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The goal of this work is to identify sexual health myths (HIV and other STI's), types of attitude (related to sexuality, double standard, sexual orientation and gender identity) and risky sexual behaviors in university teacher education students of Costa Rica. This research also explores differences between men and women and the relationship among variables. The results allow to design actions regarding the promotion of healthy and satisfactory sexuality experience, as well as the addition of educative strategies concerning this field. The sample consisted of 301 students, 228 (75.7%) women y 73 (24.3%) men, aged between 17 y 36 (M = 21.5; SD = 3.08). The descriptive analysis pointed out a higher presence of myths associated with HIV and other STIs, along with attitudes of censorship and erotophobia in men. On the opposite, unprotected sexual behaviors were more prevalent among women. The results lead us to propose strategies in order to strengthen sexual education of future teachers, enabling them to address a quality emotional and sexual education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a result of historical research, documentation, and analysis of exploratory interviews, order to diagnose the state's educational of the ColégioEstadual Professor Ivan Ferreira (CEPIF). The collected data were compared with data from the educational state of Goiás, in this way, it can be observed that the school has high failure rates (19,4%), avoidance (23,16%) and distortion (69%) area of expertise of teachers. Therefore, it was found that the teaching of this school require interventions for improving these trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]