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Sexualization of adolescents in times of human capital: a conceptual review of the problem

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No. 23 (2025): Junio
https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2025.79590
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Abstract

During the Covid-19 pandemic and up to the present day, reconfigurations have intensified in adolescent sexual cultures that participate in mechanisms of monetization of sexuality in social networks, enabled by the expansion of infocommunicational devices. In these practices we find traces of the functioning of a neoliberal ethos that collapses spheres previously considered with certain autonomy, such as the boundaries separating sexuality, money, work, pleasure and age norms. These transformations demand an epistemological revision that problematizes assumptions that hinder the understanding of their scope. To this end, this paper proposes a critical conceptual review that addresses notions that present limitations for interpreting these scenarios and proposes others that allow us to address the particular configuration of current capitalist power relations. The notions that we incorporate to the debate are sexualization of culture, reification, subjectification, economization, monetization, erotic capital, sexual capital, theories of human capital.

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human capital, monetization, sexuality, digital environments, teenagers

Author Biographies

Facundo Boccardi, Universidad Provincial de Córdoba y en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Dr. en Semiótica, investigador del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, y académico en Universidad Provincial de Córdoba y en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Pilar Anastasía González, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba y en la Universidad Nacional de San Martin

Dra. en Estudios de Género, académica en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba y en la Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina

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Boccardi, F. ., & González, P. A. . (2025). Sexualization of adolescents in times of human capital: a conceptual review of the problem. Revista Punto Género, (23), pp. 35–69. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2025.79590
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