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A Brazillian perspective on love, sex and relationships
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People battle that one all over, and so do we down here in the land that has given its name to a genital haircut (throughout the...
Not so bad, I dare say. For starters, no one gets severely sexually mutilated by any state, religious, or traditional institutions. The worst thing that happens around here in that regard is that a lot of guys get their foreskin chopped off at birth by doctors, as way to prevent infections I hear. But that doesn't happen to everyone; it hasn't happened to me. Circumcision is pretty gory and spreads the perception that genitals are dirty.
In Brazil, when it comes to the freedom to choose who you are going to engage in love, sex and relationships with, people are for the most part free to do so as they please. There are, however, a few restrictions. The biggest barrier is that of social class. People basically stay within their social class, even for casual sex, definitely for love, let alone anything like marriage.
Of course people are free to share their lives with anyone from a class different than their own, but no one seems particularly interested in doing that. The poor seek relationships amongst themselves, so do the middle class and the rich.
Also, if you choose to engage in love, sex or a relationship with a person of the same gender as you, it may get tricky, especially if you're in the middle class, with a reputation to maintain and social expectations to manage. For the poor, life itself is perennially tricky, tough beyond what are capable of imagining, so that being a homosexual is nothing but another facet of an already hard life. The rich do whatever they will.
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