Medicalization Processes of dissident sexualities in contemporary times: biopolitical reverberations in light of Michel Foucault

Abstract

Hypermedicalization has generated several problems for our contemporary society and has been the subject of concern in studies and interventions in numerous institutions, and when we specify this in relation to the apparatus of sexuality, we realize that a rather disturbing scenario is presented. The objective of this work is to reflect on and discuss how dissident sexualities are medicalized by biopolitical devices in contemporary times. The methodological procedure used was a qualitative bibliographic research and Foucault's archeogenealogy, which allows us to think about contemporaneity by questioning biopolitical practices. From the reflections generated by this article, we can affirm that there is a panorama of great distress that can become intolerable in the field of violence and violation of the rights of people who assume performances and subjectivities through sexualities that dissent from heteronormative norms.