Sexual immorality is a world wide phenomenon and one of the crucial step towards mitigating this societal ill
is to understand the reasons behind it. Findarticles (2012) sexual urge is predominant among the youths as
compared to other age. Sometimes, sex becomes uncontrollable pleasure to students, as such without self
discipline it will lead to rape and sexual misconduct, for these days boys and girls engage in pre-marital sex
and a lot of sexual immoralities. The bible clearly states that we should not commit fornication adultery or any
other sexual immoral act. Even with all these warning, boys and girls of this jet age involved in pre-marital sex
as simple as drinking water or eating food (Barker, 2014). This societal ill has wasted a lot of youths and
matured men and women today. Most young men have had their dreams shattered denied and diverted as a
result of sexual immorality.
Immorality among students is a major problem in the society today. It has been very disturbing that everybody
is expressing a deep concern over it considering the speed of its occurrence and the associated danger it has
brought to many of those addicted. The populations that fall victims to the act are students. Sexual immorality
has become the order of the day, girls no longer cherish the dignity of womanhood (Crowe, 2005 ). While boys
have lost control over their emotions; it is obvious that the youths today don’t see pre-marital sex as immoral
act but usual and normal life style. Concerning the activities of the flesh, it is good for a man not to touch a
women nevertheless, to avoid fornication let every man have his wife and every woman have her husband
(1Corin 7:1), one of the typical function of a healthy human being is a normal sexual operation and drive,
however when a young man or woman has come of age they are required to find a marriage partner, settle
down and begin to perform one of the most basic task of raising a family; it is a standard practice for a young man to be sexually attracted to a young woman, moreover when it deviate from positive standard to negative,
is regarded as perversion.
Immorality is the violation of some moral laws, norms or standard. This study on sexual immorality, with
some of the different assessment of this behavior and the effect on the people involved; will round off with
some solutions to checkmate sexual immorality among secondary school students in Afijio Local Government
Area. Let us examine the family; the living condition in the family due to poverty doesn’t help matters. A
situation where a couple live in a room with army of grown up children and the couple have sexual intercourse
in the view of their children. It will increase their sexual urge, where they learnt some immoral behaviour from
the family. Poor upbringing, moral decadence of the parents without inculcating the ethical value to the
children will influence them negatively. According to Dabhoiwala (2012) the evil company of some students
who are into cultism, pornography film, smokers, drunkards and sexual activities will propel and initiate the
adolescent into sexual immorality. Hence we discover that a good number of students do not complete their
secondary school education, while the educational pursuits of some are terminated by unwanted pregnancy,
some others are forced into unprepared father and motherhood many are suffering from Sexual Transmitted
Diseases (STD) Human Immune Virus (HIV). Sexual immorality in secondary school students have also
increase it way in raping the innocent girls in some schools (Abdullah, 2011). Sexual immorality exists
everywhere in our home. It is very difficult to get a teenager who is a virgin. Our moral value has been decline
badly, due to the influence of our cultural values in our society.
The way in which students understand sexuality education play a vital role to equipped the individuals for
future purpose, sexual education is that aspect of healthy education that enables the students to be cognizant of
this development biologically, psychological, socially and morally for maturity as a man or a woman (Decrek,
2012). Sexual education enlighten the students to be conversant with the meaning of sexuality in persons as a
form of behavior and mode of interpersonal relationship such as biological, social and cultural factors are part
and parcel (Omeje & Okeke, 2009) it assist the student to acquire knowledge, attitude skill in order to practice
a habit that is pleasant to a healthy life toward a particular available culture of the people. Culture sometimes
take our social interest, normal sexual behavior is a behavior that conforms to a group, average of people most
of us do not actually know how others behave sexually. Nigerians enjoy love sex. But the problem of some
families is concern with the issues of not discussing about sex openly to the young teenager. A clear evidence
is the Igbo culture where the young ones are not exposed to sex maters to avoid promiscuous among the young
teenagers. Teachers in schools and parents at home feel shame to talk more about sex. This is a major problem
affecting sex information to the secondary school students. The diversity of sexual behaviours across cultures
are inherent natural or unnatural, normal or abnormal. Often these labels are value judgments and evaluations
of what we feel is right or wrong Crowe (2005:198) to decide if a sexual behavior is natural or unnatural, we
must have some standard of nature against which we compare the behavior. According to (Strong et al,
2005:81) if a behavior is labeled as natural or unnatural, we typically indicate whether the behavior conforms
to our culture’s sexual norms. Our sexual norms appear naturally because we have internalized them since
birth. Hence the cultural rules have become a natural part of every individual in the western culture kissing is
an expression of intimacy, and passion for young and old, but in Nigerians, it is viewed as immorality,
especially among the Igbos where people prefer hugging for the purpose of showing intimacy.
Adolescence is the age of many secondary school students; a gigantic percentage of the students in secondary
school are mostly adolescent’s age. This stage in life, the adolescents experience numerous challenges as
students (Morris, 2011). Adolescent is a period of time when the individual will not depend on his parents to
take decisions henceforth; is the stage that the person is capable of rational, logically, makes abstract thinking,
cognizant and ability to generalize facts, outstanding with independence decisions. It is also a period when
adolescents will adjust to the conformity of societal norms value and conduct to learn the do and dos that is
pre-requisite of him during adulthood to be functional and productive, beneficial in order to live a unique and
happy life in the society (Mba, 2011). This learning take place in the family, church, school, peer groups and
the medial; the prevailing socio-emotional environment has great influence on the adolescence.
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