TEENS AND SEX

TEENS AND SEX
During adolescence, teenagers experience sexual changes, sexual desires, and sexual demands. If their responses to these physiological and emotional changes are not channeled into socially responsible and acceptable behavour, they end up getting involved in activities that are harmful to them and lack of guidance leads them into early sexual experimentation.
Early sexual experience could lead to unwanted pregnancies, risk of contacting the sexually transmitted diseases (such as HIV/AIDS) that can permanently damage normal reproduction. Teenagers often go for abortion due to the social stigma, education concerns, and lack of financial and moral support and fear.
Oftentimes, teenagers are given rules without explanation. But if consequences of engaging in sexual act outside marriage were made known to them they would be able to take the right decision, which is ABSTENENCE.
Parents however are reluctant to talk to their wards about sex, which open chance for some adult to take advantage of their innocence and naiveness.
The idea is not to give them the knowledge of contraceptives or condoms for protected sex but to provide constructive and comprehensive education on issue of sex and how it affects their future life and career.

Blessed are the schools that have PETs (peer educators trainers) posted for the compulsory one-year service, their activities of course has been a saving grace to more teenagers in our secondary school across the nation. They give qualitative sex education and have bailed out countless secondary school students out of their ignorance.……………………………………………………………………………….Olusegun Adeniyi is a PET member serving at Playfair Memorial College, Oro-Ago, Ifelodun L.G.A, Kwara State.