"- Do you want me to continue?": sexual education and consent in young masculinities in Mexico

• Autor(a) principal: Toussaint Ortiz, Emilio Antonio
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/23339
• topic: Sexual education; Sexual scripts; Consent; Traditional masculinity; Feminism; Ambivalent sexism; Condom use; Educação sexual; Scripts sexuais; Consentimento; Masculinidade tradicional; Feminismo; Sexismo ambivalente; Uso de preservativo

The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of sexual education on the sexual scripts of young Mexican males, with a specific focus on the construction of consent. Two studies were conducted. The first study was a qualitative pilot, aimed to examine how sexual education is experienced and what sexual scripts are involved. This helped us to develop a quantitative survey for the second study. As in previous studies, results of both studies showed deficiencies in the way sexual education is taught in schools and families, and confirmed the presence of sexual scripts related to traditional masculinity in sex education experience with male peers and pornography; other scripts regarding protection, desire, sexual advice and care were also found in sex education from female peers and family members, partner(s), social media, internet and feminism. When comparing both studies, complementary results were found. In both studies feminism and women surrounding participants were resources who shared information that related to high scores in process-based consent, femininity, and condom use self-efficacy, as well as low scores in ambivalent sexism. These results invite us to reflect on how much the feminism movement has impacted men in behaving in a more consent and less sexist way. At the same time, this study invites us to reflect on how we, as researchers, can approach a population that doesn ́t participate if an ethical human rights stand is explicitly presented. Maybe less political correctness in data collection could lead to responses from more traditional masculinities.