The auditorium of the IES Leopoldo Queipo has hosted today the conference “How to build afftive-sexual education beyond porn”, by the social educator, specialist in gender violence and author Marina Marroquí, within the activities organized by the Government Delegation in Melilla on the occasion of November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
The meeting, aimed at the general public, families, teachers, professionals and interested citizens, has been widely attended by people of different ages and profiles, who have actively participated in this talk focused on the influence of pornography on the normalization of sexual violence and the need for affective and sexual education adapted to current challenges.
Education, training and awareness
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has stressed the importance of carrying out activities such as this within the 25N programming, highlighting the work of the Coordination Unit Against Violence on Women and thanking the presence of the Moroccan Navy.
“Prevention, awareness raising, awareness raising and also training are necessary. The experience that Marina has and, above all, how it transmits its message, is fundamental for it to reach our young people,” he said. “They are at an age when it is necessary to know the reality and have the tools to be able to end this machismo that unfortunately plagues us,” he added.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in the city has insisted on the need to educate and train on equality and has recalled that from the Government Delegation “we want to do that bit to continue contributing to eradicate male violence”.
Influence of pornography on sexual violence
For her part, the Head of the Coordination Unit Against Violence Against Women, Laura Segura, stressed that “one more year we are lucky to have an activist and feminist expert in gender violence such as Marina Marroquí”, because “we were very clear that the message she conveyed had to reach the children of our city as well”.
“The conference focuses on the influence of pornography on the creation of our children’s imaginary and how this directly influences and impacts the situations of sexual violence that we are seeing increase in our society,” he explained.
In this regard, he has stressed that only 8% of women who suffer from gender violence, and in this case sexual violence, denounce. “It is a totally invisible violence and the message sent to us by women who have suffered sexual violence is precisely that many of these violence were suffered when they were minors.”
Therefore, he insisted that “it is very important to do pedagogy, to do prevention with young boys and girls”, stressing that this training could be done “practically at all levels”. “We have to talk to them from the most adult level and also in their language to be able to prevent situations of violence,” he said.
Irreversible consequences of early exposure
The social educator Marina Marroquí has thanked the invitation of the Government Delegation and the reception received in Melilla, where she had previously participated in other activities.
“Having this theater this morning full of teenagers, more than 600 students, has been amazing. The generation gap that exists has been reflected: adults often do not know what comes to young people or how it comes to them,” he said.
During his speech, Marroquí insisted on the need to provide families and professionals with tools to accompany minors and warned that this type of content is exposed from very early ages. “It comes to them at the age of 8, they consume it regularly at the age of 12 and it can have irreversible consequences if we do not act in time. It is important to break that generation gap, to know what comes to them and how to prepare them,” he concluded.