Do you remember the school trip, the parties, the disco meetings, the simple group walks, those that were taken in a group? Stop. Nothing at all. Of all this past, among other things not so much, and out of the blue, there is only some nostalgic trace in the memory of our children. Fault of Covid which blocked everyday life, entrusting it only to the virtual screen.
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Teens, when sex can wait
by Valeria Pini
This is how their peers saw themselves, through a PC or a tablet: their “apple time”, gone, finished, canceled by the pandemic. Over a year of restrictions necessary to contain the circulation of the virus has impoverished the relational and even sexual experiences of children in a critical age, that of the “first time”. Young people who enter the intimacy of the senses are more uninformed and more alone: the internet has become almost the only source of information and also of sexual practice, with the doubling of the use of sexting, cybersex and online porn. Even friends, who until two years ago were a primary source of knowledge on the subject of sex, are distant and, for the most part, only virtual. The risk of disinformation, isolation and lack of reference points is that of taking refuge in sexual behaviors and lifestyles that are potentially harmful to the development. And it’s not a bar talk.
“Guys, sex education is for discovering eros without risk”
by Claudia Carucci
The experts of the Italian Society of Andrology (Sia) speak of alarm, and they are not wrong. dedicated to teenagers and sexuality. The solution? It would seem obvious, but it is still the most valid: sex education at school and use of andrologists. “Never as today the reopening of schools in the presence is crucial to bring out young people from the remote life in which they drowned due to Covid – warns Alessandro Palmieri, president of Sia and professor of Urology at Federico II in Naples – and it is essential that young people learn to turn to the male sexuality specialist to obtain correct information, intercept disorders, dispel uncertainties and count on a serene sexuality even in the years to come “.
Sex and boys, when is it too early? The advice of the psychotherapist
by Valeria Pini
The above study involved 80 16-year-olds of both sexes, just the average age of the “first time”, with answers provided in 2019 and 2020. What questions? Obviously all centered on the universe of eros and its practices: awareness of sex, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and, also, the interpretation of the channels usually used to correctly update on sexuality and relationships. “If on the one hand the pandemic has damaged 16-17 year olds, deprived of a fundamental year, the year in which the first experiences are generally made – Palmieri specifies – on the other it seems to have made them responsible and made more attentive to sexually transmitted diseases, use of condoms and the choice of stable partners “.
“The data show that only a third of young people (35 percent) say they know enough – he says Francesco Chiancone of the Cardarelli Department of Urology in Naples and coordinator of the study – while only 10 reported having a stable partner. And then, 27.5 percent confided that they had had full sexual intercourse. Internet is the first source of information for one in two children, followed by friends (28.75%). Just 5% of the adolescents enrolled in the study admitted to having obtained information about sex from doctors, 55% of the participants never told anyone about sexuality. “The rest (harmful), as has been said, did the internet , school in fits and starts replaced by Dad, porn sites, cybersex and sexting. “All this increases confusion and misinformation, leading to incorrect behavior and lifestyles that can undermine the future sexual well-being of children as well as the psychological one: it has doubled in ‘last year also the share of young people who admit to feeling lonely and dissatisfied “, underlines Chiancone.
Sexual infections, we learn to prevent them especially in the summer
by Tina Simoniello
“The problem is above all male – Palmieri insists – because boys hardly, practically never, turn to the specialist. And among other things, they confide less in peers and family than girls, finding themselves even more alone”. “School sex education programs should be introduced as soon as possible, focusing on early intervention protocols that can reduce future problems, sexual and reproductive, such as venereal infections and unwanted pregnancies. And it is necessary to stimulate children. young people not to be ashamed to turn to the andrologist: their peers have their first interviews with the gynecologist often in adolescence “.
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