EDUCAÇÃO SEXUAL NO CONTEXTO FAMILIAR E ESCOLAR: IMPASSES E DESAFIOS/SEXUAL EDUCATION, FAMILY AND SCHOOL: CHALLENGES AND IMPASSES

This article is the result of a literature review and aims to address the challenges and dilemmas in the development of sexual education by parents and educators, as well as discussing the value of emancipatory sexual education in youth training. The results shown from different studies evidenced that many families deprive their children of emancipatory sexual education, the negative value sexuality, believing that children are "asexual beings", as they believe that dialogue anticipated sexual practice and is feel unprepared and timid in dealing with the issue arising from the sexual uneducated in which they were victims. This result showed that, sexual education in schools has spanned the anxieties of adolescents. In contrast, this has occurred in a limited way, coupled mainly to biological and reproductive aspects of the individual, thus negating the whole breadth pleasurable and beneficial that it provides. The authors concluded that, more attention should be given to their sexuality and thematic approach in schools and in the relations between parents and children.