Sexual Health: The great forgotten of the educational scope

Abstract

Introduction: Sexual education is a priority in the psychosocial development of people and there is a significant deficit both in the school and the Institutes and Universities, in the informative-preventive  field, as in sexual counseling and in the intervention of Clinical Sexology and / or Sexual Medicine that  are taught, already as indispensable subjects in the Faculties of Medicine of Europe, USA, Canada and  Latin America. In Spain we have more than a decade with a Master of Sexology that is taught at  universities (Almeria, Health Sciences (UAL, Seville, Extremadura) Other University as Camilo José Cela, (at the INCISEX, the Institute of Sexological Sciences ) has been teaching sexology for more than 4  decades, and today sex education occupies spaces in many schools and in many families.The physical  and emotional need to touch us, to give us pleasure and intimacy, accompanies us from birth to We die, to all people, sexuality is reworked throughout a life.

Objective: To value sexual education in our area. 

Method: Analysis of rights and duties in education applied to the sexual field in our country. The OMS. defines Sexual Health in 1975. The W.A.S. in the XIII World Congress of Sexology, (29.06.1997 establishes the Universal Declaration of Sexual Rights or Declaration of Valencia) and updates them in 2014.

Results: There has been an increase in Spanish legislation in the field of sex education, however, an important deficit is still detected that logically limits the formation and development of people. For a National Sexual Health Plan, and implementation of the March 2010 Law. Organic Law 2/2010, of  arch 3, on sexual and reproductive health and the voluntary interruption of pregnancy. https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/2010/BOE-A-2010-3514- consolidado.pdf

Conclusions: Sexual education should be increased in schools, institutes and universities that facilitate the personal development of all people, from infancy to old age.