WHY ADOLESCENTS STRUGGLE WITH SEX
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A few weeks ago, when I was invited to Ogunlade Secondary School to speak on the topic “MENTAL HEALTH & BEHAVIOURS OF THE STUDENTS” I took time to speak about sexuality and sexual orientation; I knew that I could not possibly speak about their mental health of adolescents and offer the best solutions without talking about their primary interest – sex! Sex is the primary interest of adolescents & young adults; their major source of strength and motivation is sexual. No amount of holiness will take this away; parents and qualified educators can only help them manage it properly. Nothing takes the attention of adolescents as sexual content & conversations and while this is an opportunity for the educators to discover and make the right sex education available to them, many of them are engulfed in the blame game, demonizing kids for just expressing their curiosity about sex. We blame the devil for attacking young people sexually, but the devil does not