The Lack of Sexual Education
The lack of sexual education promotes a society in which people are unware of their bodies, how to express their inner desires, how to deal with insecurities, and even more shocking, limits the way we relate to others in a healthy, respectful and consensual way. The issue we are dealing with is a worldwide reality, given that we lack the capacity to build sexual-affective relationships in which the people involved agree, feel heard, respected and accepted.
Despite this, sex education is mandatory by law in most of the countries of the EU, the content, quality and frequency will vary due to the different cultural and religious tradition, and financial issues.
But how do
we do it?
Do
we only want to prevent early pregnancies and high rates of STD’s?
As a starting point, the methodology should be modified, increasing the list of topics, and mentioning sexuality, sexual health and sex education, emphasizing the importance of each issue, wich are different from each other but are interrelated. And beyond that, as mentioned in the article published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, ‘Children and adolescents should be shown how to develop a safe and positive view of sexuality trough age-appropriate education about their sexual health. (…) through the 3 learning domains: cognitive (information), affective (feelings, values, and attitudes) and behavioral (communication, decision-making and other skills.) ‘.
So, as we mentioned before, the
failure in the learning process about sexual relations is also subject to important society issues, but
with the commitment of all of us, we can still work together to find new ways
of teaching and learning essential methods to relate and cooperate with each
other.
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