Discursos de jovens adolescentes portugueses sobre sexualidade e amor: implicações para a educação sexual

TLDR: In this article, the discourses of adolescents during a sexual education program were collected and analyzed through Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, which pointed out the recognition of sexual double standard and the tendency to consider a single sex standard and disregard the importance of prevention behaviors.

Abstract: The efforts to lower adolescents sexual risk behaviors have led to results that did not come up to the expectations. Lack of knowledge on myths and beliefs on sexuality may be the main cause of this failure. Trying to overcome some of the limitations of previous studies, this work aimed to directly hear adolescents trying to understand, in a more spontaneous and deeply way, the perceptions and beliefs associated with love and sexual relations. To do so, the discourses of adolescents during a sexual education program were collected and analyzed through Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. Results point out the recognition of sexual double standard, although there seem to exist a tendency to consider a single sex standard and disregard the importance of prevention behaviors. We conclude with some clues about sexual education.