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Sexual Immorality in our universities is here to stay

Isn't everyone perturbed by the high level of sexual immorality in our universities? Don't blame it on the students' failure to heed to their parents' advice not to engage in premarital sex. They would like to, but unfortunately, they can't. Blame it on the permissive and liberal environment in our campuses. The university set up provides a good pre-requisite for students to engage in unacceptable sexual activities. Though there are regulatory rules such as the 'Ten-to-Ten' rule which allows male and female students to visit each other in the hostels starting from 10am but not after 10pm, enforcement of such rules is not effective. Not even such rules can bar these hot-blooded young men and lasses whose circulatory system is laden with oversupply of sex hormones from spending as much time as they want together. Even if it means skipping classes or even risking being suspended from the university!

On joining campus, freshmen are taught such theories as the Abraham Maslow's theory about the hierarchy of human needs where they get to learn that sex is a basic human need. This absolutely changes their perception of sex and sexuality. It dawns to them that by trying to abstain, they have only been punishing themselves by not fulfilling one of their basic human needs. They even get perplexed by the fact that they've been advised so many times by their pastors and parents not to satisfy this very vital need before marriage. They curse their primary and secondary school teachers for having 'lied' to them that basic human needs comprise only food, clothing and shelter. They choose to believe what their learned professor taught them: sex is a basic need, just like food and clothing and it goes without saying then that a basic need ought to be satisfied for one to survive. And from the way university students are getting laid, you'd be forgiven for thinking that their survival depends on it.

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