SOCIAL GENDER IDENTITY AND EROTIC-SEXUAL GENDER IDENTITY

THE BODY THAT INTERACTS

Abstract

Currently, there are basically three most common terms used to describe areas of human sexuality that give rise to others: gender identity, sexual orientation and biological sex. The purpose of this article is that gender identity can be further divided into two distinct identities: social (gender) identity and erotic-sexual (gender) identity. Social gender identity, as the name says, is linked to social relations and it is related, for example, to the labor, political and family relationship, and may include the loving relationship, and, in general, it’s related with the expression of gender that is showed, composing so the performativity of gender. The erotic-sexual (gender) identity would have to do with the identity of the individual during the sexual act, in a specific, usually private relationship, so that this identity may be fixed or change depending on the person’s partner or moment of life. Being possible flexible – as the social identity can also be –, the erotic-sexual identity can be expressed, for example, through erogenous zones that vary according to the relationship that emerges in the encounter with the other and mannerisms, can be expressed itself through accoutrements and accessories that help this identification to manifest itself, as lingeries and dildos, which composes the erotic-sexual performativity. Some approaches would reduce this erotic-sexual identification to a fetish rather than an identity, to which I propose then that this classification of fetish will only make sense if we also consider the gender identity as a fetish (from the Portuguese “spell”, from the Latin “fictitious”).