ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ALEXITHYMIA AND MASCULINITY IN SEXOLOGY

Abstract

The term Alexithymia has Greek origins and means lack of words for emotions, created in the 1970s by the Greek psychiatrist Peter Emanuel Sifneos. This condition has a profound impact on human life, especially on men, who, due to culture, avoid expressing their feelings, taking care of their preventive health and exercising self-care. Although its causes are not fully understood today, they may be related to genetic factors, childhood trauma or other medical conditions such as depression and anxiety. The importance of this study is to establish a relationship between Alexithymia and male sexual behavior, in the contexts of sexism, patriarchy, hegemony and health. Thus, this article, which is a bibliographic review, is a qualitative study based on the culture of male invulnerability. Therefore, it is concluded that male behavior, beyond biological causes and experienced traumas, expresses in culture a point of intersection between what cannot be said because it is a man and the difficulty of saying it, which I call male ontogenic alexithymia.