Monday, December 1, is World AIDS Day, a day set aside since 1988 to beam the searchlight on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). There are divergent opinions and efforts on how to curb and stop the spread of HIV and AIDS. You might not agree with some of the opinions and methods, but you cannot fault the commitment of people who over the years have contributed to curbing the spread of HIV. As usual there will be various activities, including talks, tomark the day. The position canvassed by aguest on a radio show last year informed this article. He said secondary pupils should be taught how to use condoms andcontraceptives, as part of sex education, to curb the spread of AIDS because some of them are sexually active.

[b]It got me thinking; after learning how to use condoms, whose daughters are they going to sleep with? Where are they going to engage in their sexual activities since many parents will not allow it under their roofs? Which hotels let rooms to children? Are affected parents not entitled to sue such hotels? Where will they get the money to fund their amorous affairs since they do not earn incomes? Oh, okay, they can do it nicodemusly (surreptitiously) in school, uncompleted buildings, bushes and when they are home alone. If our teenage sons are going to mess around with other people’s daughters, what moral rights do we have to protect our underaged daughters from being messed around with?

Why should we introduce our daughters to contraceptives with attendant side effects including infertility? After teaching them how to use condoms/contraceptives how do they reconcile the contradictions when they pray and study portions of the Bible condemning sexual immorality especially where they are told their bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit and not for fornication? Please I need help; I need answers.[/b]

More questions, beyond the marriage ceremony and official stamp, what is the difference between teenage sex in marriage and out of marriage? Why would you crucify the lawmakers who said once a girl reaches puberty she is ripe for marriage and at the same time encourage your teenage daughters to engage in teen sex or turn a blind eye when they do so? Our daddy, Sir Gabriel Adoghe, reminded me last week that in Warri, they say “die na die.” In this case, sex na sex. Our problem with under-aged marriage is that it is disruptive; their reproductive organs might not cope with pregnancy and childbirth and they are not physically, economically and mentally ready for parenthood. When teenagers engage in sex, is this not the lot that awaits them? Encouraging teenagers to use condoms and contraceptives begs the issue. Their inexperience and anxiety will even make the effort epileptic. Campaigners against AIDS always tell us that abstinence, with mutual fidelity, remains the best form of protection; why should we teach our children to aim for bronze (use contraceptives) instead of gold (abstinence)?

One of my friends feels inhibited in parenting when it comes to the issue of sexuality because he became a parent in his teens. I tell him that the fact that he was caught in the farm does not make him the only thief; others only escaped. This should not be a stumbling block in properly molding his children. If St. Paul had allowed his defective past to inhibit him, we would have been robbed of so many great books in the Bible. As long as old things have passed away and the new has taken over, I do not see any issue or hypocrisy there. The essence of following another driver on a pothole-ridden road is to avoid the potholes he dodges and those he falls into. We should not allow our children make the mistakes we made. Okiemute (there is a time for everything) and Edirinverere (patience has rewards) are popular names in Urhoboland. We should knock the essence of such names into our children’s heads and write the spirit in their hearts rather than just giving children native names to identify them with their ethnic origins. Ultimately, our children will have their way, but let us at least have our say, so that we can be

at peace with our creator.

One major danger of encouraging children to use contraceptives is that you make them emotionally dependent on others rather than being independent. Being without spouses, money and homes of their own, they are severely handicapped in satisfying their sexual urge. If we do not encourage them to fan into flame the gift of self control God has deposited in them, we make them vulnerable; we also put their younger siblings, other children around and even domestic animals at risk of sexual abuse. If they do not start learning self control now, when are they going to learn it; after marriage? I said it before; marriage is no ticket to unbridled sex. Work, travels, ill health and many other factors mean that your spouse is not available 24/7. It is the grace of God and the gift of self control that keep faithful spouses going. We need to educate our children that sexual urge is a “burden” all humankind bears. We are all involved, except children who have not reached puberty, exceptionally gifted adults and those whose battery cells are dying or completely dead. We should help and encourage them to bear their cross, we should teach them to live responsibly.

The theme for this year is “Getting to Zero”; in other words, achieving an HIV/AIDS-free world. This is a tall order for varying reasons and there will continue to be divergent views on how to achieve it, but we must all continue to push on at individual and collective levels. The pervasive desperation to find a cure makes you to keep quiet and wait whether even methods you are opposed to will work. Meanwhile abstinence and mutual fidelity remain the best form of protection against the spread of HIV through sex.


Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/aids-teen-sex-education/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C8276310760

“Getting to Zero” rily?

I pray o

Even after all the sermon., abstinence & achieving an AIDs-free world is a tall dream. Sadly., the scourge is here..

Meanwhile abstinence and mutual fidelity remain the best form of protection against the spread of HIV through sex.

This line summarizes the writeup.
The moment we shy away from discussing sex related matters with teens, it'll probably leave them open to wrong decisions.

agree

It's alright.

Land for farm use

AIDS dont exist here in Somalia
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LONG LIVE Nairaland

#Alright

HIV

Gradually i know one day one day i will be first to comment maybe January 1stor probably Dec 31st

Very necessary, not all the "If a boy touch you, you will get pregnant" nonsense.

A friend of mine actually cried and told her mum "She had a miscarriage" (thanks to nollywood), when she started seeing her period, no sex education or preparation whatsoever.

englishmart:
teenagers dey here?

The close ur Ears and Eyes .

rhymesteey:
Gradually i know one day one day i will be first to comment maybe January 1stor probably Dec 31st

meeee too

na wa o. But abstinence is still the best policy. But for all these teens wey their sumtin de scratch up and down, That is STORY FOR THE GODS


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ok
But sex education has an advantage too.
the day I stop liking sex education for teen na when my ten years old neighbor son ask CAN CONDOM BE WASH TO USE AGAIN ??

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olu ilu

Tchew.

Teenagers and youths are committing abortion everyday... Someone is asking questions for the Gods.

Make una da der nah

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[b]HIV /AIDS is the only illness where people who are diagnosed could be perfectly healthy and are put on medication which eventually knocks out their immune system and kills them. After years of torment and spending money that goes into the pocket of the white man.

After years of denying themselves chance to have a relationship and reproduce.

Another way they control Africa's population is that the HIV stigma prevents those Africans selected to be labelled HIV positive, from having children for fear of spreading the "HIV disease"

It is a disease where hospitals are given incentives to find HIV positive patients for treatment.

Your doctors are probably as much in the dark as the rest of the population, they mainly follow guidelines handed to them by govt who follow guidelines given to them by the World Health Organisation, whose founder is also the founder of the Rockefeller Foundation (A Think Tank that advocates depopulation of Africa)

follow me please.[/b]

GenBuhari:
[size=18pt]HIV is a hoax.

The treatment is what is killing people.

Another deadly "deadly disease" the white man discovered in Africa for African

Another "deadly disease" the white man provided treatment for and making billions annually from. He is even selling us condoms so he gets paid everytime we have sex.

Condom use should also help control population of Africa.

Did you know the HIV test is just a test on antibodies in your blood and if you have 3 or more you are given a positive for HIV in Africa.
If your white you would need to have something like 30 antibodies before you could be declared HIV positive.

It is also the only test that you cannot be given a diagnosis unless they have interviewed you about your lifestyle (presumably so that those who selected to be positive would not question the validity of the test). They often disguise this interview as counselling to prepare you for the outcome.[/size]

samurairulzz:
meeee too

L ;Dls

Anytym HIV is mentioned.most people think it only transmitted tru sex..
Just live a safe,careful,healthy and Godly life thats all.
Yet To checkmate the growing rate of premarital sex,molestation,violent against children,
..the government should,as a matter of seriousness must ban por-no-graphy and anything related to it.in anyway possible..cos i can't imagine why a simple site like waptrick has pornographic contents yet u want a better thinking generation.

I know nobody is a saint but we all can be decent.#just saying my mind tho

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