Sentidos sobre a sexualidade e reverberações na formação em saúde

Abstract

The present study analyzes discursive practices on sexuality among university students and health profes-sionals. In order to gather information, a workshop about sexuality was conducted. The analysis was conducted through dialogic maps so as to organize the material present dur-ing the dialogues and to identify the linguistic repertoire in use. There were 18 people involved in the research project, 12 of them were psychology students (09 women and 03 men) and 06 of them were professionals (04 women and 02 men) taking their master or doctorate degrees, members of public programs such as IST/HIV/Aids and HV coordinated by the city government. In order to gather information, a workshop about sexuality was conducted using keywords (sexuality-place, sexuality-food, sexuality-object, sexuality-movie) as dialogue triggers. During the discussions, the participants talked about gender inequality, heteronormatization of social-family space, blameworthiness, women’s body as main sexual object, all of which are important political mechanisms for the discussion on quotidian sexuality as an exclusion producer. This study also evidences the importance of broadening the dialogue about such issues within families, educational and health networks, including universities so as to provide a professional formation based on principles of gender equality, contesting the status quo and allowing a movement of construction-deconstruction-reconstruction of sexuality dialogues in a welcoming, entertaining and respectful fashion.. Through the research results, it was possible to improve the HUMANESCI project creating specific principles: greater autonomy of students in this process, potentialization of more accessible narratives on intervention strategies, diversity reception seeking equality of sexual rights as well as a large engagement of other actors. The product of this study is the report of the articulation between this research and the project HUMANESCI, besides the proposal of a workshop as a tool to constitute dialogues about sexuality on health formation.