We are horrified to see children working in sugarcane fields in the Brazilian Northeast. Gymkhanas, dodge ball, and comic books have been replaced by provocative and erotic dances that hurl children into an adult world where flawless, seductive, blond women are the heroines of a new century. Sex and seduction are embedded in the backbone of every Brazilian child's life. Super-saturation of the sexual theme lets no one, not even children, escape. Everything is sex, and everything is at the service of sex. You return home the same day, lipoed and ready for dinner with your husband and kids.īut it's sex, not beauty, that heads our expectations. In the more remote areas of the country, some tourist agencies promote trips to the capital that consist of lipo in the morning, shopping in the afternoon. The popularization of plastic surgery is such that we don't even weigh the risks involved. We do liposuction the way we go to the hair stylist. In plastic surgery, Brazilians take second place only to Americans. Wrinkles, along with obesity, are our eighth deadly sin. At 20 we still allow one or two smile lines.
From 40 to 60, it is difficult to judge a woman's age. She must above all have an attractive body and be forever young. The new woman cannot be merely independent and a good professional. The concept of the perfect body is the newest worldwide pathology. Today, scientists who follow an "organic" approach consider love a biochemical reaction that guarantees the preservation of the species, or, in a more psychoanalytical view, a human invention as important as "the wheel, marriage and medicine." In either case, love is a by-product of sex and related to physical appearance.
It seems love has lost its status, become disconnected from the idea of sex. When I asked my pre-teen daughter's pediatrician about a good way to broach the subject of sex, he told me: emphasize love.
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