Issues of sex and children on our airwaves

By Helena Selby
Sex from the very onset of time, has being known to be meant for marriage. Sex is vitally important to human beings, for procreating and the continuation of the human race. It is a truism that in the olden days sex was really cherished, and it was even an abomination for one to get involved in pre-marital sex.
Our forefathers even went to the extent of banishing people, who committed sexual immorality, from the family. Offspring of such incidents were often ostracised in the community and family
Profanity was rarely heard in the community, since they did not want children to learn and practice it. In the olden days couples living in the same room with their children, used different terms and languages when it came to issues about sex.
However, modernity seems to have changed things. Of late due to the environment being polluted with profanity, children get easy access to knowledge about sex.
Apart from the internet being an intense propagator of sex, our local media, especially the electronic sector, seem to doing a great job, when it comes to profanity on the our airwaves.
Though most times these programmes are broadcasted for the purpose of adult education, its focus seems to surpass what it was really meant for. Sex on our radio transmission and broadcasting seem to be taken the better part of the morality of children.
Domestic radio stations, which were really meant to protect the decency and culture of customs and traditions, appear to be rather doing the opposite. One might blame it on democracy, which has given people the freedom of expressing themselves.
Children and sex
Sex is natural thing and that it is expected of every human being naturally to have the desire for sex, as he or she advances in age. Children at certain point in time become very curious as to what sex really is like, how it feels like, and how to get involved in it. Individual teenagers face a more immediate set of concerns. As young people approach puberty, for instance, many of them feel uncertain and uneasy, about their changing bodies, and their relationship with members of the opposite sex.
Whenever parent or guardians refuse to give children the right answers to their curiosity about sex, they turn to friends who are absolutely ignorant, for answers. As a result they are fed all kinds of wrong perceptions about how sex is really like.
Morally, it is the duty of every parent or guardian, to make known issues concerning sex to their children, especially at their adolescent stage. When parents are able to impact the maturity in sex to their children, and eradicate the naivety from them, it will go a long way to prevent them from copying blindly, certain behaviours of their peers.
Moreover, this also prevents them from indulging in unnatural means to satisfy their sexual urge, and ruin the lives.
Sex on radio
Sex education on radio is a good thing. It gives children, whose parents do not teach them, the opportunity to learn. Nevertheless whereas television adverts are trying to eradicate sex from the minds of children, some radio programmes, day in day out, bring the idea of sex into the minds of children. The problem is with parents and the programmes broadcasted at after a certain periods at night.
Though many people have the notion that these domestic stations broadcast these programmes for the sake of married couples, they also encourage youngsters who listen, to get involved in the practice of what is discussed on the radio. Though they are considered as steps to immorality, these programmes and their presenters are given awards.
About two years a year ago, on one of these programmes, guests were invited to exhibit and educate the public on how to date, sleep and cheat four persons at a time. The embarrassing aspect was they were telling the public what they do in bed with their partners. Profanity and obscenity during those periods is the rule of the day.
Effects on children
The existence of technology has brought about cheap and handy radio sets on the market. Due to the prices being very low, children buy it for their personal use.
According to Alfred Beku, a mechanical engineer in Ashaiman, he once heard his 12 year-old son talking to his friend, about the issues discussed on that programme the night before, to the extent that he was even demonstrating how everything sounded like.
To crown it all, he observed them laughing when they saw a girl of their age passing by.
For Boagye Annor, who is also a mechanical engineer, lives in a compound house where His observations were that the children listen to these programmes, when their parents feel they are already asleep, on their handy radios.
They go to the extent of even discussing how to woo a girl.
According to Annor, he feels there is nothing wrong with children talking about issues concerning sex. The problem is, instead of listening to the basis of how sex really is, they tend to listen to detailed issues, which at times most adults may be ignorant about it.
He said that he had no problem with these programmes, however, it would be better if the presentation could be changed and the profanity reduced, so that children would not be too much affected, when they accidentally happen to listen in.
Education on sex for children takes away the naivety from their minds. No wonder some children think sleeping with a virgin can cure aids. Teaching children the basic, is better than making them have access to what adults are supposed to have access to.
Outcome
According to a research organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) apart from a net increase in the rate at which children have sex, it was discovered that two out of every ten children, engage in early sex.
The broadcast of these programmes can compel children to get involved into premarital sex, and without any sort of protection. It may, as a result, lead to an increase in teenage pregnancies in the country, which creates school dropouts.
For others, who are not fortunate, they might end up being infected with sexually transmitted diseases, such as the deadly HIV/AIDS.
According to the WHO, at the end of 2007, there were 2.5 million children living with HIV around the world. 420,000 children became newly-infected with HIV in 2007.
Of the 2.1 million people, who died of AIDS during 2007, more than one in seven were children. Every hour around forty children die as a result of AIDS.
The listening of such programmes encourages some children to learn to masturbate, since they do not have any means to satisfy their sexual desires.
According to hashmi.com excess masturbation does not allow the genital organ (Penis) to develop fully. Victims become mentally and physically weak, and lack self-confidence. They develop a very irritating and frustrated temperament, and become sick of society.
Excess masturbation may lead to frequent night discharges, thereafter semen may start passing before or after urination. Nightfall does always occur at night. Occasional night discharges are not a disease, but if it happens frequently, it is undoubtedly injurious to one’s health.
To avoid frequent involuntary discharge, young men should not indulge in vulgar talks, see nude photographs, and not read sexual literature, which arouses their sexual feelings. To get rid of this bad habit one needs a very strong will power.
All the youths of today should note that masturbation is not a good habit, and they should always try to avoid it, to make their lives happier and healthier.