Thursday 4 October 2007

My Magazine Article.



Sexual Education.






Attention Teachers !

"Wena Naty"


Some days ago, we as a nation were pretty surprised when a home video about a teenager nicknamed "Naty" who was having oral sex with a classmate was found on the web. The images were recorded from a cellphone and they are been circulating on the internet for several weeks, generating thousands of visits every day.



The big issue of this situation is that these images of this young girl are child porn which is considered a crime. For that reason these images are being turned into a topic of discussion in Chile about how sexual education is been showed at school.


Because of the video, "Naty" was expelled from her school, but the big question is; Did she have all the fault?. From my personal point of view, I think that she does not have fault, absolutely not, because she is a young girl who is been punished for her behaviour despite the fact that she had never received any information on these topic.


Naty´s expulsion from school it means that we are not support our students, and we should it, instead of stigmatizing and separating them. This situation is a help sign from our teens that we should be interpreted doing something important for them, like new politics about sexual education at school.


We, as a Chilean society have the great opportunity to discuss about sexual education with our children and families and tell them, that sex do not have anything bad, the thing is that we need to do it when we feel that we are prepared, because we love the other person and we must to do it with privacy. We can´t tell nor show all our lives to the internet, it could be dangerous.



((Victoria Pino.))