Sex Education: a research from European context to Italian context

A global sex education aims at assuring not only physical health but also emotional, mental and social. The method should be positive and based on mutal respect of sexuality. Sexual rights must be guaranteed, protected and satisfyed. The research question is to prove that the lack of presence of SE programs causes a series of negative consequences, not only for the individual growth but for the social impact on the entire community. The initial exploratory analysis of European Context, compared to the Italian one, carried out through a report analysis of prevention of STIs, gender violence and homotransphobia, has highlighted a nonho mogenous reality, which is not careful to the young’s needs of accessing information about sexuality. The research is carried out through an online survey, that has collected in formation on their access, the level of knowledge and the taboos connected to sexuality. The results show that the Italian school is not a source of information. Hence, the interest is to explore the trainers (teachers, principals), in particular of Neapolitan schools, through qualitative inter views basing on SE programs and their personal opinions. The results show an heterogeneous situation in terms of geographic diffusion, providers and objectives. The ma jority of programs is focused on the prevention of STIs by ignoring how much an holistic SE could be an investment, able to determine a series of positive consequences to the social context, like gender equality, homotransphobic dis crimination reduction. It will produce in the subjects a rela t ional ability to respect oneself and others.