The sexuality coverded by the bodies silence

Abstract

The humane relations are mediated by the verbal and non-verbal communication. The non-verbal communication expresses our feelings and emotions, it complements, contradicts and replaces the verbal communication. This study reflects upon the non-verbal communication as an especific approach to sexuality covered by the bodies silence and it expresses the feelings which are determinated by the interrelation process of each experience. The data were colected through individual enterviews realized from January to March by the year 1995, according to the women from a countryside area in Rio Grande do Sul. It is included in this study the non-verbal signs of the "paralanguage", body language, touch language, and also clothes and items demonstrating the culture, value and cultural precoceptions about Sexuality.