A influência sociocultural na vivência da sexualidade das adolescentes

Abstract

It s in adolescence that individuals construct many of the values that will have repercussions in their behavior and can bring significant consequences for their lifes. The teenager becomes vulnerable to influences socio-cultural, which can be viewed in many different transformations that individualize the adolescent process. In this study it is noteworthy relating to sexuality, which is understood as an event produced and manifested by values and arising meaning, from sociocultural components, and is related to several aspects of life manifesting itself through the network of meanings of social group, providing every expression on sex. From the foregoing [,]this study aimed to understand how the socio-cultural aspects influence the sexuality of a group of adolescent women. Therefore, was developed a descriptive field study with a qualitative approach. The scenario was a public school in Santa Maria / RS, and nine female adolescents participated in the study enrolled in that school. Data collection occurred during the months of June and July 2012 through focus groups. For the data analysis was used the thematic analysis. The realization of study was authorized by the school and approved by the Research Ethics UFSM. Results emerge in four categories: The agencies of socialization in the sociocultural construction of sexuality in adolescence- where they discussed about the family and school, which are some agencies of socialization of teenagers in the socialization processes become effective; Living the differences: the perception of teenagers about the female and male sex - this category has clarified the association that teenagers do in relation to their sexuality and treatment of this by parents and society, and has unveiled some topics about the doubts and myths that intersected the sexuality; Being a teenager - losses and gains - where they were presented from the cultural perspectives, the feelings of adolescents with relation to changes of adolescence, about friendships, freedom, responsibility, maturity, their uncertainties, learning, caring relationships, bodily changes and alterations of the social roles; The symbols and meanings of sexuality for teenagers - In that category was approached meanings that sexuality through the adolescents point of view. The findings indicate the importance of knowing the sociocultural context in which it builds the sexuality of teenagers so that nurses can contribute to effective strategies and contextualized in the process of adolescence.