ABOUT PRE-MARITAL SEX: AN ADVOCACY

WHAT IS PRE-MARITAL SEX?

Pre-Marital Sex is a sexual activity performed by people before their marriage. It is a sexual relation between two people prior to marrying each other, or a sexual activity an individual is involved prior to getting married. In many cultures and religions, pre-marital sex is considered a sin and a moral issue since it is against the true essence of marriage. On the other half, it has become accepted by certain liberal movements, especially in Western countries since the 1960s. Pre-Marital Sex have advantages, such as it helps you recognize sexual problems, which may help you to work on it or seek help. Although some of its advantages are tempting you to agree on this issue, this study/advocacy will mainly focus on the disadvantages of pre-marital sex and why it shouldn’t be performed.

The prevalence of premarital sex among Debretabor town high school youths was 22.5% of which 63.9% of them were males. Among those high school youths, the majority (60.2%) had their first sexual intercourse at the age of 15–19 years. The main reason for initiation of sexual intercourse was due to fell in love which accounts 48.1%, followed by sexual desire 22.2%. Predictors that are risk for premarital sex were youths who did not attend religious education [AOR = 7.4, 95% CI (3.32, 16.43)], having boy or girl friends [AOR = 9.66, 95% CI (4.80, 19.43)], drinking alcohol every day [AOR = 9.43, 95% CI (2.86, 31.14)] and less than twice a week [AOR = 2.52, 95% CI (1.22, 5.21)], watching pornography film [AOR = 5.15, 95% CI (2.56, 10.37)] and youths came from rural residing families [AOR = 0.51, 95% CI (0.27, 0.96)].