Global Journal of Human Social Science, C: Sociology and Culture, Volume 22 Issue 6

couple-relationships, it is the same society which makes it invisible and ridicules these men who are victims of violence, so if they are made invisible and judged unfairly, it is normal that some men prefer to be on the side of the privileged victimizer, the role of the "macho" instead of being on the side of the ones who are judged and ridiculed by society, Bonelli (2016) argues this in her research on the invisibilization of violence against men in relationships, explaining how gender roles and stereotypes are related to the exercise of violence against them by women and society. Once this topic was addressed, we proceeded to talk about VAW, drawing attention to the fact that for women, there are more types of VAW than for men, despite the fact that they talked about the fact that the greatest type of violence exercised towards them was psychological violence , when the topic of VAW was brought up, men did not mention it, but women did, even encompassing all other types of violence, highlighting sexual violence, understood not only as sexual violence , but also as an exercise of power; as if men believe they have power over women and also power and decision making over their bodies, such as whether or not to use contraceptives, this is also violence, as stated in Law 348 and in turn by Quispe, Limo and Runzer (2020) in their research on the association between the use of contraceptive methods and domestic violence in Peru. The discourse argues that VAW also occurs among women, whether among women's partners, even among other women, whether they are close or not, and that many times, as other participants also argue, women can be their own worst enemies, the ones who judge and harm the most, and this is an important discourse that also provides a new perspective on this issue and could also explain why VAW continues to grow and be justified, and that perhaps unwittingly, women themselves often conceal the situation. When talking about VAW, the factors that perpetuate it are important, and for women some of these were: social mandate, minimization of VAW and the lack of knowledge of what VAW is , noting that, as some discourses sustain, VAW is minimized, by the victim and by society, encouraging its naturalization, besides, that it has reached a point, in which many people, do not know that they are being victims of violence, this complementing the discourse that sustains that it is only violence when there are blows and marks, and that, in many cases, despite this, violence is minimized, that society blames the victims for the aggression they have suffered, which also explains why many women do not report or make visible the violence against them, instead of having support, they are judged and are also to blame for what has happened to them. Although VAW has become more visible today, it is not given the importance it deserves, talking about VAW does not deny that other types of violence exist nor does it affirm that all men are murderers, That is precisely why in the men's focus groups we began by talking about intimate partner violence and whether they considered that there was violence against them in intimate partner relationships. VAW is simply a reality, since, according to the data, 7 out of 10 women suffer some type of violence in their lives, and as we can see in the news, femicides increase daily, and have done so more in the pandemic period, and have shown that, for women, their own homes are the places of greatest danger and that this violence is mostly perpetrated by their partners. This topic is complex and also deals with a myriad of factors that perpetuate it, which are rooted in the feelings of each person and is something they have grown up with. This discourse, like many others, shows a particular resentment, and although it is a harsh discourse, it reflects the feelings of the specific participant, which surely is repeated in many more people, and being able to understand this, like the other speeches, is one more step towards understanding the current situation about VcM and romantic love and the relationship between them. VI. C onclusions According to the analysis of the focus groups of men and women and the information obtained from the questionnaires, and in response to the research question and objectives, it could be said that there is a marked difference between men and women, because although they have indicators in common, the content is different, but if it is evaluated from the different age ranges or areas of study to which the young men and women belong, all of these unify the general conclusions that emerged in this study, if evaluated from the different age ranges or the areas of study to which the young men and women in the university stage belong, all of these unify the general conclusions that emerged in this study, also affirming that certain interpretations about VAW or the belief that romantic love belongs to a specific group, to a certain social stratum or context, is a myth. The findings of this research allow us to better understand the complexity of the discourses of young university students between 18 and 30 years old in the city of La Paz, and the way in which they interpret romantic love and VAW, each discourse expressed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, opinions and ideas about these topics, opinions and ideas about these topics, and how these have been woven, forming a particular vision of this particular group, as argued throughout this research, loving is learned and love is a sociocultural construction, as are the gender roles and stereotypes that perpetuate the VAW. According to the discourse analyzed, it was possible to identify that a discourse linked to traditional Volume XXII Issue VI Version I 18 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 © 2022 Global Journals C Romantic Love and Violence against Women from a Gender Approach