“Indulging in sex for Valentine’s sake is wrong”

The Advocacy Co-ordinator of the Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE), Mrs Lydia Stephens, has advised the youth against indulging in sexual activities for the purpose of expressing love during the Valentine’s Day celebration.
She said most of the youth held the notion that the expression of love for their partners was to have sex with them. “Females in particular are often made to believe that sex solidifies love in a relationship”.
Mrs Stephens made this remark when she addressed students of the Sacred Heart Technical Institute in Accra.
“A lot of boys boast about the number of girls they have had an affair with. On Valentine’s Day boys seek pleasure whiles girls seek emotional attachment”, she noted.
She further explained that Valentine’s Day generally was meant to show love and appreciation to friends and loved ones and not indulgence in sexual activities.
Mrs Stephens, therefore, advised students to be cautious during the Valentine’s Day celebrations by avoiding particularly bad friends who would lure them into participating in immoral acts.
The co-ordinator stressed the need for the students, particularly girls, to avoid strangers who engaged them in unnecessary conversations.
Such strangers, she said, often lured innocent girls into obscure places where the girls were given juicy promises and then finally abused sexually.
She indicated that sexual abuse could lead to the contraction of sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis, gonorrhoea, HIV/AIDS, and unwanted pregnancy.
Mrs Stephen charged the students to study hard in order to obtain good grades.