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Investigación y Educación en Enfermería

Print version ISSN 0120-5307On-line version ISSN 2216-0280

Abstract

SANTOS-COUTO, Pablo Luiz et al. Sexuality and HIV prevention: consensus and dissent of Catholic youths. Invest. educ. enferm [online]. 2018, vol.36, n.2, e06. ISSN 0120-5307.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iee.v36n2e06.

Objective

To analyze the consensus and dissent of Catholics youths about HIV/AIDS prevention from their representations about sexuality.

Methods

This is a quantitative and qualitative research based on the Theory of Social Representations carried out with 84 Catholics youths who answered online to the Free Word Association Test on Facebook and three questions about the influence of Catholic doctrine on the free exercise of sexuality and the adoption of practice safe sex. The techniques of Factorial Analysis of Correspondence and Semantic Content were used.

Results

On sexuality, only the young women with access to higher education represented the term as a free practice that should not lead to guilt. There was a consensus on chastity, virginity, and sex within marriage as effective means of HIV prevention. It is also representational consensus of the young people that sexual practice is pleasurable, however, condemned by the church, and that AIDS is a preventable disease. Social representations have revealed dissent between men and women, while they consider that the exercise of sexuality should be restricted to marriage, they advocate sexual freedom. As for AIDS, they represent that the syndrome stems from prejudice, and they consider that vulnerability favors contagion.

Conclusion

In the consensuses among the young people studied, there are sexist prejudices and stereotypes that influence HIV/AIDS prevention actions. Therefore, health professionals, especially those of Nursing should propose actions aimed at this age group in educational activities about the adoption of preventive practices on safe sex, always considering the social representations around the subject.

Keywords : young adult; religion and sex; sexuality; sexual behavior; consensus; dissent and disputes; acquired immunodeficiency; síndrome; social media.

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