The report of this study entitled “Towards sexual education: Moroccan youth’s perception between globality and Islam” indicates that the perceptions of young Moroccans on sexuality are shaped through discourse of immorality within Moroccan culture and the cultural forms introduced by the media and the internet.
The author of this publication, Rachid Benharrousse, is a researcher at the Center for Moroccan Cultural Studies of the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Fez. He argues that “globalization shapes sex education, in that the positive perception of sex education is due to the whole, since young people identify with the western culture they witness in the media and on the internet. , and this leads to a desire to have sex outside of marriage ”.
The role that schools must play in sex education is therefore essential. The only obstacle: “neither young people nor educators are comfortable discussing sexual problems”. As a result, “adolescent sexuality is therefore entangled in ambiguity and undecidability”.
In all, 72 young Moroccans over the age of 18 were interviewed as part of this research published in Journal of Contemporary Studies of the Global South. The vast majority seem to understand what sex education means and how it would affect their lives. 86.5% of them said that having a sex education course would be beneficial to them against 9% who considered that sex education is a “cultural parasite likely to destroy the local Moroccan culture”.
Young people were also asked about the links between sex education and religion. 55% of respondents say that religion is not against sex education. “Thanks to the survey, Islam is not the basis of the problem but rather the political interpretations made, since the majority of the participants are in favor of the inclusion of sex education […] “, Notes the researcher, lamenting that the leaders and young people” seem to have opposing understandings and points of view “, welcomes the researcher.
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