title: [The cultural construction of the Brazilian sexuality: nursing implications].
abstract: This paper presents a descriptive study which focuses on cultural construction of sexuality, media influences on human sexuality, and how nurses should consider the sexual education process. The investigation considered texts in the field of humanities and health. It was utilised the analytical construction to categorize the discursives retails. The analysis has been supported by differents references. It was concluded that gender relations are based on categorizations which crosses the social order and it determinates the symbolic domination. The symbolics systems are still unaltered and it centred on the male domination. There are some movements regarding as a uncomun which try to validate a cartography of sexuality which subverts the identity idea historically as known as pathriarchal. The nurse needs contribute to improve the knowledge of the population regarding human sexuality.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB. isxf@oi.com.br
authors.forename: Inacia Sátiro Xavier
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: de França
authors.forename: Rosilene Santos
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Baptista
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D019529:Sexuality