A man admitted on Wednesday to showing pornographic videos to and sexually abusing a minor, taking advantage of the fact that he lived with her and her parents were not home. The events took place on June 26, 2021, when the perpetrator, who shared the home with a family, took advantage of the parents' absence to show pornographic videos to the minor. When the victim refused to continue watching this content, the man subjected her to inappropriate touching. He then asked her not to tell her parents what had happened and left. As a result of these events, the minor has suffered anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, for which she has received psychosocial support. The parties reached an agreement on Wednesday before the trial in the First Section of the Provincial Court, and the man will not go to prison because he has no prior criminal record and on the condition that he does not reoffend for five years and complete a sex education course. Furthermore, he paid the full €6,000 claimed as civil liability. The prosecution had initially requested a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for the crimes of sexual abuse and displaying pornographic material to a minor.

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.