Objective:

The aim of the present study was to investigate the perception of sexual diversity based on the representations that young people express through discourse.

Method:

We worked with a non-experimental, cross-sectional / transactional cross-sectional design. As instrument was used the technique of Modified Semantic Networks; Working the following indicators: network size, semantic weight, quantitative semantic difference and network core. The sample was composed of 250 young men and women, aged between 19 and 29 years. A non-probabilistic sampling was used, whose inclusion criteria were: availability and informed consent.

Results:

The results show that the subjects refer to increasingly rigid constructions around sexual diversity, revealing in some cases contradictory discourses around it; On the one hand, negative emotions such as fear and on the other, greater openness to equality and respect.

Conclusions:

It is necessary to con sider that, despite a tendency to change the responses of the participants of this study, this trend and its implications in past and future generations should be monitored.

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