El consentimiento de los adolescentes en el ejercicio de sus derechos sexuales.Una revisión constitucional de su importancia y una propuesta de despenalización.

Abstract

The present research had the general objective of analyzing the exercise of sexual freedom rights by minors between 13 and 17 years of age in the Babahoyo canton. Specific objectives included analyzing the doctrines that refer to the rights of sexual freedom, establishing the rights of adolescents related to their sexual development, and finally proposing a legislative reform to article 5 of article 175 of the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code. The methodology used was based on the qualitative method because it started from the study of the theoretical and doctrinal bases that refer to the sexual consent of adolescents between 13 and 17 years of age. The research showed as a result that the vast majority of respondents fully agree and agree that the exercise of sexual rights of minors between 13 to 17 years of age should be analyzed, while the minority favored the option to disagree and totally disagree. It was concluded that within the rights that adolescents have in sexual matters, the first of them is the freedom that implies the faculty they possess in relation to the disposition they have of the body. Finally, it was recommended to the National Assembly of the Republic of Ecuador, make a modification to article number 5 of article 175 of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code.