God designed sex for married couples to share with each other and to enjoy the pleasure and excitement that it holds. In today's society, teens are exposed to media that attributes to the question that roams in many adolescent minds. "Is it okay to have premarital sex?" Everyone has a conscience, a voice in their head that makes them have second thoughts and become uncertain of having sex or not. Due to media, sex is portrayed in a way that causes people to use it mainly for pleasure rather than to show affection towards the other person. The adolescent minds of teens aren't mature enough and they tend to make the wrong decisions at times. Sad to say, many relationships among teens today are excelling even more towards the direction of having sex before marriage.
People who are uncertain about their conscience being right often turn to the Bible as a resource for answers. According to the Bible, premarital sex is referred to as fornication - sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other. The Bible differentiates fornication and adultery by stating the fact that adultery involves married persons while fornication involves unmarried persons. Regardless, premarital sex is still as much of a sin as committing adultery and any other forms of sexual immortality because they involve having sexual relations with someone that you are not married to.
Teens have the right to choose what to do with their bodies. Regardless of being well educated about sex and well aware of the possible outcomes and consequences it may have, teens are vulnerable to their surroundings and give into peer pressure at times. Abstinence is simply a choice that gives teenagers the opportunity to avoid physical, emotional and psychological risks that comes from relationships involved with sexual intercourse. It strengthens your relationship by helping you to find respect for yourself and for each other. There is often a feeling of guilt, embarrassment, lack of respect, resentment and tension after engaging in premarital sex. It is an emotional experience that affects our lives in ways that we may not understand.
When deciding about having sex, safety is also put into consideration. 50 percent of the people currently affected with HIV are between the ages of 15 and 24. Contraceptives such as condoms don't significantly reduce the risk of catching sexually transmitted diseases. The risk of contracting HIV by using condoms is reduced by only 85 percent, and about 25 percent of all sexually active teens catch a sexually transmitted disease annually.
Sex is meant for re-creation, not recreation. God orders against premarital sex to protect the unmarried from unwanted pregnancies and to prevent children born to parents who don’t want them or aren’t ready for them. If all teens practiced abstinence, it would be possible to live in a world with fewer worries caused my premarital sex. Imagine a world with no sexually transmitted diseases, no single mothers, no unwanted pregnancies and no abortions. When it comes to premarital sex, abstinence is God’s only policy. It saves lives, protects babes, gives sexual relations the proper value and honors God.
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Dary,
ReplyDeleteYour essay was very good. You need alittle more evidence(statistics). And some things aren't exactly clear like (re-creation, not recreation).But other than that it was really good. It had voice details and was well organized.
-Marissa Smith
You're essay was really good and you had good ideas. Although some of your ideas should be supported by research. Such as "People who are uncertain about their conscience being right often turn to the Bible as a resource for answers." But you did support most of your ideas really well with statistics.
ReplyDeleteHi Daryenne,
ReplyDeleteYour essay seems to support the idea that abstinence is the best approach to the risks of teen sexuality. As your teammates point out, you need to support this stance with specific evidence. Most of your evidence deals with sexually transmitted diseases, but I don't think this is the major focus of your essay.
You need to provide specific statistics that show that abstinence is the most successful at controlling teen risk behavior in the area of sex.
mrs s
Hi Mrs. S,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback. I certainly do agree with all of you about the evidence. I guess that in applying the research I've done to my writing, I tried to say it in my own words. Instead of that, I think that using quotes would be appropriate.
Daryenne'Noel
Hi Daryenne,
ReplyDeleteActually, it is good to say things in your own words. What we're asking for here, though, is a bit more than that. What you need are some statistics, numbers and examples, that support your ideas about teen risk behavior.
Let me know if you have questions.
mrs s