Meus pais não ousaram falar (Educação Sexual)

Abstract

In this communication some years ago in Geneva’s École des Parents, the author considers sexual education in children and adolescents. Sexual education in childhood refers to the attitudes that parents should take when facing auto-erotic activities (masturbation) in the child, as well as curiosity and infantile sexual theories and early phenomena of oedipal attraction. The principles and rules (now much more verbal than before) convenient to govern the sexual education of adolescents are, according to the author, the following: 1) Sexual education should be oriented by the parent of the same sex; 2) Integral respect of the opposite sex; 3) It is advantageous for parents to be aware of anxieties they have concerning certain areas of sexuality. It such is the case, sexual education should be left to a third party (friend of the family, family doctor, teacher school).