Mirone, ‘educating girls and boys about feelings’

Rome 26 apr. (beraking latest news Health) – Only one in five boys has undergone a visit to the urologist, 65% of young people have never talked about sexuality with their father, 8 out of 10 visit pornographic sites and one in four have sexual intercourse not protected. This is the photograph taken as part of the project ‘The sentimental rudeness of young people’, thanks to a survey administered by the Pro Foundation to 1000 Neapolitan boys between 16 and 19 years old.

“The numbers tell us that one out of three and one out of two girls regularly take spirits on weekends – said Vicenzo Mirone, professor of Urology at the Federico II University of Naples and president of the Pro Foundation -, half of adolescents pass on the internet more 5 hours a day excluding Dad, 25% of young women and 18% of their friends smoke habitually, 25% of males and 10% of females have used soft drugs, one in two and one in three do not practice any kind of sport. A generation also very far from coverage against HPV: less than half of adolescents have been vaccinated against 12% of their peers. Let’s start with the first epidemiological data presented today at the Banco di Napoli Foundation to understand how to reverse the course, talking to the children and providing them with the tools they need to live a healthy and full life “.

“The students – announces Mirone – will be involved in training sessions and working groups within the school. We will also create a Teen Channel for them, a platform that can be freely consulted on sentimental and sexual issues. We will create together a commercial that we will present at the end of the campaign and put Our Mobile Unit is available for visits by urologists, nutritionists, sports doctors, psychologists and sexologists. In the last 40 years – the teacher recalls – the number of obese adolescents has increased 10 times and in Italy the percentage has almost tripled compared to to 1975. Our message must be clear: loving yourself is easy, living better is possible “.

“We have to make girls and boys literate about feelings and then we will come to talk about sexuality, breaking that wall of silence built with the bricks of shame and Dr. Google’s concrete. The ambition is to propose a format that becomes a model for whole country, bringing affective education into school programs, as it currently is for civic education. Our goal is to talk about prevention, underlining the importance of the father-son relationship and remembering that prevention does not mean prohibiting, but opting for the right habits and choices, promote the adoption of correct lifestyles, passing through a healthy diet, good physical activity and correct sexual activity. And that you have to trust more in what you learn firsthand than in what circulates on the net “.