Patrones culturales que influyen en la sexualidad de las y los adolescentes de la comunidad de Buenos Aires. Provincia de Manabí. 2014

Abstract

It was carried out a descriptive studio of transversal sequence; to identify the cultural patterns that influence in sexuality of the teenagers among 12 and 18 years old, belonging to Buenos Aires community, Manabí province 2014. It was applied a survey to 25 teenagers among them men and women, of which the 84% accept the union between a minor and an adult, the responsibility of the pregnancies and the household chores, mention are of women exclusively with a 64% and 68% respectively, the 80% relate to the sexuality only with the sex and sexual relations, at the same time think that women that wear tight clothes provocate to men to abuse them or stalking with 80%. According to the attitudes, the 92% don’t talk about sexuality topic with parents, the 84% mention that the education for the sexuality won´t help them to take important decisions in their lives, the 76% deny the importance to know the state of sexual health of the partner. These cultural patterns that influence negatively in the sexuality of this studio group, creating in the knowledge inappropriate, discriminatory and prevailing; for this reason is necessary to do an intervention proposal for demystify these cultural patterns and improve the knowledge, attitudes and practices for better decision making.