Tensiones en torno al cuerpo, el género y el deseo en los Programas de estudio de educación para la afectividad y sexualidad integral de Costa Rica

Abstract

This article occupies in analyzing the Educational study programs for affectivity and integral sexuality of the Ministry of Public Education of Costa Rica (MEP). For this purpose a contextualization of this education directive is made, firstly historical-normative and secondly political. Likewise, the text takes an interest in studying the mode in which different agendas condition and tense the contents of the Programs Specifically, the article deepens in the conceptions of the body, gender and desire of the Programs to demonstrate the confronted visions that implicitly structure such conceptions. The objective is to discuss critically Sexual Education in general, and Education Study Programs for the Affectivity and Integral Sexuality in particular, beyond the dihcotomic (in favor-against) that are usually utilized for these effects.