Significados da violência sexual atribuídos por adolescentes de uma Escola-abrigo.

Abstract

This research sought to understand the meanings of sexual violence and strategies for preventing sexual violence attributed by a group of teenagers from a school - shelter. To this end, we sought, from the perspective of teenagers, verify that the concept of sexual violence designed to identify possibilities for action against violence that may contribute to reframe the ways to realize the concepts discussed. It was a qualitative study and exploratory approach, which used as a technique for data collection on focus groups and participant observation. The location of data collection was a Shelter- School located in St. Joseph Subdivision, east of the city of Manaus, Amazonas. This institution is the only existing location in Manaus where girls aged between 8 and 18 incomplete, victims of violence of all kinds, especially sexual violence are housed. Procedures that meet the established in Resolution 466 of the CNS were followed - National Health Council Careful screening of information occurred through the technique of content analysis. It was concluded that violence in general, is intrinsically embedded in the lives of adolescents interviewed. Whether in private spaces, through parental figures who should protect them, and end up becoming as authors of violations that include physical, psychological, sexual violence and neglect or even where the dealer invades house to collect a debt mother and / or father drug user, such as public spaces, streets and plazas without security, where the same drug dealers live with bullets and not as "lost" and persecution of suspects of crimes. About sex and sexuality, narratives of adolescents involve seduction, sex exchange of objects, figures close to sexually abuse and they do not trust. We are facing the reality of child and adolescent victims of sexual violence in the XXI century, even "bother" the very society which constitutes a public health problem, but we can‟t rely on actions truly committed to cause. Consider the need for activities (seminars, forums, associations and other actions of youth leadership) to discuss the theme, where enable greater involvement of adolescents, listening more and talking less. We refer here to the shelter as an institution caring and promoting these activities. In relation to society would be very good that discipline Sexual Education would become part of the school curriculum not only as a cross-cutting issue, but as a mandatory subject, providing teacher training and overcoming taboos surrounding the topic of sexuality.