Violência sexual: revelação, prevenção e redução de danos na adolescência

• Autor(a) principal: Soares, Aline Monge Dos Santos [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=9253603; https://hdl.handle.net/11600/64743
• topic: Sexual Violence; Revelation; Prevention; Harm Reduction; Adolescence; Young Adult; Violência Sexual; Revelação; Prevenção; Redução Do Dano; Adolescência; Adulto Jovem

This research is part of a larger project on sexual violence, carried out with the participation of adolescents and young adult undergraduate students, at the Federal University of São Paulo, at Campus São Paulo. This is a descriptive research with qualitative guidance, we used the Oral History data collection technique, oral life reports obtained in interviews with the participants who confirmed that they had suffered some type of intrafamilial sexual violence during childhood and/or adolescence. We aim to know the stories and characteristics of intrafamilial sexual violence, to reflect on its disclosure, prevention, and harm reduction. We have chosen 13 (thirteen) interviews for analysis, selected by gender (female) and type of violence (intrafamilial) criteria. The reports point out that survivors of intrafamilial sexual violence fear their families' reaction to the disclosure, fear being discredited and/or responsible for the sexual violence, feel guilty even though they know they were vulnerable subjects in situations of violence. In this study, part of our participants did not immediately reveal sexual violence because they did not know or were sure of the meaning of sexual violence at the time. Others feared for their relatives and the sadness, anger, emotional lack of control that the truth could cause them, worrying about the possibility of experiencing more violence. We observed that guilt for the violence suffered is a characteristic that perpetuates for years in the lives of adolescents, causing anguish, anxiety, and insecurity. Among our interviewees, some revealed the violence suffered, however, they report that no effective measures were taken. Some of the victims continued to have contact with their perpetrators, sometimes living in the same house. In the few cases where there was a report, the abusers were not prosecuted or punished, showing how the victims are neglected even by the institutions that should protect them. We consider it essential that children and adolescents are warned about the possibility of sexual violence occurring, that they are educated about the forms of its manifestation, being aware of the possibility that the abuser is someone they trust, a family member or friend from the family, advising that all violence should be revealed to an adult as many times as necessary, as the revelation is often not accepted or believed, nor interrupted and reported.