TRUE LOVE: To wait or not to wait; that is the question

Research indicates that most teenagers have or will engage in sexual intercourse and or oral sex prior to graduation from secondary school, most with more than one partner.

Such behaviour may result in adverse physical and psychological consequences. However, experts say empirical evidence related to mental and emotional capabilities of teenagers suggests that most teenagers lack the cognitive and emotional maturity to make wise choices regarding teenage and adolescent sex.

As a result of this fact, it is always advisable to wait. YES, WAIT! Whether it is true or not that true love waits, waiting for the right time to engage in sexual activities may be the best decision ever for adolescents and young adults.

There is really no rush. Make a commitment to keep yourself pure until marriage, at least until a time that you are able to make informed decisions about sex, and are able to deal with its consequences. Because boy does sex come with a load of consequences, psychological, emotional and otherwise.

Waiting will actually afford you the rare, but special opportunity to delay sexual debut for marriage, through abstinence. But then again, in the midst of this massive peer and societal pressure, do we see this happening with our young ones? Should this issue of abstinence still be the prevailing narrative towards saving our young ones from unnecessary burdens that come with sexual activeness? Or are there other more effective ways to deal with our children on this matter?

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