Career blunders linked to lost virginity<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Losing your virginity during your teens may
\ndamage your future career, a health expert said yesterday.<\/p>\n
Handrawan Nadesul, a health columnist and counselor to many
\nteenagers, told a discussion on sex education held by Atmajaya
\nUniversity that lost virginity was one of many factors which
\ncould affect careers.<\/p>\n
He said that lost virginity could leave serious psychological
\nscars which could cause people to fail their studies and,
\ntherefore, reduce their career prospects.<\/p>\n
\"It is ironic that many of our teenagers fail in their studies
\nor to maintain their chance for future success because of
\nignorance,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"They don't know that the mistakes they commit in their
\nrelations with other people may cost them their virginity, force
\nthem to marry young, inflict disease...,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Handrawan, whose articles have appeared in many national
\npublications, said today's teenagers faced greater challenges
\nthan their parents.<\/p>\n
\"There are many unhealthy relationships... between children
\nand their parents, between people of all ages. These are
\nchallenges that continually force people to adjust to pressure,
\nconflicts, crisis...\" he said.<\/p>\n
Other speakers in the seminar were psychologist Eric Santosa
\nand sociologist Johan Suban Tukan, who revealed that a teenage
\nrelative of his had become pregnant but said that she did not
\nknow why.<\/p>\n
Johan cited a 1994 study by Atmajaya and the Police Academy
\nwhich found that almost 10 percent of the 558 students junior
\nhigh school and senior high school surveyed had had sex.<\/p>\n
A study conducted in 1992 by Bandung's Padjadjaran
\nUniversity's School of Psychology revealed that 21.5 percent of
\nyouths in the city had had extra-marital sexual relationships.
\nThe figure for this was 31.6 percent in Cirebon, 30.85 percent in
\nBogor and 26.47 percent in Sukabumi.<\/p>\n
\"Sex education is very important for helping teenagers manage
\ntheir sexual instincts, and I suggest parents start early,\"
\nHendrawan said, adding that sex education should emphasize moral
\nand religious values.<\/p>\n
Hendrawan told hundreds of youths at the discussion that young
\npeople did not have sufficient knowledge to face today's great
\nchallenges.<\/p>\n
\"The threat of disease that comes from sexual contact has
\nbecome horrifying, while techniques to prevent them have not been
\ntaught properly,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He said many Indonesian youths failed to get responsible sex
\neducation from competent people. \"Information that comes from
\nincompetent people can mislead, and even create misperceptions
\nthat could be fatal for youths' future,\" he said.<\/p>\n
But he conceded that parents and the general public had yet to
\nagree on whether youths needed to be informed on sex. (39)<\/p>",
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