ABSTRACT
This essay is part of ongoing research on the use of sex as a weapon of combat – in the form of discourses, practices, performances and even production of artifacts – used by the extreme right to gain power. This text treats the specific case of Brazil, although the control and use of sex and gender roles are part of dictatorships around the world. Sex is not only a tool for power, but also the axis of a complex political technology composed of discourses and practices that go far beyond moralism and aim to dismantle the serious work of gender studies and, finally, attack the core of democracy.
