本研究以性别范畴为分析框架，针对一款以性、性取向与暴力为主题的在线游戏中的互动内容，开展青少年情感-性关系相关话语的分析。本研究属于案例研究，采用质性研究方法，对玩家在《Papo Reto》游戏中互动产生的青少年话语评论进行分析。研究对象为来自巴西圣保罗州圣保罗市一所公立学校的27名青少年。本次分析以性别范畴为基础，结果显示青少年间的亲密关系处于受性别模式与社会规范影响的关系语境中，而这类性别模式与规范所构建的性别不平等，既是暴力行为的诱因，同时也使得暴力问题难以被公众认知。亲密关系中暴力行为所承载的意义矛盾性，既体现为呼吁克服性别不平等的话语，同时也表现为重申性别不平等的话语。