Teens and Premarital Sex
Adolescents enter the fertile and productive age. This means that physiologically, they have reached the maturity of the reproductive organs, both male and female adolescents of reproductive organ maturity, encouraging individuals to carry out social relations both with the same sex and with the opposite sex. They try to develop themselves through association, faith to form their peers (peer-group). Free association that is not controlled normatively and morally between teenagers of different sexes will result in sexual relations outside of marriage (pre-mital sex).
The things that encourage teens to have sex outside of marriage, according to a study conducted by the Gaiser Kaiser Family Foundation, in Santrock, 1998) are (a) mis-factors
sa courtship, (b) religiosity factor: faith life is not good, and perception of courtship: the wrong form of distribution of affection due to biological misfortune.
Sex is a form of channeling the wrong affection in the radiant period
Often teenagers have the view that the courtship period
is a time when a person can love or be loved by his lover. In this case, the form of expression of affection)
can be expressed in various ways, for example, gifting flowers, hugging, kissing and even sexual intercourse. With
This wrong assumption will also lead to wrong actions, therefore, before dating, parents should be obliged to give their teenagers the right understanding so that they do not fall into wrong actions.
fragile life of faith
A good and true religious life is characterized by understanding and obedience in carrying out religious teachings properly, without being influenced by any circumstances. Under any circumstances, people who are religious, can always placing oneself and controlling oneself so as not to do things that are contrary to religious teachings. In his heart, always remember God, because God's eyes always watch every human action.
Therefore, he will not have sexual relations with his girlfriend,before officially marrying. She will protect her boyfriend's honor. in order to avoid the act of sexual desire for a moment. For obedient individuals religion, will do that in the best possible way. On the other hand, for individuals whose faith is fragile, they tend to easily act as a cover or mask to trick other people (girlfriends), so it is not surprising that this person is most likely to have premarital sexual relations. Biological maturity factor. It can be seen that adolescence is marked by biological maturity. With biological maturity, a teenager can perform reproductive functions as
like other adults, because the function of the sexual organs has worked normally. This has the consequence that a teenager will be easily influenced by stimulation that stimulates his sexual arousal, for example, by watching pomo movies, obscene stories. Biological maturation that is not accompanied by the ability to control oneself tends to have a negative impact, namely the occurrence of premarital sexual relations during adolescent courtship. On the other hand, biological maturity, accompanied by the ability to control oneself will bring happiness teenagers in his future, because he will not have premarital sex.