{"id":158518,"date":"2023-09-04T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=158518"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:56:24","slug":"comprehensive-sex-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/health\/comprehensive-sex-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico is lacking comprehensive sex education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Mexico, sexual education is still insufficient<\/a>. Few schools include comprehensive programs that cover the physical, psychological, emotional, social, behavioral, and cognitive aspects of human sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Karla Urriola<\/a>, a member of the Mexican Federation of Sexual Education and Sexology (FEMESS)<\/a> and National Leader of Tec de Monterrey’s Gender and Safe Community Office, the main reasons behind this are taboo and the lack of a proper social structure that can support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In our country, much of what has happened around sex education is due to the fact that we still see sexuality from a reproductive, heteronormative and taboo perspective,” she explains in an interview with TecScience<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the expert, one of the roots of this is the influence of the Judeo-Christian ideology that has caused great shame and ignorance around sexuality. \u201cIt has been filled with myths and punishments and it has only been seen in one way,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lack is one of the reasons why, worldwide, Mexico is the first country in adolescent pregnancies and child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), around the world, only 34% of young people have sufficient knowledge about HIV prevention and transmission<\/a>, and two out of three girls don’t know what happened to them when they had their first menstruation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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