A study conducted by researchers from the Institute of Educational Research and Innovation (IRIE-UIB) at the UIB, with a sample of 457 university students, suggests that open communication with one's mother has a direct impact on how young people experience their sexuality. According to the findings, when this dialogue is fluid and sincere, the sense of sexual self-efficacy increases. That is, the ability to make decisions, set boundaries, and act with confidence and autonomy. The presence of myths and misconceptions about sexuality also decreases.

The decision by the Ministry of Education to promote a teacher training course entitled The role of religion in sexual and affective education: new perspectives This has ignited a debate about the possible introduction of religious moral ideology into education, especially in public schools. Despite being an official course, the initiative is generating concern among teachers' unions and associations, who denounce the risk of conditioning students' perspectives on relationships and sexuality based on a specific confessional and moral viewpoint. They consider this incompatible with the principles of neutrality and pluralism that govern the education system and are extensively established by current legislation—the LOM (Organic Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health) refers to "affectivity and sexuality" eight times. The Regional Ministry of Education, through the Ibiza Teacher Training Center (CEP), has scheduled the course from March 3 to 31, 2026. It is aimed at secondary and high school religion teachers, primary school teachers, and secondary and high school teachers in general. Coordination is being handled by Pedro Miguel Ramírez Sánchez, permanent deacon of Ibiza and advisor on Catholic Religion at the CEP. A figure who combines weighty religious and institutional responsibilities.

Gimena Araujo (Buenos Aires, 45 years old) was still a teenager when she arrived in Mallorca from Argentina. Her parents anticipated the economic crisis of 2016 by a few years and settled on the island. "I've spent more than half my life here. I had my children here," she explains naturally and prudently. So much so, that she declines the suggestion of having her photographed for the article. "I want it to be just another business in Manacor, but I try to maintain the anonymity of both my clients and myself. My family isn't as shy as I am."

The 'Women's Eyes' film series, organized by the Estudi General Lul·lià, begins its second edition next Monday, November 17th, and runs until Thursday the 20th. This edition focuses on how teenagers experience their emotional and sexual relationships.

Rosalba coquettishly sets aside the cane she uses to steady her wiry frame. She doesn't want it in the photos accompanying the story of an 83-year-old woman who speaks candidly about her sex life. She settles onto a bench in Llucmajor's Plaza de España and, without being asked, reviews more than eight decades of her life. "I have no balance. I've broken my femur twice. I have a pacemaker and I've had breast cancer," she reveals, placing her hand on her right breast. "I'm bionic!" she declares in Italian, which she hasn't lost despite living in Mallorca for over four decades.

This year, for my birthday, my friends organized a kind of quiz under the premise 'who knows Alba best?' It's unbearably narcissistic to admit, but it's very likely that I was the person who had the most fun during the game (in which, obviously, I wasn't competing). The wit of their questions reached its climax with the following statement: "What did Alba do in the afternoons when she was little?" From among the possible answers, the one everyone selected was "Watching Disney Channel and eating sunflower seeds at the godmother's." And they're right. A worryingly good part of my evenings were spent doing this: remaining mesmerized in front of the screen, without much control or supervision, while on the other side of the house my godmother did exactly the same.

Lluís Ballester Brague (Galicia, 1960) holds a PhD in Sociology (UAB) and Philosophy (UIB), a degree in Social Work, and a professor of Research Methods at the University of the Balearic Islands. His main lines of research have focused on prevention based on family competence programs, the sociology of youth, and the impact of pornography on childhood and adolescence. This Friday, October 10, at 8:00 p.m., in the auditorium of s'Agrícola, he will give a lecture entitledThe connection between Internet pornography and changes in prostitution, presented by Manacor-born doctor Antoni Truyols.

Mariona Guijarro (Palma, 1993) is a biochemist, sexologist, and sexual and menstrual educator. Her critical and social perspective led her to reject a future in biomedical research, citing its academic nature and its "patriarchal and sexist perspective on medicine and other branches of science." She decided to pursue studies promoting gender equality, and the more she researched, the more she realized that "everything had to do with sexuality." And everything is also "how men and women have historically been described and what roles society has imposed: men who are promiscuous by nature and single-parent women, also by nature." She is currently specializing in the Philosophy of Science and delving into the intersection of scientific research, sexism, and other oppressions.

Riding the TIB bus is, as we all know, a risky sport. Personally, my favorite activity is listening to other people's conversations, because of the unexpected surprises you might encounter. Teenagers on their way to a festival in some village in the Migjorn region.fuck friends', ex... And their words pierced my soul like a scalpel, reaching directly to my teenage self who, unknowingly, was still beating. A distress settled in the form of a knot in my stomach that, from time to time, rose to my throat, forcing me to send saliva and contain the urge to cry.