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Sexual Attitude Of Secondary School Students In Nigeria
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1.7 DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The research narrowed the scope of the study to few Secondary Schools in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State.
Ikorodu
Grammar School, Ikoyi, … The Study were limited to Senior Secondary
School Classes 2 and 3 male and female students alone because they
constituted adolescent age group of 14 – 19 years where sexual
personality traits had been quite established and pronounced for
significant study.
1.8 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1. The
importance of the study is that of revealing the sexual attitudes of
Senior Secondary School Students despite the disapproval of the society
towards pre-marital sexual behaviour.
2. To identify the source
of information about sex and how sex education in schools can prevent
pre-marital sexual activity, spread venereal diseases and teenage
pregnancy in our schools and the society at large.
3. The
findings of the study could also be used as formative evaluation
procedure to determine the direction of the programme of sex instruction
in our schools.
4. It may also serve as reference for present
and future sex education research in Nigeria, because the controversies
which its findings may generates are expected to be ground for future
research as well as awakening the realization of the need for family
life as sex education as a formal academic discipline in Nigerian
Secondary Schools.
1.9 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
Abortion: Expulsion of the foetus from the womb during the first 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Puberty: This is a period during which adolescents reach sexual maturity.
Chronological Age: In order of time in which a person is born.
Illegitimate: Not authorised by law, born of parents who are not married to each other.
Lag: Go too slow, not keep up with
Quack: Person dishonestly claiming to have knowledge and skill especially in medicine.
Rape: This is an act of forcing sexual intercourse on a woman or girl, spouse, legal husband or wife.
Venereal Disease: Disease contacted by sexual intercourses
Virgin: Girls, women, or men who has not experienced sexual union.
Hormone:
A substance which is released from special glands into the blood stream
and stimulates other glands on tissue into activity.
Heterosexual: Sexual activity and feelings direction at individual of opposite sex.
Masturbation: Stimulation of one’s body to produce sexual pleasure and orgasms.
Nocturnal Emission: Dreams involving in orgasms and ejaculation by a male often called “wet dreamâ€.
Peer Group: Individual of approximately the same age and similar social values who form groups.
Petting:
A way of expressing one’s sexual feelings or love e.g.
kissing, romance, holding, or embracing etc.
Pre-marital Sex: Engaging in sexual activities before getting married.
Trait:
An aspect of personality that is reasonably characteristic of a person
is relatively consistent overtime and distinguishes that person in some
way from other people.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined and determined sexual activities of the selected Senior Secondary School Students in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State.The actual aim of the study was to identify the attitudes of Senior Secondary School Students to sexual matters so as to serve as basis for the introduction of sex education in our secondary schools.Based on the foregoing purpose, five questions were raised and favour null hypotheses are postulated.Six Secondary Schools were randomly sampled in Ikor ... Continue reading---
