The article traces the studies on gender and sexuality carried out in Brazil, presenting some points of similarity and convergence, such as tensions among affectivity, sexuality, reproduction and gender, involving, among others, the binomials pleasure / obligation, hierarchy / complementarity, autonomy / dependence, equality / inequality etc. It analyses the explanatory models that approach the sexuality of the Brazilian people in the high, medium and lower social strata, as well as the models that include them in one "erotic culture", considered characteristic of the country.
Anthropology of sexuality; reproduction; gender; individualism; erotism