Mining and sex Volodia 
Regarding sexuality, Antofagasta special characteristics to the rest of the country and this is a consequence of the culture associated with mining.
In practice, this side of the world is a different way of relating between men and women. An interesting fact is that, according to Census 2002, 51.85% of the inhabitants of the region is 48.14% male and female. The national average is 50.73% of women and 49.27% \u200b\u200bmen.
"For this reason and unlike other developing regions, predominates the availability of commercial sex, "says Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Universidad Catolica del Norte (UCN), Jaime Barrientos.
"In Antofagasta and Calama is a huge argument associated with the centers of cities on places of entertainment and fun for men. There are women who work in these places and there are links on the sex trade. "
enough to study the economic announcements "are not subject to clasificaicón" El Mercurio Antofagasta, to go into the offer. It is a large sexual solicitation prompted by a floating population associated with mining.
consequence of this is that Antofagasta, for example, is the area of \u200b\u200bthe country more cases of syphilis recorded after the Metropolitan Region, evil is transmitted through sex and that affects both women and men. Last year, the region recorded 406 notifications of this disease, characterized by a wound on the genitals that do not itch or hurt, but not treated in time develop severe complications. This record represents 12% of the total 2009 (3,313 cases).
Specialist Unit of Gynecology and Human Sexuality at the University of Antofagasta, Marrodán Marcos says that syphilis is a deadly disease, but its presence reveals massive risk sexual behavior and little prevention.
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map is that today, women in mining areas are more demanding sexually that before, "they live with greater independence sexuality, and that is linked to men are located elsewhere, because the expectations for them are increasingly high, "said Barrientos.
"Thus, if the man does not respond well, the woman demanded. As a result many men, middle class, visit urologists, psychiatrists and psychologists, in order to resolve issues regarding the demands that their partners will do. " Barrientos
recognizes that male sexuality changed much because of "Viagra" for some years. "One of the major diseases associated with men is prostate cancer, hence erectile dysfunction is a common theme not only in older people, but that young people from Antofagasta. Thus the appearance of Viagra supports that male sexuality, meet new demands that women make to their partners. "
The work requirement is another focus that can also lead to sexual reluctance especially in men. "The time available for delivery today of privacy are few, and today is associated with other types of demand things get complicated even more. The challenge at the sexual lives of men and women is different from the generations old. "
These items were discussed in a report on Human Development in Chile 2010, "Gender: the challenges of equality" of the United Nations Program for Development, UNDP. Gender
The report revealed a number of aspects of the work of women today, especially with its integration and progress in society, especially in the workplace and equality of income. "While we have a president and we advance in the effective integration of women into paid employment, yet the country has huge gaps. Ie if a man has a job and a position in the company, women earn less in the same condition. "
In his experience, said he has had to talk to psychologists who work in personnel selection. "He told me that if there is a 30 year old man and a woman similar age, is engaged to the man because the woman is entering its full reproductive and eventually it could mean a problem."
"The fact that there is an increase in health plans for women in certain age, is that the state imposes restrictions on women. That remains an issue and should break with these aspects. "
Although more men to join women's historical work, there are still activities that are dominated specifically for women, such as domestic work or childcare. "The important thing is that little by little men have joined, but still prevails that women continue to be the one that takes over. Hence the challenges ahead and install the discussion of gender equality. " Mining
Barrientos said that in the above aspects the report is very relevant to our region.
"Especially for the kind of culture we live in the north as the main activity is mining, where working men and maintains a style of work per shift, in terms of height and high risk. This creates major challenges in terms of gender equality. The question is then how to move to greater equality when productive activity imposes certain conditions. "
In fact, said the conditions imposed shift the absence of the father in the case of many families in the north of the tasks associated with parenting and working life. "When the father is, he joined the media. Probably the companies make efforts to reconcile the two worlds, but in this area is still long way to go "he said.
