Abstract
This study is a qualitative research with a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach grounded by thoughts of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Maffesoli objectifying to understand how sexuality is manifested in nurses’ daily living in personal, professional and social dimensions. Therefore, between March and April/ 2001, 20 interviews were recorded with nurses from hospital and private and public higher-degree educational institutions. Discourse analysis was effected in three stages: description, phenomenological reduction and understanding which enabled the identification of three thematic units subjectively categorized into: complementarity Eros in personal, professional and social dimensions; motherhood Eros and intermediate Eros, impregnated with power. It was found that nurses’ sexuality is manifested in the desire for the other while complement to bring about family constitution, a balanced life. In the professional dimension, the desire for complementarity evolves in the situation of meeting/ interaction between the caring body and the cared body, effecting exchanges and recognition. The complementarity desire is still materialized in several social aggregations, among corporeities which generate pleasure and moments of relaxation, leisure, the selfcare. The motherhood desire evolves as a fulfilled desire which generates pleasure. The intermediate desire evolves out of the existential insatisfaction which launches us to life and leads to an intelectual and material greed.Thus, I evidenced that sexuality is an ontological dimension materialized in the corporeity which externalizes our way of being and being in the world through Eros facets which permeate human daily life, still this conception furthers a broader vision of sexuality once it transcends the hegemonic reproductive and biological view in nursing.
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