The manager of Planning and Evaluation of the Panamanian Association for Family Planning (Aplafa), Yuri Pittí, exposed this Friday the issue of physical and sexual violence.
He expressed that we have been talking for many years that we have problems of violence within homes, gender violence and in couples, however, “when we do not have comprehensive sexual education and are not educated in affections, emotions and healthy ways of relating to people, many times we ask if they have suffered violence and people say no”.
He commented that we live in a world where violence is seen as something bloody, as something that has to do with death, “that I have to arrive at the hospital beaten to have suffered from violence. Sometimes even our judicial system sees it that way.”
“Violence does not happen from one day to the next, femicide does not happen from one day to the next. The violence escalates and becomes a kind of cycle that goes through the screams, through the control of what he can say, think,” Pittí said.
He added that Aplafa has been demanding comprehensive education on sexuality. “People think only of sex, but it also incorporates elements of emotional education, self-esteem, how to ask for help and who can I ask for it,” she concluded.
