Adolescents’ discourse about sexual life in adolescente

Abstract

The present essay is a descriptive and qualitative study. It has the purpose of knowing the adolescents’ discourse about the safe (or not safe) sexual practice (with or without contraceptive methods) in adolescence period. We realized open interviews with 20 students from both sexes, in the first semester of 2006, in a public school in Panambi City, (Rio Grande do Sul State). For data collection we used semi-structured interview and to analyze the data, we followed the content analysis purpose from Bardin. Then, two themes came out :  “ Between consider normal and not to be at the right time yet: the adolescents discourse  about sexual life in the adolescence”; and “Is it the rigth time? – what the adolescents think about starting their sexual life in this period of life”. From the first theme, we can infer that the adolescents are searching for a sexuality based in the ethical relations, not only focused in genitality, but in affectionate aspects. From the second theme, we can conclude that, about the beginning of sexual activity in the adolescence, the teenagers majority think that it is not the “right time” yet. However, there is the recognition and the claim of the  right to the sexuality activity, which is understood in a major context, in other words, associated to the affect, love, and based in ethical relations.