Project Materials

Impact of Sexuality Education in Reducing Unprotected Intercourse Among Adolescents in Ovia Local Government of Edo State

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the study

Sexuality education aims to educate people on a wide range of topics related to sexuality, including healthy relationships and responsibilities, the anatomy of the human sexual system, sexual activity, reproduction, reproductive rights, safe sex, birth control, and abstinence. Unprotected sex, as defined by the English Dictionary, is sexual activity that does not include the use of a condom, putting the partner at risk of contracting an STD.

Regardless of prior sex education training, research shows that adolescent females are 35% more likely than boys to engage in unprotected sex on their first sexual encounter. It has long been believed that boys are more likely to partake in dangerous behaviours, such having intercourse without protection.

High rates of teen pregnancies, an increase in the incidence of STDs, high rates of abortion-related deaths, and other issues are all related to the sexual health of Nigerian adolescents. Nigerians bear a heavy weight in terms of health issues linked to the sexual behaviour of teenagers.

Secondary infertility and the onset of cervical abnormalities in teenagers are further complications. Adolescents in particular are vulnerable to the harmful effects of engaging in sexual activity at a young age and without proper protection.

Teens who start having sexual relations are often the targets of risky behaviours that cause them harm, both emotionally and physically. Millions of teenagers disregard such dangers every year, with the help of their naiveté and a lack of parental supervision, and they end up hurting themselves as a result.

The risk of contracting HIV and other STDs increases for young guys who engage in sexual activity with males. Researchers found that the risk of contracting HIV from an infected person is at least two to five times higher than from an uninfected person when the two are sexually intimate.

Among homosexual male clinic patients evaluated for sexually transmitted diseases, one research indicated that the prevalence of rectal Chlamydia and gonorrhoea were greatest among those aged 15 to 20. Your sexual actions will have repercussions. Despite a significant drop, the United States continues to boast the highest adolescent birth rate among industrialised nations.

Approximately 25% of females will experience pregnancy by the time they reach the age of 20. Contrary to their classmates, teen moms are more likely to be impoverished, rely on public assistance, and not complete high school. They are also more likely to be in poor health. Adverse health outcomes, cognitive impairments, involvement with the child welfare and penal systems, poverty, adolescent pregnancies, and dropping out of high school are all more common among their offspring.

Taxpayers spend at least $9.4 billion a year on adolescent pregnancies, according to the National Campaign to Prevent adolescent and Unplanned Pregnancies. Research on comprehensive sex education programs has shown that they may assist young people postpone having sexual relations, decrease the frequency with which they have sexual relations,

lessen the frequency of sexual partners and boost the use of birth control and condoms. It is worth noting that there is no evidence to suggest that kids who get comprehensive sex education are more likely to engage in sexual activity, have bad sexual health outcomes, or become sexually active.

1.2 Problem Statement

Issues with the study are as follows:

Regardless of sex education teaching, 35% of young females engage in unprotected sex on their first sexual encounter.

2. Sexually active behaviour, increased sexual activity, and unfavourable sexual health consequences are more common among youth who do not get comprehensive sex education.

1.3 The Study’s Objectives

The study’s aims are as follows:

1 to know whether the Sex Education Intervention Programme can help school-aged teens who are engaging in risky sexual activities cut down on them.

2 to advocate for the need of quality youth sex education programs.

3. to determine if there is a correlation between getting comprehensive sex education and increased sexual activity, decreased risk of unfavourable sexual health outcomes, or no correlation at all.

1.4 Research questions

1. How can students in the Ovia local government of Edo state’s sex education intervention program lessen the prevalence of risky sexual practices among them?

1.5 Significance of the study

One benefit of doing interviews online rather than in person is that it will encourage youth to be honest. Comprehensive sex education programs show that these programs can help youth delay onset of sexual activity, reduce the frequency of sexual activity, reduce number of sexual partners, and increase condom and contraceptive use.

1.6 Scope/Limitations of the study

The purpose of this research is to examine how sexuality education has helped decrease teenage risk-taking in the ovia local government area of Edo state.

Study limitations

1. Financial constraint- Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview).

The researcher will be juggling this study with their other academic responsibilities, which means they are short on time. This consequently will cut down on the time devoted for the research work.

1.8 Definition of terms

Sex education: is enlightenment on issues to human sexuality which includes emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, reproductive health, reproductive rights, safe sex, birth control ad sexual abstinence.

Education: is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research

Sexuality: Sexuality includes our sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual).

Intercourse: the act carried out for procreation or for pleasure in which, typically, the insertion of the male’s erect penis into the female’s vagina is followed by rhythmic thrusting usually culminating in orgasm; copulation; coitus related adjective venereal

Unprotected intercourse: unprotected sex is an act of sexual intercourse or sodomy performed without the use of a condom, thus involving the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.

Adolescents: the period between the onset of puberty and the cessation of physical growth; roughly from 11 to 19 years of age.