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Adolescence, sexuality and media: a brief revision of national and international literature

This study had as objective identify to the existing production concerning the subjects adolescence, sexuality and media. To carry it out, surveys in international and national databases had been done, using related describing terms to the subject. In the joined references the subjects more investigated by its authors had been identified, being between them: informative rule of the media, the sexual content propagated by the media, its influence in the sexuality of the adolescent and relation between media and the preservation of the dominant paradigm. The media vehicles more explored in the studies are the television and the magazines. It was possible also to identify authors of relevance, as much in international as the national scope, as well as books and periodics that are reference in the area. It was evidenced the lack of production about of this thematic one, mainly when compared with the number of works approaching the subjects adolescence and sexuality, in special in national scope.

Adolescence; sexuality; media


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