title: The game as strategy for approach to sexuality with adolescents: theoretical-methodological reﬂections.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the Papo Reto [Straight Talk] game and reflect on its theoretical-methodological basis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analytical study on the process of elaboration of the Papo Reto online game, destined to adolescents aged 15-18 years, with access to the Game between 2014 and 2015.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the interactions of 60 adolescents from Belo Horizonte and São Paulo constituted examples of the potentialities of the Game to favor the approach to sexuality with adolescents through simulation of reality, invention and interaction. Based on those potentialities, four thinking categories were discussed: the game as pedagogic device; the game as simulation of realities; the game as device for inventive learning; and the game empowering the interaction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  By permitting that the adolescents take risks on new ways, the Game allows them to become creative and active in the production of senses, in the creation of their discourses and in the ways of thinking, feeling and acting in the sexuality field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal-Child Nursing and Public Health Belo Horizonte, Nursing School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: Vânia de
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Nursing, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Flávia
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Gazzinelli
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Nursing, Nursing School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: Amanda Nathale
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Nursing, Nursing School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marconi Moura
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing in Collective Health, Nursing School, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rebeca Nunes Guedes de
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Nursing School, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Fonseca
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D001938:Brazil; D003198:Computer Simulation / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration; D019529:Sexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D018910:Video Games / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends