Rebecca Palacios
Logroño, (EFE).- Violence against women is “a problem of compliance with people’s basic rights” and, therefore, “tampering with it politically” with “denialist” messages is “extremely dangerous”, he said this Friday to EFE the vice president of the Spanish Academy of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, Carlos San Martín.
This entity, together with the Interdisciplinary Center for Psychology and Health (CIPSA), have organized the XIII National Conference on Updating Gender Violence, in which more than 150 experts are participating until this Saturday in Logroño.
From an interdisciplinary approach, professionals from the health, social, legal and educational fields analyze issues such as emotional dependence, genital mutilation, the ethics of consent, trafficking and sexual exploitation and the problematic use of pornography.
San Martín has advocated “addressing sexist violence in an inclusive way, both from prevention and intervention” later.
Problematic use of pornography
He stressed that “if young people are not offered a model of egalitarian affective relationship based on good treatment, the figures for sexist violence will not drop.”
For this reason, he believes that it is “failing glaringly” in the field of education, because “it is not negotiable that young people, in their schools and in their families, do not receive a message of equality and respect to address conflict situations ”.
He has expressed his “enormous concern” at the repeated appearance of sexual violence among “very young” boys, derived from a pattern of behavior sustained “in a problematic and highly addictive use of pornography.”
The consumption of this pornography leads many young people to replicate a “violent sexual model”, which “internalize as something within normality in relations between genders”, he highlighted.
In this sense, this expert has insisted on the need to “re-educate” the younger population to ensure that they have other types of affective relationships, based on equality.
The political denialism
San Martín has warned of the “damage” produced by “messages that come from political and social spheres that deny the existence of sexist violence or want to equate it to other forms of violence, but whose origin is different, such as intra-family violence.”
“Those types of messages, even if they seem to be residual, end up doing damage,” he has verified.
Thus, he has reported that the recognition of the existence of gender violence in Spanish educational centers was “practically unquestionable” four or five years ago.
“Currently, in the few projects that are carried out in those same schools in the field of prevention and sexual affective education, up to 35 percent of the boys consider that gender violence is an invention of the press and something that objectively does not exist”, he indicated.
This figure supposes, in his opinion, “an unequivocal sign that contradictory or directly denialist messages are transmitted to these minors”, something that he considers “dangerous”.