The experience of sexuality of men with acqyired medular lesion / A vivência da sexualidade de homens com lesão medular adquirida

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

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ABSTRACT Medullar lesion causes tragic consequences to a persons life. This lesion causes paraplegia (paralysis of the lower part of the trunk) or tetraplegia (paralysis of the four limbs), in addition to significant alterations in the motor and sensitive functions, because the medulla is a regulating center that controls important functions, within which the sexual activities. Sexuality was chosen as the central theme of this study, because it constitutes a relevant aspect of the losses suffered by men with acquired medullar lesion. Such losses are verified empirically in the assistance given by the rehabilitation team, when the patient brings expectancies and anxieties in relation to his personal and marital problems. What is this, the sexuality of men with acquired medullar lesion? It is a research based on the phenomenological qualitative methodology anchored on the perspective of humanist existential psychology and on Martin Bubers ontology of dialogue philosophy. Ten married and unmarried males with acquired medullar lesion, at the age range of 24 to 50 years, who receive assistance in a physiotherapic clinic in the city of Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, participated in the research with the objective of offering data to characterize the profile of each collaborator, as well as to take part in a recorded interview, under the condition of secrecy in their identification. Such interview was mediated by the request: Talk about your sexuality along your life and, especially, after the occurrence of your medullar lesion. Their statements were submitted to the moments of analysis of phenomenological reduction, which are composed of: a global reading of all of them; a rereading of each one;an aprehension of the units of meanings; a grouping into categories; convergences and divergences of the meanings and a comprehensive analysis of the following five categories: 1st) The experience of sexuality before the occurrence of the medullar lesion; 2nd) The perception of having an acquired medullar lesion; 3rd) The relationship with his mate after the occurrence of the acquired medullar lesion; 4th) The experience of sexuality after his body acquired the medullar lesion; 5th) The male individual with acquired medullar lesion and his life projects. The interpretation of the statements reveals desolation, loneliness, indignation, resentment for the disruption of their professional, familiar and personal lives, brought about by the lesion. This reality places them in a way of being identified by the Buberian ontology as superficial and impersonal. Their rehabilitation is pointed out as a possibility of integration for a professional, familiar and personal life project.

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phenomenology fenomenologia sexualidade lesão medular adquirida sexuality acquired medullar lesion

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