A Whole New World by Blogger Alex

Do you even stop to read sexual violence articles anymore? I see them all of the time, and I just laugh and think to myself “another one of these – how are people so terrible? I would never think of doing something like this!” These articles may be ineffective to me, but that is only because I’ve hit a maturity level where I know the difference between right and wrong when it comes to sexual activity. I learned a lot to get to this point of sexual maturity, and it is obvious that many others have a lot of work to do if we want sexual violence to stop.


It’s easy to forget how hard it was making the adjustment from high school to college. Some of us go to college and are in a whole new world with more freedom than we’ve ever had before. Some of us don’t leave for college and feel very discouraged and angry. Either way, our lives change from being on a set high school schedule to making decisions on our own. Peer pressure is at an all-time high at this stage of our life - we are presented with new scenarios where there are opportunities to learn about drugs, alcohol and sex and don’t know what decisions are the right ones to make. These years of our lives are about learning from our bad decisions, but sometimes these decisions are more wrong than any of us could’ve ever imagined.


I’ve been in situations where I could have said “yes” to an urge instead of “no” and my life could’ve been completely altered if I made the wrong decision. How are teens supposed to know what the right decision is? I think adults forget how hard it was to grow up. We need to start offering teens more guidance or they will continue to make the wrong decisions.


We all have our sexual urges – and who knows what will happen when these urges are combined with an immature mind and a bad day… In a whole new world teens need more teachers so that they are set up for success. Parents need to be more aware of their children’s thought during this tough time in their life. College need to begin teaching mandatory classes that show the student what choices to make in common teen situations. High school health classes need to talk about this as they teach students about Sexually Transmitted Diseases. It’s up to us to make the young understand – so what are you going to do to help?