September 24, 2008
Increasing Sexual Awareness in Venezuela
Now more than ever there has been an increasing awareness among current generations about sexual awareness and about the diseases that can cause a life time of pain, pills, and in cases fatality. Just a few decades ago it was considered normal for women to get married and have children before or close to the age of twenty. It was normal for men to become sexually active at the beginning of their teen years. Nowadays, women in Venezuela are being educated about the problems that stem from early sexual activity as well as early pregnancy.
Currently, there are about 15 million girls ages 15-19 that have children around the world (Munoz 146). What educators are trying to accomplish is to inform adolescents in Venezuela to think more about the problems that can happen with an early exposure to sex and the repercussions such as STDs and child abuse due to the lack of maturity in the parents because they themselves sometimes are merely children.
The Venezuelan Association for Alternative Sex Education (AVESA) is a 16-year-old non-governmental organization based in Caracas, providing community sex education, and promoting reproductive and sexual health (147). They believe that affective and cultural factors determine people’s experience and conception of sexuality.
Mercedes Munoz
www.jstor.org
1 comment:
I agree that it is very important to increase sexual awareness among teenage girls. I am happy to hear that an organization is stepping up to educate teenage girls about the reprocussions of early sexual activity. That way, the girls have a better understanding of the decisions they make.
I would like to see an organization form to educate young men of the consequences of being sexually active too early as well. That way both young men and woman will be able to make better decisions.
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