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    Beyond Equality – Nonmonogamy and the Necropolitics of Marriage
    (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2025-04-10) Cardoso, Daniel; Klesse, Christian; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
    ‘Marriage equality’ has been a widely used slogan and mobilizing concept for LGBTQ+ rights’ movements across the globe striving for formal recognition for ‘same-sex’ or ‘same-gender’ marriages. In this article, we critically interrogate the terminology and political rationality that have given shape to ‘marriage equality’ campaigns. We demonstrate the structural erasure of non-monogamous relations and populations from the changes hoped for and envisioned in these mobilizations. The lack of any genuine and substantial concern with Consensual Non-monogamies (CNMs) from most of the literature in the field highlights the close entanglement of marriage with monogamy. As a result, ideas are scarce about how meaningful and adequate legal recognition and social policy provisions for a wide range of intimate, sexual, familial, and/or caring bonds or constellations on the CNM continuum could look like. We argue that the critique of the mononormativity inherent to marriage is fundamental to understanding the role of this in the 21st century. We identify the roots of the mononormativity of marriage in its governmental role as a necropolitical and biopolitical technology, evidenced by its ‘civilizing’ function in white settler colonial projects. Because of this, an expansion of the call for equality to include non-monogamous populations does not resolve but rather aggravates the problem. We conclude that any truly queer politics of CNM consequently needs to be anti-marriage.
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    The bodies of the (digitized) body : experiences of sexual(ised) work on OnlyFans
    (Society of Media Researchers In Denmark, 2021) Cardoso, Daniel; Scarcelli, Cosimo Marco; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
    OnlyFans has enjoyed increasing attention from media and from users and consumers, especially since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, and particularly amongst internet- savy emerging adults. We used semi-structured interviews to collect testimonies from young Italian women (N=20) who sell their own sexual(ised) content on OnlyFans and processed them through Thematic Analysis (Braun & Clarke 2006). Through this process, we sought to explore how different bodies are conceptualized in relation to content production, and how labour takes somatic existence in multiple ways. We looked at (1) how the body is prepared to be presented and mediatized, (2) how its presentation is conceptualized and actualized, and (3) how that work of re-presentation, as a work of networking and therefore where bodily energy is invested and expended. Through this, we show how there are multiple, concurrent and at times contradictory, narratives about corporality, and that potency and healing coexist alongside exhaustion.
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    But some people still think that men cannot be raped : a qualitative study on Portuguese Judges’ perceptions regarding rape perpetrated by women against adult men
    (Routledge, 2025-05-24) Carmo, Eunice; Cardoso, Daniel; Brazão, Nélio; Carvalho, Joana; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
    Introduction: The perceptions of judges regarding sexual violence perpetrated by women against men (SVWM) have not been approached widely in previous empirical research. This exploratory qualitative study aimed to provide a preliminary understanding of the perceptions of Portuguese judges regarding SVWM. Method: Eight Portuguese judges (men and women) were interviewed in 2020. Data was analyzed using framework analysis. Results: Gender and alcohol had central roles in judges’ accounts, as non-consent, motivations, risk, the impact of violence, and sexual scripts were mostly discussed with these two factors in mind. Narratives oscillated between gender-neutral reflections and depictions of gender stereotypes and male rape myths. Challenges and opportunities of the Justice System were discussed considering the stigma associated with SVWM, while judges’ accounts were shaped by their lack of direct experience with such cases. Conclusions: Participants’ narratives reflected important contradictions between their adherence to some male rape myths and gender stereotypes and their endorsement of the ideal of a gender-neutral rape Law. Policy implications: The results of this study implicate that the impact of gender-based perceptions and rape myths on rape-related attrition rates and sentencing in SVWM cases should be further explored in empirical research. Additionally, public policy efforts should be invested in evidence-based professional training for judges focused on challenging gender stereotypes and male-rape myths.
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    Cascais, A. F. (2025). Estar além: A persona queer de António Variações. Edições 70
    (Centro de estudos sociais, 2025-05-30) Cardoso, Daniel; CICANT (FCT) - Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada, Cultura e Novas Tecnologias
    Revisão crítica da obra “Estar além”, de António Fernando Cascais
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    Constructing sexual victimization : a thematic analysis of reader responses to a literary female-on-male rape story on Goodreads
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2024) Tselenti, Danai; Cardoso, Daniel; Carvalho, Joana; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
    Τhe aim of this study was to provide a detailed understanding of unprompted audience responses to a literary story of female-on-male rape on Goodreads. Thematic analysis of 429 reviews revealed 6 key themes and 12 sub-themes, which evolved around appraising the social function of the book, evaluating its literary features, assessing the depiction of female-on-male rape especially in terms of its perceived realism, as well as around a variety of explicitly emotional and cognitive responses. The aesthetic features of the story proved to be of particular importance for shaping reader engagement. Reflective elaborations on the female rapist were found to constitute a marginal response pattern. Findings identified the existence of an overarching cognitive schema that construes sexual victimization as feminized and is linked to a tripartite pattern of comprehending female on- male rape (female-focused, gender-inclusive, gender-neutral). The study highlights the persistence of gendered rape myths structured around an "ideal victim" - "ideal offender" paradigm, which however co-exist with alternative responses oriented towards de-gendering sexual victimization. These findings suggest the importance of addressing audience responses in future investigations of female sexual violence (hands-on and hands-off behaviors) and pursuing an interventional agenda of more inclusive conceptualizations of victimization.
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    Construction and validation of a questionnaire on kinky and BDSM fantasies and activities in portuguese adults
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2025-06-20) Vilhena, Inês; Martins, Margarida; Cardoso, Daniel; Duarte, Eva; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
    Sexual practices considered unconventional, including kinky and BDSM dynamics, are integrated within the diversity of human sexuality. However, studies often use ad hoc instruments and/or depend on the self-identification of participants, leading to inconsistent results. Therefore, the present work aimed to fill these gaps through the development and validation of the Kinky and BDSM Fantasies and Activities Inventory (Inventário de Fantasias e Atividades kinky e BDSM; IFAKBDSM). This instrument was developed based on the adaptation of two preexisting instruments and in response to discussions with psychologists and researchers experienced in this area, as well as individuals with kinky practices. Study 1 involved an Exploratory Factor Analysis with 260 Portuguese adults (18–72 years; M = 29), and Study 2 comprised a Confirmatory Factor Analysis with 515 Portuguese adults (18–79 years; M = 30). The preliminary factorial analysis identified four factors consistent with the literature: Domination and Sadism, Submission and Masochism, Voyeurism and Exhibitionism, and Fetishism. The second study confirmed this structure with satisfactory factor weights and fit indices and presented good internal consistency. The final version of the IFAKBDSM comprises two sections: the first one includes 28 items that assess seven dimensions organized into the four aforementioned factors; and the second section encompasses 38 items that focus on kinky practices. Globally, the instrument presented satisfactory psychometric results, proving to be a reliable tool for studying kinky and BDSM practices in Portuguese adults.
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    Defining polyamory : a thematic analysis of lay people's definitions
    (Springer New York, 2021-05) Cardoso, Daniel; Pascoal, Patricia M.; Maiochi, Francisco Hertel; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies; EPCV - School of Psychology and Life Sciences
    This study aimed to analyze laypeople’s definitions of polyamory and compare definitions presented by people who are not willing to engage in consensual non-monogamy (CNM) and those who are or are willing to be in a CNM relationship. This exploratory qualitative study used data collected from a convenience sample through a web survey, where people answered the question “What does polyamory mean?” We conducted thematic analysis to examine patterns in meaning and used demographic data to compare themes among groups. The final sample comprised 463 participants aged 18–66 years (M = 32.19, SD = 10.02), mostly heterosexual (60%). Of the total sample, 54% were in a monogamous relationship, followed by 21% not in a relationship, and 13% in a non-monogamous relationship. Analysis showed that people define polyamory mostly as a set of behaviors in a relationship, followed by the potential of multiple relationships or feelings for multiple people. Definitions also include emotional, sexual, and ethical aspects. People in CNM relationships are more likely to define polyamory as constituting a potential form of relating, focus more on interpersonal feelings and ethics, and include consent in their definitions than those unwilling to engage in CNM. People in CNM relationships also focus particularly on the non-central role of sex within these relationships, which might challenge assumptions about sexuality in these relationships in clinical and research settings.
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    Desafiar a monogamia : declaração de intenções
    (2025-02-22) Navarro, Pablo Pérez; Barbosa, Mônica; Núñez, Geni; Cardoso, Daniel; CICANT (FCT) - Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada, Cultura e Novas Tecnologias
    O dossiê que você tem em mãos surgiu de uma premissa um tanto peculiar: preferíamos não ter muito claro, de antemão, sobre o que iríamos tratar. Pode parecer uma aposta arriscada para um número "temático", mas a verdade é que contávamos apenas com um conjunto de inquietudes relacionadas ao imperativo cultural da monogamia que, bem vistas, não pareciam apontar sequer na mesma direção.
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    Digital sex work? : Creating and selling explicit content in onlyfans
    (Routledge, 2022-11-10) Cardoso, Daniel; Chronaki, Despina; Scarcelli, Cosimo Marco; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
    Recently, we have seen relatively unknown platforms, like OnlyFans, rise to popularity among producers and consumers of sexual(ised) digital content. This seems to be especially so in the case of young adults who were affected by a sudden disappearance of entry-level jobs in hospitality, retail and associated functions, or diminished university experiences compared to expectations, due to the COVID-19 crisis. Although there is an increasing amount written on young people, sexuality and the media, research on both young adults and their experiences with sexuality online and online sex workers is still lacking, and more so in the case of the use of patronage platforms to sell sexual(ised) content. Focusing on younger women producers, this chapter illustrates their challenges within patriarchal societies and the way in which sex work is heavily gendered. By relying on Thematic Analysis of 20 interviews of Italian emerging adults, our analysis focuses on the self-definition of our participants as sex workers. It examines how OnlyFans creators articulate their professional self through the production of contents, marketing practices and customer relations to understand if and how it is possible to speak about deplatformed sex, and to understand that negotiating the identity of ‘sex worker’ is less about the specific material conditions of those doing content production, and more about the hallmarks of what a ‘job’ is. keywords: sex work ; OnlyFans ; porn ; content producer ; platform labor
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    Diversidade relacional e olhares mediáticos : uma década de representações jornalísticas de não-monogamias consensuais em Portugal
    (2021) Cardoso, Daniel; CICANT (FCT) - Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada, Cultura e Novas Tecnologias
    O contexto dos Direitos Humanos e da cidadania íntima (PLUMMER, 1995) é frequentemente usado para explorar o poliamor (CARDOSO, 2017) e outras formas de relacionamentos alternativos à mono-normatividade (PIEPER; BAUER, 2005). O activismo em torno destes temas tende a seguir de perto a agenda política traçada em primeira instância pela comunidade LGBTQ+, sendo algumas das suas expressões mais visíveis as que se alinham com a conquista de direitos dentro do contexto das democracias liberais (AVIRAM, 2010; AVIRAM; LEACHMAN, 2015; SANTIAGO, 2015). Estudar a forma como as Não-Monogamias Consensuais (NMCs) são representadas na imprensa permite compreender a cobertura do tema, a linguagem usada, os actores sociais mobilizados, e que conceitos são passados para o público em geral. Este artigo apresenta os resultados da análise da cobertura noticiosa sobre NMCs em Portugal, na imprensa escrita, entre 2010 e 2020, através de análise de conteúdo a 238 artigos, e permite compreender que, apesar de o poliamor ter entrado de forma generalizada no vocabulário comum, a agenda mediática parece pouco sensibilizada para com as actividades e publicações de activistas sobre NMCs em Portugal, demonstrando uma limitada capacidade destes em impactar a agenda mediática e contribuindo para um foco individualizante e potencialmente despolitizado. Isto, por sua vez, dificulta a integração da diversidade de orientação relacional como um elemento plenipotenciário da organização de identidades e comunidades íntimas e seus sujeitos como detentores de direitos políticos válidos.
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    Diversity in partner number sexuality via Sexual Configurations Theory
    (Springer New York, 2025-01-16) Mathi, Lydia Victoria Kula; Wilhelm, Bianca S.; De Barros, Ana Carolina; Cardoso, Daniel; Connolly, Sam; Van Anders, Greg; Van Anders, Sari M.; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
    “Partner number sexuality” (P#S) refers to how many partners individuals have/are interested in having. Those with P#S outside of monogamous desires and/or practices commonly face stigma in North America and elsewhere. Yet theories of sexuality do not always make room for diverse P#S. One theory that does is sexual configurations theory (SCT), which visually models gender/sex and sexuality (van Anders, 2015). In this study, we investigated what insights SCT could provide into P#S, whether SCT was useful to those with minoritized P#S, and how those with minoritized P#S made use of SCT. To do so, we conducted online interviews, asking participants (N = 26) to complete two SCT diagrams and report on their experience. We used template analysis to analyze transcripts and compiled “SCT heatmaps,” aggregates of SCT diagrams. We constructed 11 major themes, including diverse understandings of eroticism and romantic/platonic relationships, the impacts of hermeneutical injustice (the injustice of knowledge systems) on participants’ abilities to conceptualize and discuss their P#S, and how SCT facilitated conversations about P#S. The heatmaps showed that participants made use of most of both SCT diagrams, showing branchedness in P#S between “eroticism” and “nurturance,” and between status, identity, and orientation. Our study highlights that the lived experience of partnering, especially of those with minoritized P#S, extends far beyond commonly understood categories, and that SCT is a useful tool that can accurately reflect diversity in P#S.
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    Editorial : videogames and narratives
    (Lusofona University, 2017) Luz, Filipe Soares Branco da Costa; Cardoso, Daniel; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies; HEI-LAB - Human Environment Interaction Lab
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    Framing empathy : examining audience responses to female-on-male sexual violence
    (Springer, 2025-02-17) Tselenti, Danai; Cardoso, Daniel; Carvalho, Joana; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
    The purpose of this secondary study was to investigate readers’ empathic framings in response to a female-on-male rape literary story, as articulated in online reviews on Goodreads. Drawing upon Nabi’s “emotions-as-frames” approach, we conducted a qualitative framing analysis by using a combination of deductive and inductive strategies. Two overarching empathy frames already present in the literature (bright, and dark empathy) served as interpretive anchors for categorizing empathic responses. Additionally, sentiment analysis was used to assess responses’ emotional valences. Qualitative findings yielded five main framings: (1) femalecentered empathy and (2) sadistic empathy (aligning with the dark empathy frame); (3) empathic distress and (4) empathic anger (demonstrating overlaps between the bright and dark empathy frame), and (5) compassion (characteristic of the bright empathy frame). Sentiment analysis results showed a notable presence of mixed sentiments. Our findings highlight how empathy operates across a spectrum, encompassing various combinations of self-oriented and other-oriented framings with diverse emotional valences (positive, negative and mixed). These nuanced responses shape distinct paths of feeling through, with/as, for, or even showing concern for the fictional male victims. They further point to the significance of “feeling rules” that socially distribute empathy and establish hierarchies of “deserving” and “nondeserving” recipients. Departing from previous research that approaches empathic reactions to rape themes within a unidimensional perspective, our findings point to the importance of addressing the interrelations between audience responses and multi-dimensional, multivalent emotional flows. We further discuss the implications of the “darker” sides of empathic engagement for sexual violence prevention and efforts to challenge male rape myths.
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    How the portuguese media represented the first racialized female MP head of a political party
    (2021) Cardoso, Carla Rodrigues; Lamy, Sónia; Cerqueira, Carla; Martins, Carla; Cardoso, Daniel; Barradas, Alexandra; Ragasová, Anna
    This paper is part of an ongoing research that analyses the news coverage of the first six months of the parliamentary term of Joacine Katar Moreira, the first racialized woman head of the political party LIVRE (meaning ‘free’) in the general elections of 2019 in Portugal. PhD in African Studies, black woman, feminist and anti-racism activist, the first MP with a stutter, Joacine Katar Moreira arrived at the House with a renowned academic career and a history of engagement in the social area. The starting question which guides this research is: how did the national press – in both print and digital formats – represent Joacine Katar Moreira from 6 October 2019 to 6 April 2020? This period of analysis enables us to follow the two initial stages of her MP’s term - the debut as MP and the exit from LIVRE following irreconcilable disagreements. In February 2020 she became an independent MP and from this date onward, the media agenda was dominated by the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the aftermath of the 2019 parliamentary elections, three new political parties entered the Portuguese Parliament: Chega! (meaning ‘Enough!’, far-right), Iniciativa Liberal (meaning ‘Liberal Initiative’, right-wing) and LIVRE (left-wing). It was expected that after the new parliamentary composition was settled, routine would set in which would dilute the novelty conferred by the media to the presence of these three parties. This would not be the case with LIVRE, as a result of the processes of Othering performed by the media, vis-a-vis the social situatedness of Joacine Katar Moreira. Throughout nearly four months, LIVRE and Joacine Katar Moreira would take up the media agenda, going from the euphoria of victory and the focus on the MP’s differentiating features, to the disputes between her and the party she was elected for. The process would come to a head on 3 February 2020, when LIVRE withdrew its political trust in Katar Moreira, who refused to leave the Parliament and became a non-attached member. The research aims at understanding how the Portuguese national press represented, framed and narrated the Joacine Katar Moreira case, not only the surprise of her election but to which extent her political persona defied the established patterns of Portuguese political news coverage. This paper will share the first results of the study. The corpus includes the front pages of newspapers, covers of magazines and homepages of nine selected media, both quality and popular press with different political approaches: Correio da Manhã, Diário de Notícias, Expresso, jornal I, Jornal de Notícias, Observador, Público, Sábado and Visão. The news and opinion pieces of the selected media are analysed using an intersectional approach, seeking to ascertain the dimensions used by newspapers, magazines and websites to represent Joacine Katar Moreira at their most important device as well as the implications of this social construction.
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    «#MeToo, és tu?» : incertezas ativistas ontológicas por entre tensões e re-mobilizações portuguesas contra a violência de género no Twitter
    (CICS.NOVA - Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, 2025) Cardoso, Daniel; PEREIRA, ANA SOFIA TORRES; Delgado, Carla Maria Gomes; Cerqueira, Carla; Taborda, Célia; Rodrigues, Juliana; Simões, José Alberto; Campos, Ricardo; CICANT (FCT) - Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada, Cultura e Novas Tecnologias; Centro Universitário Lusófona - Porto; Faculdade de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    The #MeToo movement started on Twitter in 2006, aiming to give visibility to shared narratives of victims of gender-based violence, highlighting its systemic nature. In this sense, technical accessibility to the networked communication platform was an advantage for the dissemination of stories related to the sphere of intimacy, and made it possible to mobilize a specific audience with the ability to occupy technological, social, and discursive space in a highly contested area. This chapter is based on the collection of tweets made until the end of 2022 (inclusive) that contain the hashtag #MeToo, or #EuTambém (Portuguese for "MeToo"), and the word "Portugal" or that were published in Portugal. The aim is to conduct the first complete analysis of the history of this hashtag in Portugal, and to understand how the 'Portuguese-ness' of the use of #MeToo manifests itself. Based on the analysis of the content of the tweets and the network of social actors and reach (through replies, reactions, and shares), we show that: 1) the ontological status of a Portuguese #MeToo, or its mere possibility, is in constant contestation and reaffirmation; 2) corporate media still have a predominant role in pre-defining discursive frameworks on Twitter, creating responsive rather than proactive mobilizations; 3) the discursive performance associated with #MeToo is sometimes accompanied by a non-use of the hashtag, denoting a rejection but not a refusal to participate in the debate.
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    Sexual fluidity, BDSM and gender : an exploratory study on Portuguese BDSM practitioners
    (Springer New York, 2023-10-25) Marujo, Catarina; Cardoso, Daniel; Oliveira, Alexandra; CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
    BDSM constitutes a stigmatized form of sexuality in which sexual fluidity may arise. Noting the scarcity of research on these themes in Portugal, we sought to explore and understand sexual fluidity in people who identified themselves as BDSM practitioners, both in the context of so-called ‘vanilla’ sex and BDSM practice. Using a qualitative methodology, we prepared an online questionnaire disseminated on platforms used by BDSM practitioners, having obtained 54 participants. The data were subjected to content analysis and simple statistical analysis. Three themes emerged from the analysis: the importance of gender in both forms of sexuality, the perception and knowledge about sexual fluidity, and the experience of sexual fluidity. It was found that BDSM practitioners are relatively sexually fluid and demonstrate various sexual behaviors discordant with their romantic and sexual attractions. In addition to this, there were multiple justifications regarding the importance of gender when it comes to their attractions. It was also found that men, regardless of sexual identity, are more sexually fluid than women. This study contributes to the knowledge about BDSM and the deconstruction of categories related to gender and sexual identity, and finally, to the normalization of non-normative sexual practices.
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    What is sexual pleasure? : non-monogamous people’s definitions
    (2024) Henriques, Carolina Caeiro; Escola de Psicologia e Ciências da Vida; Pascoal, Patrícia M.; Cardoso, Daniel
    O prazer sexual é um indicador relevante do bem-estar sexual. Tem sido frequentemente associado a outros constructos como o orgasmo, a satisfação e o próprio bem-estar. No entanto, todos estes são aspetos individuais da vida sexual das pessoas, e cada um merece ser explorado de forma independente. As definições de prazer sexual têm sido baseadas em visões teóricas de especialistas, deixando de lado as experiências pessoais de prazer sexual das pessoas. Além disso, os estudos sobre este tema parecem centrar-se principalmente nas relações diádicas. O objetivo deste estudo foi compreender a definição de prazer sexual partilhado numa amostra de pessoas que se envolvem em relações consensualmente não monogâmicas (CNM) através de uma análise temática reflexiva. Para o efeito, foram selecionados 96 participantes de um estudo maior, de acordo com a sua configuração relacional. Através de uma análise temática reflexiva, identificámos cinco temas: "Zona de Conforto"; "Ligação Emocional"; "Práticas Gratificantes"; "Sensações Relevantes"; e "Abertura à Experiência". Os nossos resultados reforçam uma visão multidimensional e holística do prazer sexual, dada a diversidade de fatores mencionados pelos nossos participantes nas suas respostas. Segurança, comunicação, conexão, satisfação, práticas específicas e exploração estão entre as respostas mais frequentes. Os resultados corroboram as definições anteriores de prazer sexual, ao mesmo tempo que fornecem uma abordagem mais específica e complexa sobre este constructo. Embora a nossa amostra inclua apenas pessoas que se envolvem em relações de CNM, não houve menções a práticas específicas deste tipo de configuração relacional. Palavras-chave: prazer sexual, não-monogamia consensual, análise temática