Consequences Of Premarital Sexual Activities Among Secondary School Students
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE]

Effects of Premarital Sex
    According to Adebayo (1976) a Christian, beliefs that according to biblical injunctions that premarital sex before marriage is a sin and that God promises to punish those who engage in such act. He also emphasized that if during the act of premarital sex and pregnancy occurs an unwanted child would be brought into the world.
    In the social point of view, premarital sex can be regarded as a social vice that attracts negative stigma on one’s personally. Sex resulting to an unwanted pregnancy may result in ending the adolescent’s career by becoming a drop out. Also the adolescent is prone to contacting venereal diseases or sexually transmitted diseases (STD) such as syphilis, gonorrhea AIDS. 
    According to Ganiyu (2001) premarital sex is also regarded as adultery (Zina) Zina can destroy marriage and family and bring illegitimate children into the world without the benefit of a father’s support and care. These children lack parental control and they find themselves growing up with social problems. Moreover, Zina (Adultery) is the cause of spread of venereal diseases and other dangerous diseases like AIDS. This behaviour destroys the decent and respectable social standard which Allah has sent to mankind from above, on the evils of Zina (Adultery). It can be seen that it is not only a private sin but an offence against the society like stealing or committing murder. It is therefore considered not only a sin but a legal offence which is punishable under the Shariah.    
    According to Allah’s injunction in Q24:2 “As for the adulteress and the adulterer flog each of them with a hundred strip and let not compassion for them keep you from carrying out this law of Allah, if you truly believe in Allah and the last day, let a group of the believers witness their chastisement.
    According to a study carried out by Robinson (1985) the religious attitudes of students did not have direct influence on their sexual life. The work was titled “premarital sexual activities among secondary school students. It was found out that changes within the few years gap as in 1985, 40% of the female respondents opposed premarital sex while in 1970, 60% thought so.
    According to Bamgbose (1988) sex education has succeeded in exploring the most significant and important aspects of life. It satisfies our needs to have information about pregnancy natural emotion, homosexual and masturbation the use of artificial insemination and reproduction without physical contact of man and woman. Also Miles (1991) argued that to say that only girls with certain body measurement can be sexy is about intelligence as saying that the colour of a woman’s hair or skin would determine her sexual efficiency in marriage. He stressed further that the real tools necessary for a satisfying marriage sex like is within the couple’s mind and not their sexual satisfaction during premarital time. Also the marriage success depends largely on such Christian concept as character, love, concern, felicity, trust thoughtfulness, tenderness, understanding cooperation and balanced sex education.
Solution to Premarital Sex among Students
    In order to eradicate the rate of premarital sex among secondary school students the following points are to be put into consideration.
Education or Compulsory Schooling: Education is a very vital element that will help the parents to build their children and wards morally, physically, spiritually and intellectually because education has a positive effect in the moral and social upbringing of any student. Bakare (2006) emphasized that the skills students acquired in school can be helpful to them to succeed despite the challenges of today’s world. More so, a good education may help them perform excellently well in their various career choices.
Inculcate the Sense of Discipline and Respect: Discipline is training that corrects the life of our children and it includes communication. Discipline carries the thought of correction move than punishment. Although punishment may come into the picture, the children needed discipline when they were young and now that they are teenagers, they will still need some forms of it, perhaps even more, wise teenagers know that this is true because their parents are much more experienced than they are.
Provision of Guidance and Counselling Centres: The availability of guidance and counselling centre, that will teach and orientate the students generally on sex should be provided at all levels of education.
Correct and Adequate Information: Adequate information should be provided mostly in secondary schools and this could be done by well educated people in the society Misinterpretation of information or irrelevant information may lead to wrong attainment of information.