LIVING SEXUALITY WITH HIV/AIDS. CAN ONE BE HAPPY?

Abstract

The STD always brought, besides the organic symptoms, a strong emotional component. Although today the sexuality is seen with more naturalness and the STD pejorative connotation is not significant as before, it still hard to talk about those infections to the doctor and to patient without been embarrassed, even more to the partner. It is necessary consider that the liberty of the people, when talking about sexuality, is bigger in the discourse than in the acts. It seems to be the psychic component of more importance in the repercussion of sexuality, especially by the sensation of guilty associated to those infections, people show low esteem, judge themselves impure, immoral, and dirty. The damage can occur in any stage of the sexual answer; frequently, however, appears in the stage of desire. Nowadays, it comes to add to those emotional factors the generalized phobia of getting AIDS, one more important element that blocks the sexual performance.