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0271/2025 - Covid-19 and the domestication of adolescent and young people's sexuality in the emergence of the pandemic (2020-2022)
Covid-19 e a domesticação da sexualidade de adolescentes e jovens na emergência da pandemia (2020-2022)

Author:

• Cristiane S. Cabral - Cabral, CS - <cabralcs@usp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3025-2404

Co-author(s):

• Vera Paiva - Paiva, V - <veroca@usp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8852-3265
• Djalma Barbosa - Barbosa,, D - <djalma.barbosa@ufr.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6143-7543


Abstract:

The social and sexual interactions of adolescents and young people were significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing challenges in addressing prevention and sexual education in schools. This article addresses the socialization of sexuality during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on two researches with young people aged 16–19, high school students from peripheral areas in São Paulo. A mixed-methods approach was used: a) observation of interactions among young people and collaborative activities in school settings; b) a questionnaire self-administered before the pandemic (2019) and after schools reopened (2022); and c) 40 individual in-depth interviews (2022). The school environment is a setting for experimentation and learning about gender and sexuality, capable of welcoming both the reinforcement of cisheteronormativity and the expression of gender and sexual non-binary identities. The pandemic has intensified a process of domestication of sexuality, functioning both as a preventive strategy and as an adaptation to the pandemic context. Harassment and consent in affective-sexual relationships are topics of great interest to young people and should be central to intervention and prevention programs targeting this population.

Keywords:

covid-19; schools; young people; sexuality

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Cabral, CS, Paiva, V, Barbosa,, D. Covid-19 and the domestication of adolescent and young people's sexuality in the emergence of the pandemic (2020-2022). Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/Aug). [Citado em 05/12/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/covid19-and-the-domestication-of-adolescent-and-young-peoples-sexuality-in-the-emergence-of-the-pandemic-20202022/19747



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