Pendidikan Seks Sebagai Pencegahan Perilaku Seksual Beresiko pada Remaja

Abstract

Adolescence is an important period of life where there is a change from children to adults. Adolescence undergoes many changes such as physical, psychological, Â social and biological changes. Changes that occur in adolescents because of the active start and development of reproductive organ function. Until now, young people still face serious challenges that can destroy their future, namely risky sexual behavior such as premarital sex, prostitution and others that will increase the risk of teenage pregnancy, STD infection and HIV/AIDS. This can be caused by the lack of knowledge and behavior of adolescents caused by the lack of early sex education. The purpose of this activity is to provide health education on the prevention of dangerous behavior in adolescents. One of the efforts to overcome risky adolescent sex behavior is to increase information through the sex education program. This youth sex education is carried out boldly in the form of socialization on sexual risk behavior and its impacts targeting high school youth and university students in Sidoarjo, Surabaya, Mojokerto. and Gresik. After the implementation of health education activities, it was found that most of the people (94%) had good knowledge. This shows that health education about sex education in increasing public knowledge in preventing dangerous behavior in adolescents. The recommendation from this activity is that it is necessary to offer sex health education in an effort to prevent risky behavior in adolescents so that adolescent behavior will be positive so that it does not have unwanted impacts.