Chastity And Immorality Among Ghanaian Youth (PART II)

Article By : BOAKYE- BAAFI

the part one of this article was published this website on July 7, this year.

Then for Ghana to minimize the high rate of sexual

proximity, we must intensify education on how to avoid the acts of fornication

among our youth. Every religion has moral values that could be used for

enforcing the life of Chastity. The principle of decent dressing could also be

used for promoting Chastity because the kind of dressing our youth portray

these days is a threat to people who have decided to practice Chastity either

on religious or personal principles. We should not forget that there is a

saying that” Men are attracted by sight but women are attracted by touch’’. It

means that majority of men who are said to be rapists are being empowered by

the kind of dresses our ladies put up.

There is no doubt that practicing Chastity is easy

yet it has a LOT OF BENEFITS on both the Society and the individual which we

have closed our eyes on them. A large portion of Ghanaians thought that only

money and certificate make one be socially acceptable and respected which is

not true. The typical Ghanaian society does respect people who preserve their

sexual feeling before getting marriage. The fact is that many academicians and

millionaires don’t have respect in the society because of their sexual

weakness.

One way for Ghana to reduce her problem of teenage

pregnancy is to encourage the teens to practice Chastity because under Chastity,

no sexual activity is encouraged. When Chastity is practiced among our youth

the nation could save billions of cedis from her importation expenditure. The money

Ghana uses for importing condoms,

both antenatal and postnatal drugs to be used on teenage mothers could be used

for equal important activity. When Chastity is been practiced by our youth it

will go a long way of preventing the youth from being infected with sexually

transmitted disease and also reduce premature fathers in the country.

Research has

proved that people who stay away from sex can learn to the highest level they

wish to reach. I t means that when you are motivated to live a chaste life the

nation’s standard of education will be improved. These days most student’s fail

in examination because of the divided mind they experience when studying. A

student will be in a classroom thinking that he/she is concentrating on his/her

lesson, his/her mind will be out of the class rooms, reflecting on where to

meet his/her sexual friend in the night and the way to satisfy themselves. We

always hear in our daily news either on radio or television that youth are to

put up good morals, yet immorality is at increase. Things like, rape, fornication,

adultery, smoking, stealing,

bullying, gambling, robbing, insects and corruption are some of immoral acts we

hear off in our news.

However, such acts have not received much reduction.

Reason being that the negative effects of such life styles have not been unearthed.

The most interesting thing is that what chastity helps to avoid are what

immorality praised. What worried most is that if one sets in fire such person

will be put before law court but those whose act promote immorality in the

country, such as profane musicians and pastors who preach about wealth are not

put before any law court for destroying the morality of the Country. Pastors

who propagate wealth instead of the gospel should be put before court because

their preaching motivates others to praise immoral life's to earn wealth.