Entre corpos, ciclos e tabus: análise de uma comunidade virtual

Abstract

The following research presents an analysis of the topics considered taboos in society through discourses of spaces of discussion in the social network Facebook, understood in this work as a virtual community. The researched community is created, managed and aimed at women over 18 years old. We selected categories related to the themes of body, menstruation and sex / sexuality. The community was analyzed between March and August 2017, based on ethnographic techniques proposed by Christine Hine (2000) and content analysis according to Laurence Bardin (2011), as well as concepts presented by Raquel Recuero (2009) regarding the area of social networks. The results indicate the articulation for the discussion of sensitive and personal subjects considered taboos in private places; this place, as the virtual community, is a space of tension between the reaffirmation of common-sense discourses and, at the same time, a breaking of taboos.