Abstract

SANCHEZ OLVERA, Alma Rosa. Cuerpo y sexualidad, un derecho: avatares para su construcción en la diversidad sexual. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2009, vol.24, n.69, pp.101-122. ISSN 2007-8358.

In Mexico, changes are being spun in the experience and perception of sexuality. The big landmarks Cairo and Beijing conferences brought with them, legitimized the construction of sexuality as a right, at the same time that they promoted thinking about it with scientific arguments, from a gender perspective and in the framework of human rights. This article details the vicissitudes of making sexuality a right; the moral role and sexual abstinence the church and the new right call for; discrimination and homophobia as expressions of social violence against sexual diversity; and the conflicts people experience when publicly assuming non-heterosexual sexual orientations.

Keywords : sexuality; sexual rights; sexual diversity; young university community members.