PREMARITAL SEX AS PERCEIVED BY SELECT CTE STUDENTS

Abstract

Technology has significantly pervaded the society, thus access of any kind of information and material be it audio or visual has been made readily available  by a “click”. With its advent, good and bad things can happen, moral or immoral, religious or villainous, and the like. One reality brought about by this is premarital sex where teenagers are the ones mostly involved. The College of Teacher Education students are not spared from these possibilities.  There is a high vulnerability for the commission of an act which is believed especially by the conservative groups as something immoral. It is for this reason that the researcher took the initiative to conduct a research which delved on the CTE students’ perception on premarital sex. Mean and simple correlation were used to statistically treat the data gathered. Having applied these tools, the researcher found out that the respondents have high level of perception or awareness on the effects of premarital sex. Course and religion are significantly  related to the respondents’ perception or awareness on premarital sex. The researcher recommends that one must be more discerning in choosing a future partner, someone who does not relish the act. Fortify awareness on the negative effects it brings and pregnancy test to unmarried students be periodically done as a requirement for enrolment.