After making education compulsory sexuality and emotional about school, the Ministry of Education made available to the establishments seven initiatives. Of these, only 2 refer explicitly to sexual diversity, while one says "reject wrong views around the difference between the sexes that deny paternity and maternity." "They will be a complete failure, "said Eduardo Catalán, president of the Metropolitan Association of Parents and guardians (AMDEPANDO), when asked about sexual education programs offered by the Ministry of Education. "The question is what are the 7 options because of these, at least 4 are of a profile where they do not touch taboo subjects of sex education," he says. Catalan question refers to the default in most programs on topics such as sexual diversity, a consistent defense of withdrawal, the exaltation of virginity as a gift and almost no consideration of sex as a pleasurable experience independent of love .
Alternatives selected by the National Women's Service and the Ministry of Education, whose teaching will be compulsory from 2012 for the first course of Basic Education, said that proposals meet the working committees of various universities, doctors and groups specializing in the treatment of sex education. However, most offer a perspective that still leaves much to be desired regarding expectations of sexual orientation to date and unbiased.
Chastity, Abstinence and other herbs
One of the initiatives approved by the Ministry of Education is entitled "Learning to love" and is led by the Catholic University of the Holy Conception. His topics offered, which can be reviewed in detail in this website - consider the assessment and strategies of chastity, the importance of sexual abstinence, the gift of virginity, marriage and the relentless defense of essential roles differing behavior men and women.
Part of the text states: "From the moment of our conception we have an identity: are men or women (...) What is missing in the woman is in the man's masculinity and what he needs to man is femininity of women. " Later
the text says "reject wrong views around the difference between the sexes that deny paternity and maternity (machismo and radical feminism). "
"Teen Star" is another of the programs offered by the Ministry of Education. Guided by Dr. Pilar Vigil, is an international initiative on sex education, applied in over 40 countries. In Chile, has been adopted by the Divine Word College, Champagnat and Sacred Heart of Jesus, among others.
"We show the value of life starting from the biological standpoint. Educational way will show the biological reality of living organisms, it is very beautiful. Shows the beauty that occurs, for example, at conception, "says Dr. Vigil. Teen
The draft says Star uphold respect by "the gift of life", or refuses abortion; addresses issues such as homosexuality and education of the will. "We are for life, we want to show the beautiful and real," he explains. "The idea is that the person to decide, but decide based on a reality that we have been able to show. The reality is what it is "- the text sentence. Genetic predisposition
While most respondents involved in the programs were opposed to the possibility of abortion and reluctant to take a position on the Morning After Pill, the proposal of the Faculty of Social Sciences University Chile maintains a more broader than the alternatives that have been revised.
Among the topics considered, there is the review of novel issues in the supply, such as gender violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation. In addition, it is expected that the participants of the program to develop their skills "to make informed choices, reflective, autonomous and accountable in controversial situations related to sexuality and affection."
Meanwhile, Ricardo Capponi, a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, creator of the "comprehensive sex education," says that "we give the information about using the Morning After Pill, as well as about contraception and prevention methods and let free to schools and caregivers so that they can decide about their use. "
regard to sexual practices between same sex, although the psychiatrist says it is treated as a normal condition, however, involves "a disturbance in development as many disturbances that we all human beings." It also notes that "there is a genetic predisposition toward homosexuality biological and after that takes place depending on the environment and the interaction with the father and mother."
NO WE ARE IN THE HOLY WAR "
AMDEPANDO For the leader, the alternatives are only part of" the conservative policy being implemented by the government. " Catalan said that "these programs no opinion or the family or youth."
"Instead, a single program, like its predecessor, though it was bad, it could make the concept of believing that there is a difference and sexuality other than what we have. This must be integrated and that programs do not go that way "- says. Capponi
states that "it is inevitable that an approach to the issue of sexuality implying any value" to what answers Catalan emphatically that "we are not in the time of holy war, when he was being considered it bad witch and could burn. We are at other times we are living completely different realities, and we believe we have to give way to life as it is, with all its weaknesses and all their strengths. "
The programs may be financed through equity of private establishments and in the case of municipal or private schools, subsidized by resources of the School Grant (SEP) or participating in a competition fueled by the Ministry of Education.
By Vanessa Vargas Rojas
The Citizen
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