Youths - No care No committments

IT HAS been the general perception that sex which is not attached to commitments is nothing but lust.

A recent study by National Institute of Health and Family Welfare stated that more than one third of youngsters in this new generation indulgeS in casual sex that doesn’t impose commitments. A sexual relation that doesn’t involve a promise of togetherness in the long run does involve guilt at times and one can’t really be sure if it’s because of the guilt that he/she loves someone else.

Many a times people start these relations because they feel attracted to or maybe they desire for a long term relation or may be it is just an affair which is not serious. In recent years, the total of 11 per cent in 2004 has increased to 36 per cent of boys and 11 per cent of girls who accept being involved in casual sex. Teens feel that sex is by itself an emotional connect. People need not run away from it, just because it is not ornamented with commitments and lifetime promises.

The generation is growing up so fast and so ambitiously that youngsters actually don’t have the time to devote to their commitments. All they need is an emotional connect which doesn’t tie you up in commitments, but reassures you time and again that you still have a way out of stress. One must love this emotional touch to the friendship. And I suppose still Indians hate it; still we are unable to accept.
Hugs and kisses are the signs of affection and yes, love in any form. We do hug our parents, siblings, that is love too. Any relation that shares affection and warmth has to express the same through gestures.

Above all these issues, in the country as a whole, another serious issue is that young Indians have casual sex but no sex education. The National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) is worried about the issue. But there is still some sunshine in the dark; a recent survey had a positive result which showed that awareness about HIV/AIDS has increased -- from 73% in 2001 to 85.5% at present.
It's time for younger India to decide their new rules and be prepared for the consequences.