Entre la fe y el placer: discursos e imaginarios de mujeres católicas sobre su sexualidad

Abstract

In the hard process of continue research advances in the area of sexuality and religion, the present study has set as the main object describing and exposing the discourses of Cuenca’s catholic women related with their sexuality and enjoyment of their sexual pleasure. This project tries to identifying the female model and role that was learned and it has followed socially and culturally from the Catholic perspective and how the women’s faith and their beliefs have influenced the learning correlated to sexuality. According to that, a qualitative approach and narrative kind of research was carried out in which 10 Catholic women participated in in-depth interviews, resulting in various criteria that allowed demonstrating all the influence of Catholic morality in the experience of sexual pleasure, having as reference sin and carnal disorders in women´s speeches. From this perspective, a wider area of study was evidenced where psychotherapy, together with a psycho-education in sexuality can promote and support programs for those women who, even with the passing years, carry with them a sense of guilt related to their decisions about having sexual intercourse before marriage, trusting on contraception to better enjoinment of their sexuality as a couple and to experience other ways to achieve sexual pleasure. At the same time, this work increases the interest on future studies about the constructed imaginaries into the religious-feminine psyche.