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Assessment Of The Causes Of Premarital Sex Among Undergraduate Students
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A roommate of mine attest to an incident where him and his friends
caught some students in the act around the dark corners in his faculty,
one thing lead to the other and the case got to the security department
University of Benin.
According to Abdullahi and Umar (2008), “Sexual
behavior among the students in our University is speculatively very
rampant and worrisome. 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 packâ€
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.
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