By Edoamaowo Udeme
In this era, immorality has become an epidemic and nothing is as appealing and interesting as making effort to reach the hearts of children and educate them, this explains a man’s quest to correct and reorient the mindset of the youths.
Okechukwu J Okwaraekezie, felt the need to address this sad issue and create awareness by sharing his personal experience through a book, “Say No, It’s The Last Thing”.
In the book, he noted that sex and premarital sex have become an epidemic that is ravaging our generation, society and the world at large in the name of relationship as relationship is a social norm that is accepted in all spheres of life.
He asked the question, “what has changed in our world and what is the cause of the increase in moral decadence in our society today”? “How did our forefathers and fathers able to curtail moral decadence? They fell in love, had relationships, married and had children. What was their secret of success?.
Addressing masturbation, Okwaraekezie said “l learned masturbation through my peers. I grew up in a suburb and in a compound of face me I face you with my father. In that compound we had only one toilet and bathroom with so many people. In the morning, everybody will be on the queue to use the toilet and the bathroom. The elders in the compound allowed all the young boys in the compound that are going to school to bath together in the bathroom.”
” For five years , I was masturbating until I became addicted to the extent that the next thing I wanted to do was to practice premarital sex. A time came when I wanted to stop it because it was affecting me psychologically and health wise but I couldn’t”.
“This was the first time I knew the implication and harm of what I had involved myself in. I tried so many things to stop it, I used some drugs but to no avail. To the extent I even wanted to cut off my genital. All my effort to stop masturbation was fruitless….. I turned to God”.
The book addresses and proffers solution to the challenges people both young and old are facing on sex and premarital sex. To have relationship without indulging on premarital sex. The steps to follow in a relationship that will lead to marriage. What is love. How to differentiate between Love, lust and infatuation.
