Banca de DEFESA: LEONARDO MAGELA LOPES MATOSO

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LEONARDO MAGELA LOPES MATOSO
DATE: 06/03/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google Meet: meet.google.com/irm-yucx-sox
TITLE:

Between the sacred and the profane: anal incarceration of priests accused of homosexual practices in media discourses.

KEY WORDS:

Conservatism. Media. Ass. Homosexuality. Priests.

PAGES: 185
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUBÁREA: Teoria da Comunicação
SUMMARY:

Sexuality has long been one of the central stages of debate across various fields and social segments, with particular emphasis on homosexuality, historically treated as “abject” and “profane” by Christian conservatism, which uses its religious institutions as structures of power and control for the docilization of dissident bodies. From this perspective, the present study aimed to investigate how anal incarceration is discursively constructed in media environments, analyzing its framing as a device for regulating sexuality within the Catholic Church. To this end, the research is grounded in theoretical intersections, mobilizing conceptions of corporeality and erotics from Antonin Artaud (1974), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2004), Michel Foucault (2008), Georges Bataille (2021), and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2022), while also engaging with inferences on gender, sexuality, coloniality, and media through Judith Butler (2019), Maria Lugones (2020), and Rita Segato (2022). These perspectives are further integrated with theoretical contributions from Paul Preciado (2022), Javier Sáez and Sejo Carrascosa (2016), Muniz Sodré (2002/2014), and Leo Bersani (1987) concerning media, anality, transgression, and countersexuality. The adopted method was archaeogenealogy, divided into three stages: the construction of an archaeology of the anus; the development of a genealogy of anal incarceration and its dogmas as reflected in the media; and, finally, the proposition of an erotics of the anus. The unit of analysis was the X platform (formerly Twitter), where headlines, news titles, and comments were examined through observational analysis combined with Foucauldian-inspired Discourse Analysis (Foucault, 1996). The results indicate that anal incarceration is discursively enacted within the Catholic Church and mediatically operated through mechanisms of sensationalism, stigmatization, and the intensification of dissonance between identity and religious function. By exploring cases involving priests’ homoerotic practices, these discourses foster generalized distrust toward the clergy and sustain an image of institutional hypocrisy, in which desire understood as an immanent drive of existence is masked, criminalized, and pathologized. Media impact not only exposes the Church’s internal contradictions but also reinforces and amplifies historical devices of moral surveillance, reaffirming the symbolic prison imposed upon deviant bodies. By amplifying such narratives through sensationalist frames, the media reactualizes a contemporary inquisitorial logic, in which the desire to be penetrated anally remains interdicted between scandal and punishment, configuring a spectacle of control and collective shame.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - DAIANY FERREIRA DANTAS - UERN
Externo à Instituição - GLAUCO FERREIRA - UFG
Presidente - 3943432 - JOSENILDO SOARES BEZERRA
Interna - 1841870 - LILIAN CARLA MUNEIRO
Externo à Instituição - NILTON MILANEZ - UNEB