Sexting e compartilhamento na percepção de adolescentes

Abstract

This work presents the results of a field research carried out in a public school located in the municipality of Areia - PB, with a voluntary sample of 283 high school students, from the morning and afternoon shifts of the EEFM Carlota Barreira school, aged between 14 and 20 years, aiming to identify the practice of sexting and the perceptions about improper sharing in the researched group. This is a qualitative and exploratory study, developed within the scope of the Debate Gender and Sexuality Extension Project: Education in Rights, for the End of Violence 2019. The bibliographic review supported by several authors such as Willard (2011) and Wanzinack ( 2014) indicates that the exchange of messages with sexual content becomes common and that the problem of unauthorized sharing of sexting affects mainly women, such as revenge pornography, demonstrating that gender inequalities and machismo are still present in the forms of relationships interpersonal, including contemporary expressions of human sexuality. Data were collected in September 2019, through questionnaires and pedagogical workshops, with the exhibition of "Episode five" of the Sex Education series (2019) which addresses the issue of disclosing intimate images of an adolescent in the school environment, followed by debate. The results of the questionnaires showed that 73.49% of the volunteer adolescents in the research had had contact with sending and/or receiving messages with sexual content. From the pedagogical workshops, the adolescents negatively evaluated the unauthorized sharing of sexting, and highlighted the importance of unity among adolescents, especially among girls, to respect privacy. It is possible to conclude that if treated with due responsibility by the school, the adolescent will be better prepared to understand their sexuality and related issues, reducing the propensity to practice sexting and expose their bodies and private lives.