Real sex education

Arnold Tamani, Savusavu

I would like to express my views on the rise of sexual immoral cases in Fiji.

I believe no real sex education (Godly sex talk) is a contributing factor. Promoting the free condom drive and educating children on its use when it comes to sex is a contributing factor as this method only encourages children to engage in early sex and the number of sex partners is not a problem as long as they are using a condom, when the message behind the drive can be concluded to “if you have different sex partners just make sure to use a condom”.

I believe the best way to deliver the message of preventing these issues is real sex education (Godly sex talk) where sex is openly talked about to children. I believe Godly sex talk should say that the problem to the issue is not sex because sex was created for man and women, where sex is a unification of a man and a woman as both were created to get involved in sex, but the issue is the timing of sex and the honour given to their body for sex.

Godly sex talk must say that sex is good but the timing to get involved should be right and the time is when an individual either girl/boy has decided in their heart to choose the person (wife/husband) with whom they will spend the rest of their lives together. The one and only person whom they will share the same bed and expose their nakedness to each other in honourable intimacy where they have stood in front of God and family and said yes to each other and no to another. I believe when children grow in Godly sex talk, there will be no need for condom use as sex should be done in purity and under holy matrimony and having one sex partner for the rest of their life. Sex was only created for marriage and not for sleeping around where a boy and girl gets involved in sexual immorality developing from lust, adultery, fornication, extra marital affairs, which I believe to be the main causes of the rise in sexually transmitted diseases, teenage pregnancy, rape, child sex videos, pornography, human trafficking, suicides, prostitution and break ups in an increasing number of families.

I believe Godly sex talk should teach our children to honour their bodies and keep their body for only one special person after making their vows in front God as it was God who created sex, but he also set a time for when one person should get involved in sex. The problem is we have eliminated Godly sex talks from our schools, homes, churches and Government thus eliminating the best advice about sexual purity. If we want the message to reach our children, then we have to get Godly sex talk back in the equation again because it was only God who created our body and founded sex.

George Washington once said: “You can't have national morality apart from religious principle”.

I believe this is true because now children in our country carry in their pockets, wallets and bags a condom and are looking and searching to fulfill their sexual desires. Pornography is now easy for them to access as the digital world develops in Fiji and prostitution has flooded our streets.

Where is the love?