CHAPTER I

THE STUDY AND IT’S BACKGROUND

Introduction:

Pre-marital sex is any sexual activities with an opposite sex partners or a same sex

before he/she has started a marriage life. It’s characterized as being unanticipated,

unpredictable, inconsistence with values and personality uncontrollable and becoming the

common feature of adolescent. Most age groups that started pre-marital sex are adolescent

and young people. There are 1.2 billion adolescents and 1.7 billon young people in the world

today of which 85% of them live in developing countries making nearly 30% of their

population. Mostly adolescent age is a time to experiment with sex. In the course of

experimentation, adolescents often in counter high risk situation, as contracting HIV and

often exposed to unintended pregnancy and illicit abortions. For some portion the youth,

adolescent is characterized by recklessness risk seeking, sexual and drug experimentation

and lower perception of vulnerability to adverse effect of above risk behaviors. Premarital

sex and unprotected sexual practices are the major health and life threatening problem school

youths making them vulnerable to HIV unwanted pregnancy, abortion and its complication

and dropout of their education. Unsafe sex is a major threat to the health and survival of

millions of adolescents each year one in 20 adolescents contracts on HIV. Every day over 700

young people aged 10-24 become infected with HIV.

According to Procarala 2015, sex in itself, is not wrong at any age; but premarital sex may

harm the mental development of adults in several forms. Premarital sexual experiences, many a

times, leads to the misconception that sex is to be enjoyed at whatever ways possible. Forced

premarital lovemaking will lead to mental depression and dilemma. Another danger is possible

exchange of diseases; as premarital partners may not be aware of diseases that spread through
intercourses. Getting pregnant through premarital sex is another disaster. Emotional imbalances

and guilt feeling could be the result of most premarital sexual affairs.

Furthermore, when you bond to different kinds of people whom you have not made the

commitment of marriage with, besides the health risk, this likely causes emotional and

psychological imbalances which manifest themselves in the way you think and behave. For

example, feelings of emptiness, emotional insecurities, bursts of anger, misery, jealousy,

impulsiveness, anxiety, depression and even substance abuse. For this reason, it is foolish to try to

outsmart God by engaging in sex outside marriage, since you will eventually fail miserably;

psychologically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. It’s the kind of sex that leaves you

depressed and in need of more sex in order for those “feel good” hormones to be released so that

you can forget about the miserable feelings of doubt, emptiness, shame, confusion, paranoia and

distress that have taken over your mind. - Daphne Madyara May 2016

In my own opinion, this just shows that sex is apart of human nature and you can’t stop it

from happening. I’m not saying that just because it’s everywhere you have to do it but it’s an

instinct and it happens to everyone. Some people frown upon having sex before marriage because

they feel your going against everything that you were taught and what not, but really having sex

when you want is your decision and why should you be hated or judged based on your decisions?

Plus many people say they save sex until marriage because of religious beliefs but even researches

found that 88% of people that say it still end up having sex before marriage. Life is based on

finding who you are and what you want, not on what others think you should do or what you should

want. I must admit that if you do decide to have pre-marital sex at least be safe and smart about it.

There are many ways to prevent pregnancy and diseases, use protection, get on the pill, and also

go to your doctors to get checked for anything. Honestly it will be one of the best choices you can
make. In conclusion there is no wrong in having sex before marriage so live your life and don’t

regret choices you make because those are what make you who you are today.

Statement of the Problem

The general problem of the study is;

Knowledge and Practice Towards Premarital Sex and HIV

Specifically, the study sought answer to the following question:

1. What does sex mean for both of you?

2. How do you transition from “sex is wrong” to “sex is right”?

3. What does spiritually mean to you?

4. What’s your stance of abstinence?

5. Do you think it’s wrong for students to be having sex at such an early age?

Significance of the Study

The study will deemed significant to the following stakeholders:

 Students.

For all students who are not yet finish from their studies.

 Teenagers.

For the teenagers who are not ready to become parents.

Scope and Delimination of the Study

The main focus of this research was the Knowledge and Practice Towards Premarital Sex

and HIV for their knowledge on what are the various opinions of other people in this situation.

The researcher considered working on this study to find out what’s the best decisions for

those who are confused and afraid of discrimination.