INDECENT EXPOSURE!

What's with the style of dressing these days?!...boys 'sagging' and girls with low-riding denim pants and all. We need to explore the reasons behind these trend of dressing. For majority, as far as they are concerned, dressing this way could lead to anti-social behaviors while from the adolescents' point of view, "they like to send social signals and labels".
Indecent exposure is fast becoming an important health-related issue in our society (Nigeria please!). How?! Do the words HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, rape, pregnancy, come to mind? Well these 'consequences' are strongly associated to scanty dressing.
Now who takes the blame for this then?...is it me or you, or the so-called modern-day parents, or the government, or even the churches? Well a lot of school of thoughts put the blame on parents and their mode of parenting. For instance, Mama go wear her 4yr old bum shorts and that same child go still continue to wear that same bum shorts till she reach 15yrs!...after dem go complain say person sexually harass am! (i can't shout abeg!)
For your information, a recent study on 283 adolescents in age group 10-19yrs, was carried out in Metropolitan Lagos which showed that there was a strong association between dressing habit and sexual comportment. It also showed that those that were scantily dressed were vulnerable to sexual acts and are likely to be more exposed to HIV/AIDS and all. The study showed that most of these adolescents wore certain clothes for various reasons and in their own words, "I want to be noticed by boys especially big boys", "I want to dress to thrill", and "Sex for cash"!
To cut matter short...what can we do to curb indecent exposure from scanty dressing? Or make we siddon look?! Because you know now...i can't shout!

Dr Chidi Ajayi: WELCOME O!

Dr Chidi Ajayi: WELCOME O!: Hi readers, Welcome to my very first blog. I am sure you are wondering what my blog site is all about. Well wonder no more! Let's just say "...

WELCOME O!

Hi readers, Welcome to my very first blog. I am sure you are wondering what my blog site is all about. Well wonder no more! Let's just say "I am a concerned citizen of teenagers health and the environment in which they live". For the sake of our lay readers, I will be using a lot terminologies such as adolescents,teenagers and youths interchangeably. And when I use these terms, I am referring to people who fall in the age category of 10yrs and 24yrs. I'd like you to look around you. Can you honestly nod your head and say you like how the youth are turning out to be, especially our Nigerian youth?! Spiritually, physically,socially and even emotionally...not commendable. But who is to blame?...is it the family, society or Government? Me O! I don't know sha because me sef, I am a partaker in the blame. Finally,to cut the long story short, my blog site will reveal, highlight and enlighten my readers on some of, if not most of the health and health related problems our youths are facing. Such issues would include, early marriage, teenage pregnancy, abortion,sexual abuse, and so on and so forth. Just stick around sha! You are very welcome to share your views while I sit on the fence because why?...I can't shout! Happy reading!