A Mayor in Uthukela, South Africa is awarding scholarship to students not for their academic performance but for remaining virgins all through their school days. Funny, right?
The news which has gone viral has been received with mixed feelings by people across the globe. This is not the first time that people are sponsoring awards of this nature, a beauty pageantry was held in Nigeria some time last year, for virgins.
While people who support the idea may argue from the point of morality, considering the fact that the world has gone sour; I totally disagree with the idea. Here are my reasons:
1. The world has really gone sour. If virginity is the only criterion for awarding scholarship to students, how do you determine that they are still virgins? By running virginity tests on them? What of people who indulge in anal sex? Are they still part of the virgins? In other words, a girl is free to engage in every other sexual acts, provided her hymen is intact. Isn't that unreasonable?
2. The idea is just not cool. So, if Ada has a CGPA of 4.6 on the scale of 5.0 and is she's not a virgin, while Nneka who's a virgin is battling to maintain a CGPA of 2.0, the Mayor goes ahead to support Nneka. It discourages academic performance. And there's no guarantee that this will stop young girls from having sex if they want to.
3. I learnt that one of the reasons behind this idea is to save the girls the distraction brought by sex. Just a couple of questions: what about the boys? Is sex the only source of distraction? One can decide to keep a boyfriend without having sex with him and still be distracted. Another can keep a thousand and one boyfriends, sleep with all of them and still maintain her game. Yes!
Don't get me wrong. I'm not in any way at all encouraging sexual immorality. I'm just saying that it is unreasonable to use it as a criterion for helping people. Being a virgin or not is a question of choice, it shouldn't be imposed on anyone.
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