Inmaculada Teva is a researcher at the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior Research at the University of Granada, is conducting a study on sexuality in adolescents, which seems to show the influence of gender roles and stereotypes.
They are the stereotypes that mark that girls must be more evasive or passive, and that in order to achieve greater emotional development of the relationship, they must be involved in sexual experiences. Also the expectations according to the gender role, can move the boys to have more partners and more relationships, while in girls, just the opposite is expected.
Teens start their oral and vaginal sex at age 15 and the variety of behaviors grows as they grow. Condoms are the most commonly used contraceptive method, but not in oral and anal sex; In addition, the reason they use it is to prevent pregnancy, and not to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
The girls feel less able to talk or negotiate condom use, that is why it is important to promote the development of social skills from the family, and to be interested in the programs that are developed in this subject in schools, institutes or other entities. Social skills do not only serve in the field of sexual intercourse, but they make the person feel more secure.
I am thinking that I do not know if the fact that girls are less able to express themselves in a sexual relationship, will not have (sometimes I say) also to do with those relationships of increased control in the couple between minors, of which we Angel Peralbo spoke.
The study on sexual behavior and sexual practices has been carried out with a sample of 4612 young people
In my opinion, the usefulness of these studies is to act as a reminder to adults, in the sense that sexual education when children are close to adolescence, should not focus so much on transmitting information, as on listening (assuming that want to talk), expose our values, avoid judgments, and be 'available' when children (no longer so much) claim our help in some way.
Giving talks about sex education in Parent Schools, I have heard attention calls from boys or girls who had come with their parents. Two are especially striking: on the one hand they complain that parents care a lot about the possible risks, and very little about the feelings of the youngest on the ground. And secondly, they believe that adults do not trust them.
