ABSTRACT
Sexual health promotion is to a large and crucial extent about facilitating shared decisions; adolescent sexual health promotion constitutes a paradigmatic case. In working with adolescents the issue of sexual health promotion acquires extra layers of complexity, particularly as much of the scientific literature on the topic has often failed to capture the reality of the adolescents, who rarely have the opportunity to elaborate this reality themselves.1 Moreover, adolescent sexual health promotion involves an array of unsettled and delicate issues ranging from age and gender to various taboos that touch conflicting points lying at the intersection of the sociocultural, the medical and the legal spheres (Griffin 1993).
