摘要
objective: to identify the perception of students at the nursing undergraduate course about sexual orientation activities; to establish how these activities should be developed towards the students. methods: this is a descriptive study using content analysis, performed with a population consisting of 193 students of the nursing undergraduate course of universidade federal de sˋo paulo. results: 93% of the respondents agreed with sexual orientation activities and 80% justified the necessity through the following categories: contribution for professional education (9%), stereotypes (1%), necessity of information (26%), prevention (4%), taking care of oneself in order to care for the other (13%), self-knowledge (8%) and difficulties with the topic (19%). conclusion: nursing students are interested in activities focused on the discussion of human sexuality within the academic universe.