“Eradicating gender-based violence is a collective task. From the Government Delegation we continue to bet on training, prevention and awareness as fundamental pillars to achieve this. That is why it is essential to educate women from a very early age on equality and against violence.”
The Head of the Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation in Melilla, Laura Segura, has very positively valued the talk that the social educator and expert in equality, Marina Marroquí, gave this past Thursday at the IES Leopoldo Queipo to more than 600 students of 4th ESO of the different educational centers of Melilla, focused on the risks of the consumption of pornography and its influence on affective and sexual relations among young people.
With this activity, which is part of 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 Unit aims to “open the eyes of adolescents, offer them tools to identify warning signs and help them build healthy and egalitarian relationships”.
“We need to offer our young people healthy referents and real tools to identify and combat sexual violence,” said The Head of Unit, who pointed out that Marina Marroquí is a reference in this matter.
Building healthy relationships
The social educator and violence specialist has emphasized the urgent need to address affective education among adolescents to prevent the internalization of machismo and the normalization of violence in relationships.
With the monologue “That’s not love”, aimed at adolescent students, Moroccan intends to “take a critical look at the society that educates them, what stereotypes they start from: movies, advertisements or music”, with the aim of young people “to build a critical mentality about the society that educates them and the consequences of how we understand love”.
“How does this society teach us love? How do the opposite poles attract each other? Do those who fight want each other or is love worth it?”, recalled the specialist referring to topics that are deeply rooted in our society, while stressing the importance of offering the new generations “practical tools so that they are aware that love is only worth joy, and that whoever loves you, makes you laugh; otherwise, it is not love”.
Moroccan has warned that the main challenges that are addressed with this training are “the increasingly rapid internalization of machismo and the arrival of more sadistic and violent pornography at very early ages”, which he has warned “builds an idea of relationships in which sexual violence increases disproportionately”.
“Sincerely, from four years here, I believe that this new generation, which today is between 13 and 17 years old, is suffering and is exercising more physical and sexual violence in relationships that they believe are normalized than in all previous relationships,” he said.
Therefore, Marroquí has stressed the need that we have to “address this problem very quickly so that they can build healthy relationships, free of violence”.