CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
The incidence of sexual promiscuity among female undergraduate students in Nigeria is high and increasing, though these students are given little information for making informed decision about it (Makinwa–Adebusoye, 2012). According to Onwuezobe and Ekanem (2009), young people are exposed to a barrage of information related to sexuality which will require guidance from families and schools for healthy sexual development and responsible behaviour. In an eighteen month review of abortion cases from records in a hospital in Nigeria, young people between the ages of 15-30 constituted 68% of all cases of induced abortion, 85% of them were students (Araoye, 2014). More than 50% of these students had their first sexual experience at age 15 years with multiple sexual partners (Araoye, 2014).
Wehmeier (2010) defined sexual promiscuity as a practice of having many sexual partners. There has been sexual revolution in the Nigerian society. Following this revolution, sex is now seen by youths as a recreational activity. This new orientation is fast spreading to the higher institutions with its attendant perils (Kinsey, 2015). In the view of Ngwu (2011), the young ones are easily susceptible to sexual relationships because their sexual characteristics are still in formative stages.
Sexual promiscuity as opined by Isiugo-Abanihe (2013) is prevalent among students in secondary schools and higher institutions of learning in Nigeria and may be due to erosion of various custom and observances as well as factors associated with rapid urbanization and other factors such as family background, peer pressure, media influence, economic situations and educational background of parents (Akinleye and Onifade, 2006).
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