We present in this study the thought processes of six adolescents about their sexual and affective lives. They have lived on the streets of the city of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. For that reason they were conducted to the city's Municipal Shelter. They had precocious sexual behavior, with consensual sexual intercourse or not. In 2005 we developed in the shelter a qualitative study for case studies. We interviewed young people who presented habits, beliefs, and values quite different from the middle class youth. The adolescents were originally from families excluded from work and they did not attend school. For them, sexuality is experienced as something new and pleasurable. Sex is what they find to be good about living on the street (or institutionalized). There is no way to establish a direct relation between sexuality and violence among these young people, since for them sex is experienced as pleasurable and affectionate moments.
Sexuality; Adolescent; Violence