Seduction crime and gender relationships

In Fortaleza, which is one of the main cities linked to sex tourism in the Northeast of Brazil, young low income women leave the country with or invited by sex tourists. While some indeed engage themselves in the sex industry in Europe, others leave it when marrying European men. Focusing on the universe of integrants of couples integrated women from the Northeast from Brazil and Italian men, this paper addresses the differentiations that acquire centrality when these relationships, formed in an ambiguous terrain where sexuality, economic interest and romance intermingle, are contextualized in Italy. I analyze the cultural, political and economic implications of that migration. The study discusses the relationship between gender and economic negotiations in those couples, reflecting on the meanings acquired by tropical sexuality in the migration to that Northern country.Em Fortaleza, uma das cidades vinculadas ao turismo sexual no Nordeste do Brasil, jovens mulheres das camadas baixas deixam o país com ou convidadas por turistas sexuais. Algumas se inserem na indústria do sexo na Europa. Outras, porém, a deixam, casando-se com europeus. Centrando-me em um universo de casais integrados por mulheres do Nordeste do Brasil e italianos, discuto as categorias de diferenciação que adquirem centralidade quando esses relacionamentos, iniciados em um terreno ambíguo da sexualidade, interesse econômico e romance no qual se misturam, são contextualizados na Itália. Analiso as implicações culturais, políticas e econômicas desse tipo de migração, refletindo sobre os significados adquiridos pela sexualidade tropical na migração para esse país do NorteNas décadas de 50 e 60 os jogos amorosos entre jovens casais de namorados (des) mobilizaram a instituição judiciária, provocando a emergência de um número significativo de processos criminais de sedução. A leitura desses processos, bem como da literatura jurídica que serve de âncora para a retórica dos oficiais de justiça, incitou um olhar mais atento para à dinâmica e sutileza das práticas jurídicas principalmennte no tocante à constituição e/ou manutenção de subjetividades sexuadas (engendered). A noção de gênero poossibilita um distanciamento do imaginário jurídico, alicerçado numa compreensão sócio- biológica das diferenças entre homem/mulher, desnaturalizando e rompendo com a representação fixa e binária das identidades sexuais2 175196In Fortaleza, which is one of the main cities linked to sex tourism in the Northeast of Brazil, young low income women leave the country with or invited by sex tourists. While some indeed engage themselves in the sex industry in Europe, others leave it when marrying European men. Focusing on the universe of integrants of couples integrated women from the Northeast from Brazil and Italian men, this paper addresses the differentiations that acquire centrality when these relationships, formed in an ambiguous terrain where sexuality, economic interest and romance intermingle, are contextualized in Italy. I analyze the cultural, political and economic implications of that migration. The study discusses the relationship between gender and economic negotiations in those couples, reflecting on the meanings acquired by tropical sexuality in the migration to that Northern countryIn the 1950's and 1960's, amorous play among young people (de)mobilized the legal system, provoking growing number of criminal processes of seduction. The analysis of these processes and of the juridical literature which is the basis of the rhetoric of justice officials offers an opportunity to show O Crime de Sedução 196 the dynamics and subtleties of juridical practices, especially for the constitucion and/or maintenance of engendered subjectities. The concept of gender enables a distancing of the juridical world view, fed by a socio-biological understanding of the differences between man and woman, denaturalizing them, breaking with the fixed and binary representations of sexual identitie