IMPACT OF SEXUALITY EDUCATION AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS IN AFRICA

Musa Mohammed, Susana Zubairu & Isah Sarki

Abstract

The rate at which adolescents engaged in risky sexual behaviour in the country are alarming and now of serious concern. This has become a subject of serious concern to parents, teachers, school counsellors and administrators, all over the world, Africa and Nigeria in particular. Adolescents are found to engage in premarital sex, unprotected sex, multiple sexual partner rape, homosexual, lesbian, masturbation and other forms of risky sexual behaviour which lead to unwanted pregnancies contraction of sexually transmitted disease (STD), abortions and death. It is the concern of this paper to review these problems in the context of adolescence period of development, highlights and discuss those factors that underline the various forms of risky sexual behaviours and its effects on the adolescence. It is therefore recommended that sex education counselling with behaviour modification components should be advocated for the youths for their reconstruction to more responsible sex behaviour.

Key words: sex education, risky sexual behaviour unwanted pregnancies, Sexual Transmitted Disease (STD), Adolescents, Young adults

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