Text produced by Isac Mascarenhas, a journalism student at IDP.
December 1st will be celebrated under the mark of 38%. That's the percentage of teenagers between 13 and 17 who have already begun their sexual lives, according to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). Despite this number, public schools in the country do not have a recommendation for sex education.
According to the organization, in a study released this year, 60% of students in mainstream education said they had suffered some type of discrimination because of their sexual orientation.
Moralizing and evangelizing public education in Brazil is not an old project. In 2019, the number 2 official at the Ministry of Education, Iolene Lima, said that public education would be a Christian worldview.
"The student learns that the author of history is God. The creator of geography is God. God made the plains, the landforms, the climate," explained the then-executive secretary of the ministry.
False moralism is not the only face of expediency. Furthermore, according to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), only 1 in 5 teenagers say they acquired condoms at a health unit. Ignoring any discomfort on the part of the teenager is also part of the bureaucratic distribution of condoms. https://oblakasalon.lt/lipolitikai/
This exclusionary view aligns with the country's clinical picture. Currently in Brazil, young people are the epicenter of HIV infection.
The blindness towards this population is deliberate. After all, erecting barriers to obtaining protection, hindering the fight against misinformation, and prioritizing moralism over health are convenient in a country of convenience.
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