Importance of Sexual Education

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

An adequate sexual education is the marked difference between being vulnerable to the various negative consequences of a inappropriate sexuality, and the adequate recognition of all the factors that revolve around this issue for the greatest benefit of the individual. Initially, sexual education seeks to guide people towards: 1) knowledge about the various sexually transmitted diseases and their prevention; 2) the reduction of unwanted pregnancies; and 3) provide the tools during the difficult stage of sexual development during adolescence, however, this formative repertoire has been experiencing a considerable expansion, plunging into ever-deeper waters of true knowledge of human sexual nature, as science and psychology are advancing, in the search for answers to questions that until not long ago were silenced as part of the most censored taboos in most of the societies.

Prevention above all

Minimizing risks continues and will continue to be the main priority of sexual education, since knowing the causes and consequences of sexual behavior disoriented and impulsive, it becomes a call for attention that, in most cases, although it is true that not in all, manages to guide towards making a decision. more conscious decisions about who to allow ourselves to have sexual activities with and assume the appropriate protections necessary to avoid diseases and pregnancies.

With a humanity that hypersexualizes the new generations at an ever younger age, and where new technologies provide information and misinformation on sexual matters as part of the greatest attractions within the various media and social networks, it becomes even more necessary to also start what as soon as possible to provide the tools that an adequate sexual education offers, in order to reduce the negative impacts that this new reality could generate in children, adjusting them both to age and context, but even more so using them to establish deep ties of communication and trust between parents and children, with which to keep children safe from potential sexual predators, who may well access them in a way face-to-face and virtual.

make us less vulnerable

Being aware of the limits that we want to establish in sexual intimacy represents the power to develop greater control over it, considerably reducing the risk of being vulnerable to potential manipulations and submissions, suggested by means of mechanisms that seek to address ourselves from the impulse of the instinct of sexual desire, being able to detect in time behaviors and attitudes that can transgress us at a level intimate.

Giving up total control of our sexuality to those who can use it to manipulate it for their own benefit, allows them to assume a power that can to completely dominate all other aspects of the subjected person, this is one of the resources most used by people controllers with various types of personality disorders who seek to lacerate the identity of the other, for not being able to be well with their identity. Shielding ourselves then with adequate sexual education allows, in this sense, to also be able to recognize those who intend to use sexuality as a tool against the victimized person, an example of this there are unfortunately too many cases, which could well have been avoided, of which victims having had knowledge about their own sexual rights and even, in many of those same cases, about what was properly an act of sexual nature.

the pleasure of knowledge

Beyond all this, sexual education continues to progress every day towards the search for an understanding of the mysteries hidden behind the mechanisms of pleasure, opens the doors to an increasingly intimate and own exploration in the self-recognition of it, the what and how of individualized intimacy and in turn of shared, becoming a field with increasing importance within the orientations and therapies aimed at the couple, as part of the necessary resources for the formation of increasingly solid relationships, stable and, especially, satisfactory for both parties, thus cementing values ​​of equality and inclusion, beyond the classification of genders and even the granting of roles.

Within this new approach to sexual education, the consideration of the personal preferences of the individual prevails and not of the duty to be social, guiding more well towards the authentic connection of the person with the value of their own identity in all the dimensions that this represents, in order to grant the true freedom over sexual decisions, empowering them fully, which in turn also leads to the development of more balanced, fair and pleasant.

All this new scenario of sexual education, reveals the profound importance of reorienting even the generations that in their beginnings did not have the opportunity to enjoy this knowledge, facing in many cases the paradigm shift that until recently separated the sexual world of the person from their own Being, still considering in many cases sexuality an irrelevant part of daily life and even more of the personality and most intimate essence of people.

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