Real talk about sexual and reproductive health with adolescents: a report on care devices in a dialogic perspective

Yarning circle about sexual and reproductive health with adolescents: a report on care devices in a dialogic perspective

Abstract

Adolescence emerges as one of the most important and challenging stages of the life cycle for thinking about sexuality. In this way, the creation of spaces for dialogue about sexuality with adolescents must contemplate themes that involve everything from discovering one's own body to the sexual act itself. The objective is to present an experience report on strategies to promote sexual education with adolescents, based on the experience of an extension project. This is an experience report on sex education actions for adolescents in the municipal elementary school network, located in the city of Vitória, capital of Espírito Santo. Faced with this extensionist experience at school, as proposed by the Health at School Program, it was possible to observe that during the meetings, the adolescents were interested in listening and participating in the discussions, in a way that provided a favorable scenario for the flow of conversations, making the comfortable environment so that they could express themselves, without fear or shame, making them feel like an active part of sharing knowledge, adding their experiences and opinions.