Perfiles de la sexualidad : a propósito de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en Colombia
This article is a descriptive exercise as well as a substantive and methodological critique of the sexual behavior profile of Colombians in general as it is represented by two survey variables considered by specialits to be of great importance: age at firts intercourse (adulthood), and number of sex...
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| description | This article is a descriptive exercise as well as a substantive and methodological critique of the sexual behavior profile of Colombians in general as it is represented by two survey variables considered by specialits to be of great importance: age at firts intercourse (adulthood), and number of sexual partners during the year prior to the survey. A systematic comparison between Colombian behavior and behaviors in two contemporary surveys conducted in France and the United States reveals for the Colombian case a strong contrast between men and women (dimorphism) where men are more precocious and prefer multiple sexual partners, and women are less so. This finding is used as an excuse to put forward a series of considerations about the past reticence, and the current interest of sociology in the topics of sexuality, eroticism and love; the methodological difficulties of survey-based studies, and possible alternatives for clarifying questions posed by such dimorphism in Colombia. It is conclude that the survey-based studies need to be enriched with other ethnographic strategies (some of them indirect), in order to refine common hypothesis such as patriarchal domination. Mention is made of the necessary complicity by women for male domination to exist; the potential of subcultural and subregional studies within the historical structure of socioracial inequality is reviewed, and the apparently close relation between sexuality and violence is discussed. In the last part of the article, it is suggested that irl the case of Colombia, known throughout the world as a violent country, we could resort to the alternative of delving more deeply into "how men and women love one another", along the lines of the saying "tell me how you love and I'll tell you who you are", for the purpose of taking a rest from the scores of articles that ask "how do they kill one another?” |
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| spelling | oai:oai.estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx:article-9952024-07-05T00:39:12Z Sexuality Profiles Based on Differences between Men and Women in Colombia Perfiles de la sexualidad : a propósito de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en Colombia Sevilla Casas, Elías sexualidad salud reproductiva Colombia This article is a descriptive exercise as well as a substantive and methodological critique of the sexual behavior profile of Colombians in general as it is represented by two survey variables considered by specialits to be of great importance: age at firts intercourse (adulthood), and number of sexual partners during the year prior to the survey. A systematic comparison between Colombian behavior and behaviors in two contemporary surveys conducted in France and the United States reveals for the Colombian case a strong contrast between men and women (dimorphism) where men are more precocious and prefer multiple sexual partners, and women are less so. This finding is used as an excuse to put forward a series of considerations about the past reticence, and the current interest of sociology in the topics of sexuality, eroticism and love; the methodological difficulties of survey-based studies, and possible alternatives for clarifying questions posed by such dimorphism in Colombia. It is conclude that the survey-based studies need to be enriched with other ethnographic strategies (some of them indirect), in order to refine common hypothesis such as patriarchal domination. Mention is made of the necessary complicity by women for male domination to exist; the potential of subcultural and subregional studies within the historical structure of socioracial inequality is reviewed, and the apparently close relation between sexuality and violence is discussed. In the last part of the article, it is suggested that irl the case of Colombia, known throughout the world as a violent country, we could resort to the alternative of delving more deeply into "how men and women love one another", along the lines of the saying "tell me how you love and I'll tell you who you are", for the purpose of taking a rest from the scores of articles that ask "how do they kill one another?” Se hace un ejercicio de descripción y de crítica sustantiva y metodológica del perfil de la conducta sexual de los colombianos como conjunto nacional, tal como aparece representada por dos variables de encuesta consideradas clave por los especialistas: la edad al inicio de la vida sexual interactiva (adulta), y el número de parejas sexuales habidas en el año anterior a la entrevista. La comparación sistemática de esta conducta se hace con la hallada por dos encuestas contemporáneas realizadas en Francia y Estados Unidos. Se encuentra en el caso colombiano un marcado contraste entre hombres y mujeres (dimorfismo) que hace aparecer a los primeros como los más precoces y de preferencia multipareja y a las segundas como las menos dentro de todo el conjunto comparado. Este hallazgo se toma como pretexto para hacer una serie de consideraciones sobre la pasada reticencia y actual creciente interés de la sociología sobre el tema de la sexualidad, el erotismo y el amor; sobre las dificultades metodológicas de este tipo de estudios por encuesta; y sobre posibles alternativas para despejar interrogantes que plantea para Colombia el dimorfismo descrito. Se construye que los estudios por encuesta necesitan ser complementados por otras estrategias etnográficas, algunas indirectas, que permitan refinar hipótesis comunes como las de la dominación patriarcalista. Se alude a la necesaria complicidad, al menos por procuración, de las mujeres para que haya dominación masculina; se revisa la potencialidad de los estudios subculturales y subregionales planteados dentro de la estructuración histórica de desbalance sociorracial; y se hace mención de la aparentemente estrecha relación entre sexualidad y violencia. Se termina con la sugerencia de que en el caso de Colombia, conocido internacionalmente como país violento, podríamos acudir a la alternativa de estudiar con más cuidado “cómo se aman” los hombres y mujeres, adaptando para el caso un viejo adagio “dime cómo amas y te diré quién eres”, a fin de descansar de la mucha tinta que ha corrido sobre la pregunta “cómo se matan”. El Colegio de México A.C. 1997-01-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Research Article Artículo de investigación evaluado por pares application/pdf https://estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx/index.php/edu/article/view/995 10.24201/edu.v12i1.995 Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos; Vol. 12 No. 1 (1997): 34-35, January-August; 261-306 Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos; Vol. 12 Núm. 1 (1997): 34-35, enero-agosto; 261-306 2448-6515 0186-7210 spa https://estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx/index.php/edu/article/view/995/988 Derechos de autor 1997 Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
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| title | Perfiles de la sexualidad : a propósito de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en Colombia |
| title_alt | Sexuality Profiles Based on Differences between Men and Women in Colombia |
| title_full | Perfiles de la sexualidad : a propósito de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en Colombia |
| title_fullStr | Perfiles de la sexualidad : a propósito de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en Colombia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perfiles de la sexualidad : a propósito de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en Colombia |
| title_short | Perfiles de la sexualidad : a propósito de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en Colombia |
| title_sort | perfiles de la sexualidad a proposito de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en colombia |
| topic | sexualidad salud reproductiva Colombia |
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