Acesso ao conhecimento sobre sexualidade por pessoas surdas: breve levantamento pós pandemia da COVID-19

Abstract

This article aims to present a brief bibliographic review of academic productions that address the theme of sexuality in the context of deafness. The paper, characterized as a bibliographic review and supported by the work of Guimarães and Silva (2020), intends to search for works published in 2022 using the same descriptors used by these authors: Sexuality, Deafness, Hearing Impaired, Sexual Education, Sexual Health. The work of Guimarães and Silva (2020) was chosen because it is a systematic review of works addressing the topic up to the year 2020. In this study, our time frame was selected because it represents a post-pandemic period in which, apparently, there was a significant increase in accessible content in Brazilian Sign Language for deaf people, leading us to assume that the topic might also have been more addressed in research during this period. Therefore, the research aims to present recent literature that reflects on how issues related to sexual education and deafness have been addressed by academic works. Considering that the deaf community has more restricted access to the debate related to sexuality (due to their linguistic difference), we point out with the conducted survey that, although a lot of content in Brazilian Sign Language has circulated in videos and social networks after the pandemic, for example, no increase in academic productions on this topic was observed. This suggests that the field of sexuality and sexual education still needs to be further explored (including in Brazilian Sign Language) for deaf people in the country.