Abstract

ORM SAAB, Karina Abou  and  CAMACARO CUEVAS, Marbella. Sociocultural determinants that influence the masculinity and its impact on men´s sexual and reproductive health. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.1, pp.27-36. ISSN 1690-3293.

Approaching the Problem: Masculinity as a cultural construction responds to the characteristics that socially define men, they are associated to a power structured and expressed by their sexual behaviors, in order to prove their manhood, so that it involves them with permissive sexual behaviors and constant risks to their sexual and reproductive health and quality of life. Objective: Analyze the socio-cultural determinants that affect masculinity and its impact on the epidemiological profile of the sexual and reproductive health of men from a gender studies perspective. Methodology: descriptive field study. Sample: 110 male patients consulting. Collection technique: closed questionnaire. Data analysis: registration, tabulation and classification. This study was made from the gender studies methodology. Results: men do not use contraception (71,81%); they don't consider vasectomy (100%); sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are their main concern (73,64%); they consider that male condom reduces their sexual pleasure (74,55%); the main concern about their sexuality is sexual impotence (50,91%); they associate virility with sexual potential (61,82%); diagnosis of prostate disease by digital rectal exam is generally associated with mockery (61,8%); they also consider that this exam is not needed (31,82%). Conclusion: they don't use contraception, the main concern is the risk of STIs and they don't conceive family planning as their responsibility, expressing rejection of the male condom because they conceive it as an inhibitor of their sexual pleasure, they also associate reproductive health care with disqualification of virility

Keywords : Socialization; masculinity; sexuality; virility.