“La obligatoriedad de impartir una asignatura de educación sexual puede imponer planteamientos sin fundamento científico”
"Making it mandatory to teach a subject of Education sexual may impose approaches without scientific basis."
According to Jokin de Irala, professor at the University of Navarra, the affective-sexual Education is the responsibility of parents.
"The obligatory nature of teaching Education sexuality in schools poses a problem: that there is an attempt to impose approaches that are not based on current scientific evidence; questions that are often opinionated and even contrary to the general interest", says Jokin de Irala, professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the University of Navarra. The topic becomes topical in view of the approval of the new abortion law in the congress of the deputies, whose first articles establish the sexual Education of children to position of the State.
According to this expert, "the responsibility of the affective-sexual Education is of the parents. Legislators must guarantee that they can educate their children according to their values and that the whole system educational respects the diversity of convictions".
In this sense, he claimed a healthy sexual and affective Education of fathers and mothers, supported by teachers: "They are the ones who know their children best and who from love, closeness and daily attention can best help a young person to educate his or her character and prepare him or her for love." To this end, he advocated that parents should update their training in order to respond to current educational challenges: "For example, by reading texts based on evidence-based medicine, participating in parenting schools or taking courses at training in person or via the Internet".
The professor of the School of Medicine assured that "young people receive a lot of information on sexuality. However, this characteristic coexists with a certain affective illiteracy, a feeling of unhappiness and failure in matters related to love". In his opinion, it is the result of insisting on the biological aspects of information on sexuality without helping young people to develop as people capable of love: "A sexual Education without values is a call to sexual experimentation. And sexual experimentation, with or without condoms, is full of risks."
Protect sexual health without eliminating the weakest
On the other hand, he pointed out that sexual and reproductive health must be protected from Public Health. "'Sexual and reproductive health' means, among other issues, deciding when and how to favor or avoid pregnancy," he said. However, he explained that when there is a pregnancy "we should not talk about 'the right to sexual and reproductive health' to 'interrupt' it, because the right to continue living of another human being is at stake: the most defenseless in society."
"In the 21st century," said the expert, "we should be capable of having more imagination and humanity to solve a problem where three human beings are involved (the unborn child and its biological parents), without the need to eliminate one of them". Likewise, he indicated that to adduce sexual and reproductive health to facilitate abortion is a contradiction in terms "because current programs of study indicates that people who abort suffer more mental health problems than those who decide to go ahead with their pregnancy".