The expert, Benigno Blanco, focused his lecture on trying to understand the social phenomenon of hypersexuality. The "omnipresence in society of the sexual issues of the human person" and how we can all be present in the education of the youngest.
Blanco stated that Western culture, for a couple of centuries, has been accustomed to "looking at nature as if it were something mechanical", that is, with the new experimental science, instead of seeing a world with a soul, a world of mechanical forces and atoms is observed, and this vision, accompanied by atheism, also extends to biology.
"In the 20th century, especially since the sexual revolution of 1968, this mechanistic vision has been extended to the human body. This has led to an absolute depersonalization of sexuality which is understood as something manipulable and usable."
Benigno Blanco
To this notion of worldview, the influence of the capitalist mentality has been added. "Market forces are occupying more social aspects and it extends to the human. For example, pornography, which has become a consumer product of the exhibition of human sexuality, an industry that moves a lot of money," said Benigno Blanco.
The expert warned that today, a child with a cell phone has access to all the pornography in the world because it can be accessed free of charge. And he recalled alarming figures:
"Bodies are exhibited as objects of consumption to others. Numerous contact websites are growing. We have turned the body into an object of consumption: we offer it and consume it. In this way, the body and sexual relations have been trivialized."
Benigno Blanco
At the same time This commodification of sexuality is taking place, with the irruption of the contraceptive pill and the legalization of abortion, sexual relations no longer have any consequences. Thus, the consumption of fast sex and the promotion of hypersexuality are made easier.
On the other hand, women now also control their sexuality like men and are not subject to motherhood. "But also her body has become an object of consumption. And on many occasions, women, in order to be loved, feel obliged to offer the attractiveness of their bodies. It is no longer a market of affection but of attractive bodies. And at the same time, the cosmetic surgery industry is growing," said Benigno Blanco.
This way of proceeding can be dangerous, especially for adolescent girls, who see their bodies as their only claim to be loved and not to be discriminated against.
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Thus, the pornographic gaze that considers bodies as a consumer product for pleasure, the culture of sexual exchange without consequences that has allowed contraception and abortion, and the progressive commodification of the body and sex, lead to what we call today the hypersexualization of society.
"This is the hypersexualized world is in which our children are educated. Added to this situation is the influence of gender ideology, I am what I feel. And our children are under this pressure."
warns, Benigno Blanco
For this reason, Benigno Blanco invited us to feel responsible for this era:
In this line, the expert has insisted that it is important to explain to our children and friends what human sexuality is all about.We have to look at human beings because sexuality is not a social construct, it is what we are. We see boys and girls, because there is nothing else. There is no such thing as a human being in the abstract. We are not beings without sex. The human being exists as a sexed being, men and women. We are our sexuality in everything we do".
Benigno Blanco continued, explaining that The feminine and masculine are complementary, psychically and biologically, with the power and potential to create another human being.
"We can be fathers and mothers thanks to our sexuality. We must educate to consider the body to love and be loved. To give oneself.
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For this reason, Benigno Blanco has advised us to talk with respect and affection about sexuality without worrying about the results. "We cannot change this society, but we can influence those around us. Revolutions are achieved by transforming hearts and heads"..
And in this task, he has given three pieces of advice:
"At the end of life, one must analyze the time one has invested in loving, in the people you have around you who love you and who you love. "Instead, other people have invested in loving themselves, and using bodies. And they reach ages alone. Without loving or being loved. Today the world does not need doctors but witnesses.".
Benigno Blanco
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