When i first post a message in this forum it was for advices on a work i was doing in "sexual education". I finished that work and mainly overview the teenagers problems. As you know in the last 3 or 4 decades the first sexual intercourse is much earlier, this is related with a lot of questions (earlier body development, changes in the sexual paradigma....) and brings some problems. For instance: teens, after drugs dependents, are the population in biggest risk to HIV and other STD; pregnance is a major problem in occidental countries, education seems to have no effect on teens sexual behaviors. Whatīs wrong??!! In this discusion i would like to say that the problem is not a question of sex it-self, but itīs a question of personal development. Is a 15 years old teenage girl ready for sex? Well i donīt know, it depends, sexuality is not an isolate issue. So, we canīt isolate it from the rest of our life ... Abstinence and others non-coital behaviors have been talked about, but investigations are clear, they donīt work!
I wonīt discuss dogmas, i have my own ones, but one think is important, no therapist can impose them to anyone ! Sexual education is the answer, but in order to be a correct answer it must be done correctly, or else itīs better to do nothing at all. A sexual educator must have a positive view of sexuality, and education is not about information but about options. Option to say no or yes (knowing the risks), options to learn and to grow in every way (includind sexuality). "sex only after mariage", o.k. as long as i donīt impose this idea on others...
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