MEDIA SEXUALITIES IN LATIN AMERICA: EVERY BODY IS POLITICAL

Abstract

In this article we explore various questions related to the construction of media sexualities, mapping the ways in which the mass media and information and communication technologies form, shape, create, re-create and reproduce sexualities today, understanding that no sexualization is out of politics and regulations. We deepen on who are sexual beings in the mass media, who have the right to visualize their sexuality and if there are differences in the sexualization of women and men, heterosexual and homosexual, white and black people. Likewise, we delve into the analysis of self-construction as sexual and sexual being through social networks, reality shows and other types of current platforms, which destabilize the boundaries between the public and the private by changing the visibility regimes of self and others.  Based on the content analysis of the media messages, we seek to understand and interpret the dominant sexualities and to reflect on the marginalized sexual bodies of the media. Likewise, from the conceptual framework and a systematization of current legislation in the region and in the world, we propose ways to escape from the new forms of production and reproduction of inequality.