Madrid, (EFE).- The sexual impacts that the child and youth population receives through the consumption of pornography or negative experiences in social networks, such as cyberbullying, have an effect on adolescents that often translates into emotional dysfunction and mental and early hypersexuality.
This is how it was raised this Thursday at the III Meeting of adolescents, family and emotional health organized by Amalgama7, Fundación Portal and Fundación Once on the hypersexualization of adolescents and the consumption of pornography in the child and adolescent sphere.
In it there has been a dialogue about whether the current modeling that adolescents receive in relation to sex, sexuality and pornography is correct and inevitable and whether limits or prohibitions of consumption can be established.
Report: “Sexual (mis)information: pornography and adolescence”
The event was opened by the child protection specialist from Save The Children, Cristina Sanjuán, who presented the report “Sexual (Dis)information: pornography and adolescence” carried out by said entity and which states that more than half of the 53.8 percent of the population consume pornography for the first time between the ages of 6 and 12.
“The role of families is to educate from the accompaniment and lose this taboo that there is when talking about sexuality because we are letting pornography do it for us,” Sanjuán asserted, adding that it must be done “from dialogue and thought critical” instead of through parental control, which “has its limits and will not accompany them all their lives”.
Role of families
Precisely about what families can do, the psychologist and expert in addiction to new technologies and director of Desconecta, Marc Masip, has said that “before working with children you have to start with a previous step, look towards us” to understand your needs.
A teenager belonging to Amalgama7, Alejandra, also spoke at the meeting, who claimed that teaching “sex education classes” would help children and adolescents learn about affective-sexual relationships and recalled that when she was a child “she thought that doing the sexual act was going to be as it appeared in the videos ”.
Social networks
The general director of Youth of the Community of Madrid, Nikolay Yordanov, has argued that one of the problems, in addition to social networks and the large number of pages that can be consulted, is that “parents are often not aware what happens when they decide to give their children a phone with access where you can check anything”.
That is why he has suggested that what must be tried is to “take advantage of it” and “use tools to reach young people and somehow try to tell them what we have here but in their language”, such as offering psychological services through networks or messaging or encourage it through influencers.
A solution: “do not infantilize and stop isolating children from the adult world”
One of the possible solutions and challenges that the director of the Amalgama7 psychiatry area, Jordi Royo, has proposed is “not to infantilize and stop isolating children from the adult world”, that is, “hold them accountable, talk to them and earn as adults the place of respect so that the child can move towards adult life”, he declared.
