title: On the esthetics of pleasures: guidelines for a socio-anthropology of (homo)sexualities.
abstract: The goal of this article is to contribute to the elaboration of a socio-anthropology of the sexualities in an epistemological perspective by setting forward some theoretical guidelines I have been adopting in my present research project. I propose the notion of "culture of sexualities" like a system that focuses on the socio-cultural and historical construction of sexualities in relation with the global culture's internal logic in each given society. It includes biological sex, social sex, gender problematics, sexual identities, sexual roles, sexual orientations, and social stereotypes in its inter-relations and in connection with social and historical changing. I also give attention to the relations between the "sexual" and the "non sexual" sociabilities ("homosocial" or "heterosocial") and to the importance of sexualities' social imaginary in the elaboration of a relativist and constructivist approach.
authors.affiliation: GREH-CEAQ/Université René Descartes-Paris V.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mendès-Leite
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D005783:Gender Identity; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012931:Social Environment