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“(…) we are in the 21st century, demystifying is needed. Carmo Gê Pereira, 32, born in the northeast, with a degree in Communication and post-graduation in sexology, started preparing and selling sets for adult leisure (presenting toys and sexual jewellery) and is now in counselling and sexual education for adults. After eight years of workshops in Lisbon, Porto, Aveiro she makes a positive balance: «We are accepting new ways of being, choosing not to stay within the compulsory pleasure speech inside the closed scripts of no pleasure coitus. »
The awareness and consent themes and the experience of no guilt desire, well agreeing with today’s tendency, that’s what matters. Conforming it are «sharing pornography in couple, in any ages, the consented non monogamies, non normative sexuality, tantric and sacred» and the meetings frequented by senior adults, «with well constructed practices and intimacy a lot healthier than we think». On February, 14th, Valentine’s Day (and of erectile dysfunction…), there will be another symbolic event in Porto: The first conference “Yes, we fuck”, a movement pretending to demystify handicapped people’s sexuality.
But one of the events that surprised Carmo Pereira the most happened three years ago, in Oporto Literary Club (part of the Project Mudanças com Arte II’s cycles). The lecture Shortbus: Constructing a new Sexual Utopia, Traumas and permeabilities that included screening the daring film portraying the New Yorker’s underground universe with sex scenes «out of the box». Ending the session Ana Lúcia Magalhães sang three fados well within speeches and practices, under a new light, cherishing no expectations, nor the suffering weight. «The average participant’s age was past 50 years old and it was a beautiful experience .»(…)”