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

Owumananam (11982) in his study also listed or identify genital opposition and sex as one of the major development of premarital sexual activity among students in the secondary school. Soyinka (1989) also described another type of adolescent sexual behaviour to be oral genital contact. People no longer take into cognizance the premarital chastity of the olden ages and what is now in vogue is the illicit sexual activity as pre-requisite to marriage. The undergraduate students are not taking to the stereotype ideas of olden days, but it is a shame and taboo for any lady and man to loose his or her virginity before they get married. Maddock (1993).
Adolescent Sexual Behaviour
    Sexual behaviour has been described as that behaviour that provides arousal and increases the chance of orgasm (Furman, 1998), Araoye and Fakeye (1998) also described sexual behaviour as specific sexual practices which includes the relationship contacts that occurs and the range and number of sexual partners within a particular period. In view of the peculiar nature of the adolescent, it is expected that adolescent will exhibit some sexual activities. Pickering (1988) observed that during adolescence, hetero sexual relationships generally develop following a fairly predictable continuum of sex play.
1.    Petting and Kissing: Petting refers to erotic physical contact which may include holding, fondling, manual stimulation or oral genital stimulation but which does not include coitus. ‘Necking’, “making out” messing around’ are other expressions of petting. Petting can become a context between the young man and woman, trying to proceed as far as is ‘respectable’ since “love” often motivates or justifies sexual behaviour. For girls, his saying “I love you” may be used as a play to engage in further sexual behaviour.
    However, petting is often not goal oriented and it may provide a form of sexual expression that offers the couple the highly valued factors of safety and enjoyment. Petting can be an opportunity for young people to experience sexual sharing while technically remaining virgins. The steps from holding hard to genital stimulation can progress with increasing emotional intimacy. Through petting, adolescents begin to learn within the contact of an interpersonal relationship about their own and their partner’s sexual responses.
2.    Sexual Liberation or Virginity: - Adolescents today are also affected by another societal influence the increase in permissive attitude towards sex. This greater tolerance for an increased expectation of sexual behaviour sometimes goes by the label sexual liberation. A dimension of this so called liberation is the considerable pressure married adolescents feel to be sexually active. While peers are most often the source of this pressure, parents may even attempt to “Push” their adolescent children into sexual activity (Anthony, 1982).
    Teenagers who resist being pressured into becoming sexually experienced run the risk of being labeled “upright” moralistic or old fashioned while teenager who respond to these pressures by becoming sexually active may feel anxious, confused or guilty (Luloff 1978). As a result of these new expectations, boys and girls in some schools or peer groups. See virginity as something to be eliminated as soon as possible.
Maturation
    Although many adolescents don’t experience sex by the age of 19 but they masturbate. Masturbation according to Churchill Livingstone’s medical dictionary is self-production of sexual excitement by friction of genitals. By this definition, one can modify masturbation as an act of self-abuse that leads to sexual excitement or organism by self-effort.
    Masturbation can serve as an important avenue for sexual expression during adolescent years. In addition to providing available out let for sexual tension, self stimulation is an excellent way to learn about one’s body and its sexual potentials.
    Teenagers can experiment with different ways of pleasuring themselves thereby increasing their self-knowledge. Infact, the rapist believe that people who do not masturbate during adolescence may be omitting an important element in their sexual development.
Sexual Activity/Sexual Relationship
    One major study (Sorenson, 1973) revealed that many adolescents (40% of non virgin adolescents) are involved in one-to-one sexually exclusive relationship slightly over half of these relationships continue for one year or more. There are some differences in monogamous relationship as compared to non-monogamous relationships. Adolescents in monogamous relationships are likely to use contraceptive consistently than young non-monogamous people.
    A frequently quoted statistic in sex research is the number of people in a given category who have engaged in “premarital sex”. As a statistic in sex defined as penile-virginal activity that takes place between a couple that are married. For two reasons, however, the term is some what misleading first, as a measure that is frequently used to indicate the changing sexual or moral value of Nigerian Youth. It excludes a broad array of non-coital heterosexual and homosexual activities. Previously in the discussion, petting can include extensive non-coital types of sexual contact and that it often produces orgasm.
    In spite of these limitations of premarital sex, most of the statistics are based on this measure. Below is an available data on sexual activity during adolescence.