O sentido da sexualidade de mulheres submetidas a histerectomia: uma contribuição da enfermagem para a integralidade da assistência ginecológica

Abstract

Histerectomy is a irreversible surgical procedure carried through by medical indication with the purpose to reestablish the health or even to save the woman´s life. To be submitted to this surgery causes modifications at woman´s daily life because the pertinent recommendations to the Histerectomy post operative impose implications in her world-life. This qualitative study had as object to analyze the meaning of women's sexuality after Histerectomy, supported by Martin Heidegger´s thoughts. The informants were 25 women submitted to a total withdrawal of the uterus between nineteen to four months before the data collection. The interpretation of the meaning structure "sexual activity was considered", showed that in the medical and nursing assistential dynamics the routine orientations of sexual abstinence determined by the post operative must be considered from the subjectivity of the woman who will /was submitted to the Histerectomy.