THE FOURTH NEED

A student’s point of view on safe sex

Aside from food, shelter, and clothing, sex has been one of the necessities for man to survive. Ever since God created man, He gave instructions to go forth and bear children. Then Adam and Eve had children then those children had children of their own until throughout the course of history they were able to bear a plethora of people that were spread across the world. The more the people, the more discoveries were made that made humankind prosper. All thanks to sex.

Mankind began to embrace sex as a need and a want. Man loved sex so much that they gave it styles like a martial art. If martial arts have karate, judo, and tae kwon do, sex were also given styles, like the 69, wheelbarrow, and 90 degrees. If sex is a need then it’s fine to do it as long as you do it in the right place, the right time and you play it safe right?

But is there really such a thing as a safe sex in the aspect of social and health issues? If you ask me, sex could be your ticket to a one way trip to pleasure and disaster.

Sure, sex is of course needed. It is a way for mankind to survive and it is an effective way to show affection and I can’t argue with that. But there are also downfalls on this need.

If a couple had sex and the woman is expected to have a baby, then they just contributed to one of the biggest crisis today: Population explosion. They just had sex and the population is no longer safe. Not to mention most of the couples who do their thing every year that could make the population on their home as high as ten people.

Some people have nothing to think of something that would make them money, so they took advantage of the lust of humans. They made sex a business and it gave birth to prostitution. Some may say “Business is booming! Maybe I could play at the stock market with this!” It’s ridiculous, but what’s more ridiculous is using women to have sex with men they barely even know. Not a safe sex for our pretty ladies.

What could be worse is sex could be a source of murder. If someone just had sex on the spot with another, and sometime later the lady approached the guy and say “You jerk! I’m pregnant!”, they may abort the child because they don’t want their reputation to be ruined, or they just don’t seem to care. So now having sex is not safe for babies about to be made.

Sex is also the source of some of the deadliest diseases that set foot on earth: AIDS (Acute Immunodeficiency Syndrome) and STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease). To prevent this, man created birth control items, particularly the condom, a man’s “viper” wrapper. It became so popular that they put flavors on it like ice cream. I don’t know why, but if you ask me, it’s pretty stupid. But some may not consider wearing condoms safe. Kids may mistake it for a party balloon and play with it and ruin its quality, or the condom may have a defect and could be nothing more than a waste of money, or the guy just don’t know how to wear it properly.

One important thing to keep in mind is family. Having one child is enough to be a one big, happy family, so it would be best not to make it a yearly ritual.