Considerações sobre swing e poliamor a luz do conceito de “círculo encantado” de Gayle Rubin

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the speeches of members of whatsapp groups with themes on polyamory and swing in the light of the anthropologist Gayle Rubin's concept enchanted circle. This concept was developed in his text Thinking about sex: notes for a radical theory of sexuality policies of 1984, which became a landmark of sexuality studies for the social sciences. The enchanted circle is the system by which modern Western societies evaluate sexual acts according to a hierarchical system of values. A few dominant practices are circumscribed by the circle, good sex, and others outside it, bad sex. The rewards of belonging to the center of the circle are from mental health, respectability, legality, social and physical mobility, institutional support to material benefits. The purpose of this paper is to address the relationship between two groups of non-dominant sexuality, located outside the restrictive circle of good sex presented by Rubin. The goal is to understand how the enchanted circle is applied in the relationship between these two groups and in relation of ​​good and bad sex idea.