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The Causes Of Premarital Sex Among Undergraduate Students
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In this contest it is important to understand why youth engage in risky
sexual behavior and to understand the influencing factors for the
behavior. When the Dean, students’ affairs of the University of
Maiduguri whose responsibility is to regulate the conduct of students
issued a circular to checkmate sex activities amongst students, the
students felt that neither the deanery nor the university authority had
jurisdiction over their sex life. The students, who live in congested
rooms and study in a difficult academic environment, were angry, not for
the lack of facilities in the halls of residence or in the teaching
areas, but with the interference of the university management with their
personal life (Their Activities). In the night of Monday, 28
January, 2002 the students went on demonstration during which the Dean of student affair was beaten and sand thrown on him.
From
the above, one can see that matters pertaining to sex and sex
activities are held dearly by students, even when other aspects of their
health an even their future is threatened. They would rather fight for
“their personal lifeâ€. Taking out time to meditate on why in this
present time the issue of sex has become an issue of grave concern, one
would observe that the media has somehow succeeded in creating in our
subconscious, pictures of sex, sexual feeling and sexual arousal.
Careful observation would reveal the fact that on almost all television
station you turn to there is either a beautiful damsel who is half naked
intentionally showing off her cleavage, the size of her breast or her
hip just to get your attention to a particular product or service. This
is also the case for the opposite sex who would flaunt his muscle and
“six pack†just to sell underwear’s. Access to the internet (which is
actually a great thing) have heightened this issue of sexual feeling and
arousal most especially among undergraduates who at the click of every
link is beckoned to subscribe to a porn site or watch a pornographic
video, or hookup. Newspaper, Magazines and other book materials are not
left out in this jingle of sex and sexual activities. All of which
strengthens and empowers the individual to engage in premarital sex,
where everything around an individual preaches the pleasure of sex and a
desire to gratify ones id.
A look at all the facts and speculation
that has been built around premarital sex among individuals in the
society at large and among undergraduate students of the University of
Benin in particular, one can conclude that it is a matter that needs to
be addressed and causes carefully assessed to get better understanding
or insight into these causes and possibly provide alternative activities
or suggestions that can help address this issue for the benefit of the
individual, the university community and the nation at
large.
Statement of the problem
This research work
is designed to assess the cause of premarital sex among undergraduate
students of the University of Benin. From my own personal observation, a
walk and a careful survey of the environs of the university community
one would find packs of already used condoms littering the ground, even
though it is not that rampant. It could be possible that these packs was
used as instructional materials or for the primary purpose for which it
was made.
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