EROTIC-CULTURAL MAGAZINE AS AN INFORMATION DEVICE OF DISSIDENCES

THE CASE OF FALO MAGAZINE

Abstract

This article analyzes Falo Magazine as a cultural-informational document and as a device for mediating dissident repertoires, investigating how the magazine represents and circulates discourses on male nudity, eroticism, and dissident sexualities. This exploratory, qualitative, and documentary research examined 15 issues published between March 2023 and November 2025 through a critical documentary analysis guided by thematic-discursive-informational categories. The results indicate that the magazine organizes covers, editorials, sections, interviews, images, and texts as documentary practices that displace the phallus and male nudity from the exclusive field of obscenity to the domains of art, memory, health, social critique, and knowledge. The analysis also identified the resignification of practices associated with deviance, such as pornography, fetish, cruising, and ecosexuality. It concludes that Falo produces its own regimes of visibility, expanding informational repertoires on the body, pleasure, dissidence, and cultural recognition. The study highlights erotic documents as legitimate objects for contemporary critical Information Science.