She covers her reddened cheeks along with her arms, and her eyes fill with tears. “It is as though they had raped me. We’re devastated, we’re in shock,” says Paula Tapia, one of the college students of the Juan de los Angeles Cierva secondary faculty in Madrid who attended a unique overall performance for faculties of the play Jauría. Next to her, other pupils say: “You feel helpless, you don’t know how to help”; “Now I apprehend why it is so difficult to document it when you are raped”; “It’s super that her assailants thought they hadn’t completed anything incorrect.”

These young humans are commonly 18 years old, the same age as the woman who in 2016 pronounced 5 guys for having gang-raped her on the Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona (excellent-recognized for its bull run). The arrest of the 5 individuals of ‘La Manada’ (the ‘Wolf Pack’) brought about a tremendously publicized trial that ended the ultimate 12 months with a sentence that did no longer satisfies everybody, and that has recently been appealed by using the Prosecutor of the Spanish Supreme Court. The nine-12 month’s jail sentence for sexual abuse (and not for sexual attack, which would entail a longer sentence) added the feminist movement out at the streets en-masse.

Theatre, the other (sudden) platform for coaching younger people about intercourse and sexual violence 1

‘Jauría,’ written using Jordi Casanovas and directed employing Miguel del Arco, reconstructs the trial using statements via the sufferer and her attackers. The result is a documentary fiction that bluntly dissects all factors of sexual violence, not glossing over something, because it focuses no longer most effective at therapists, however, on the remedy acquired via the girl who has been assaulted at the hands of society as an entire. The Spanish director explained that the purpose he decided to reserve an extraordinary session per week for secondary schools that have been inquisitive about seeing it changed into because young humans “are the protagonists of tomorrow, people who are going to need to reinvent and rebuild. Relations between men and women.”

Fernando Sanz, a teacher on the Madrid-primarily based school that went to peer the play, tells Equal Times: “We suppose that is a very thrilling initiative, even though we would really like intercourse training to be addressed in a scientific and scheduled manner in the school rooms, irrespective of the desires of each instructor or school. We do not need this sort of critical problem to depend on a trainer’s worries.”

His phrases apologize for a ‘vacuum’ in the area of intercourse schooling in Spain that specialists denounce with increasing pressure. “The difficulty is omitted, orphaned despite the reality that worldwide corporations together with WHO and UNESCO keep in mind sexuality a human right and a vital problem in the improvement of individuals,” says María Teresa Bejarano, a researcher at the University of Castilla-La Mancha.

“Every academic group in Spain makes a decision what it desires to provide in phrases of sex training and, often, they handiest call us while there’s already a threat or they have a specific subject, together with having discovered dangerous practices or undesirable pregnancies,” explains Roberto Sanz, a psychologist at the Sexpol Foundation, a specialized organization that prepares workshops in secondary schools.

“When we give a route, we address the most urgent issues, typically fitness and prevention. We would really like to deal extensively with different subjects which are additionally crucial consisting of the management of pride, consent, self-duty, and equality among ladies and men,” he adds.

This ‘gap’ in Spanish intercourse education leaves the manner open, in line with experts, to other non-school channels of initiation. Young Spaniards simplest get 22 consistent with cent of their data approximately sexuality from faculty in step with a joint examine by the German Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network. A reality that locations Spain a long way at the back of other European international locations who have moved extensively further beforehand in sex education, which includes the Netherlands, the Flemish a part of Belgium and Austria (in which 93 in step with cent, 86 in line with cent and eighty-four in step with cent, respectively, of the students’ facts on sexuality comes from their faculty or educational institute).

In Spain, the void left through colleges is being filled with the aid of social networks: the internet consists of 33 percent of the information obtained by way of younger Spaniards, in keeping with the equal observe. “Pornography is the maximum commonplace shape of sexual content that younger human beings see online, and it perpetuates sexist behavior and really chauvinist practices that denigrate ladies. However, this pornographic content material that has constantly existed is now greater accessible, isn’t balanced out by way of any education from the experts to dismantle stereotypes and emphasize the function of love,” explains Sanz.

And the result of this? Young humans, really just children, who think they realize lots aa pproximately intercourse because they often have visible pornography.