After circulating a video of the “new pedophile” violating a minor’s performance on the beach in front of everyone, many activists wondered about “the child’s lack of any reaction,” attributing this “perhaps to the fact that the child was unable to distinguish between abnormal touching and acceptable touching, which some consider part of of the daily living of Moroccans.
The incident called again for the inclusion of sex education in the Moroccan educational curricula, given its “ability to help children decipher the various codes of any behavior.”
Although sex education is a topic that has been subject to political and ideological tensions in Morocco and the region, according to some, “a wrong image has been formed among many Moroccans about its contents and educational goals, so that it is still seen as an educational legitimacy of dissolution,” and this is despite the emphasis of advocates of this subject repeatedly on They are “ordinary contents that carry educational didactics, whose purpose is to protect students and take care of their sexual health.”
Commenting on this controversy, Soumaya Noaman Jasous, a university researcher on sexuality issues, said, “Sexual education has a practical ability to convey to children many messages, outside the forms of intimidation that we see within Moroccan families, so that families are content to always warn the child, although this process It may create a weakness for him in trusting the environment,” explaining that “sex education can play this role by balancing this warning with its practical impact, which does not disturb the child’s mental health and does not affect his social integration.”
Jesous added, in an interview with Hespress, that “sex education will enable the child to understand that whoever touches his body or genitals or kisses his lips, this requires direct reporting to the parents or the teacher, in order to besiege the phenomenon more,” noting that “sex education is necessary today, Its role cannot be rejected or denied.” She added that “jurists have no role in setting its contents.
And the Moroccan researcher recorded that “the matter requires a great sensitization process, in order to develop family awareness that the mouth of the child or the child or their genital organs are fortified places that no one has the right to touch, including the parents,” considering that “physical contact is part of Moroccan popular culture, and therefore sexual education It will show the boundaries between indecent assault or harassment, and sympathy, respect and expressions of love or affection; It educates children that these human conditions end at known limits.”
And the spokesperson stated that “awareness, sensitization and education must take into account the new pedagogical carriers, such as pictures and videos, because they are more informative to deliver the message, but on the condition that they are subject to the examination of specialists and that they are in accordance with criteria that take into account the age of the target child,” stating that “concepts such as [الاغتصاب]The child should not hear it, and we encourage him to reveal every mistake that happens.” She concluded by stressing that “sex education will serve the child, the family, and society; Because it reconstructs new relations of awareness of abnormal phenomena.
For his part, Said Laarid, head of the Moroccan Association of Islamic Education Teachers, said, “What distinguishes sexual education in Islam is that it came in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Qur’an and the directives of the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, to draw together a wise approach to dealing with human instinct within the framework of moderation and moderation.” Explaining that “the importance and danger of this substance can be recorded at the same time; Islam is keen on revealing areas of ambiguity, and removes much confusion about what they are and what they really are.”
He mentioned to Arida, in a statement to Hespress, that “the Holy Qur’an gave us a group of stories of the prophets with their people, and there were many authentic hadiths that show the importance of teaching sexual education to children at a young age so that they persevere in it without deviating from common sense,” noting that “its danger lies In the possibility of recording any deviation from its legitimate purposes, so that destruction can befall humanity, which is what many Western organizations seek, and unfortunately even Arab and Islamic organizations.
The spokesman added, “Our concept of sexual education requires providing the learner, especially with legal and scientific information, and the value controls directed towards sound attitudes towards it, which allows teaching people what is known from religion necessarily within the framework of psychological, physical, physiological and mental growth,” stressing “guiding the male and female to absorb the components of moral traits.” To them, not to teach them about sex, as some seek.”
The speaker pointed out what he considered a “duty” for the educational authority in the country to “awareness and devotion of the importance of sexual education in its legal dimension, which is based on praiseworthy modesty and the legitimacy of discussing and studying sexual issues, but in a manner that does not reveal private parts, does not arouse instincts, and does not excite pleasures, through Pleading metaphor as it is said. Sexual education that is divine in source and realistic in direction and purpose, in response to human nature.
On the other hand, many researchers in Moroccan sociology, including Soumaya Noman Jasous, argue that “the subject of sexual education must be recognized by Moroccans outside of prejudices and ready-made, in order to achieve mental reconciliation with a subject whose foundations are sound,” especially since these sociological activities see That “the opponents of sex education have not yet presented practical solutions that contribute to besieging dangerous phenomena such as rape and pedophilia.”
