Sexualidade adolescente como direito ? A visão de formadores de políticas públicas

Abstract

This dissertation aims to identify the perceptions and representations of Child and Adolescent Rights Counselors regarding the possibility of sexuality affirmation as an adolescents right, exploring the way by which different perspectives towards adolescent sexuality articulate themselves in the discourse and acting of the actors involved in the assurance field of children and adolescents. Seven qualitative interviews with Rights Counselors from the Municipality and the State of Rio de Janeiro, as well as the National Council, were made, which included both governmental and non-governmental representatives. The work discusses the emergence of new rights and new subjects of rights in the Human Rights political scenario. The construction of the sexual rights ideology and the paradigm of children and adolescents as subjects of rights, brought by the shift in the Brazilian legal landmark with the promulgation of the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) serve as a basis for a debate concerning the possibility of adolescents being holders of sexual rights, according to the perceptions of the interviewed counselors. The work intends to contribute to a more general reflection about how much adolescent sexuality calls into question both the ideology of adolescents as subjects of rights and the universalism process of the so-called sexual rights.