title: The sexual erotic market as an analytical framework for understanding erotic-affective exchanges in interracial sexually intimate and affective relationships.
abstract: This paper examines the way in which erotic-affective exchanges in interracial relationships have been analysed in Latin America. It considers how race, gender and class operate within a market of values such that erotic, affective and economic status are shaped by racial, gender and class hierarchies. In this paper I analyse historical and social arrangements that embody the region's political economy of race and sex. Such a perspective allows me to address the simultaneous co-existence of socio-racial exclusion and inclusion and the repressive and productive effects of power, attraction and anxiety as aspects of lived experiences in relation to sexuality. From there, I outline an analytical framework that references an erotic or pleasure-based market in which capital and other resources are exchanged from a structural perspective stressing relationship alliances. I conclude by identifying the scope and limits of such an approach.
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Colombia , Bogota , Colombia.
authors.forename: Mara Viveros
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Vigoya
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004882:Erotica; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007843:Latin America; D008297:Male; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping
keywords: Latin America; interracial sex; intersectionality; markets; sexual eroticism