Should Premarital Sex Be Permitted

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In this 21st century, many people think that premarital sex is a form of communication between the couple. While many people seem to know about the premarital sex, there still have different viewpoints as to what defines it. According to the Oxford Dictionaries (2013), the definition of premarital sex is “sex before marriage” which is a sexual activity practice by persons occurring or existing before marriage. Thus, they believe that premarital sex will accelerate their relationship. Although most people think that premarital sex has many advantages; for example can let couples know deeply between each other, testing the degree of premarital sex with two sides, and have more experience before marriage, there are disadvantages in several ways. Firstly, opponents have been arguing that premarital sex can let couples know each other deeply. However, they already forget their religion moral and viewpoints from public. Public will be criticized on them and with a dog seeing low people’s eyes to look at them. Nowadays, there still have many parents would not agree premarital sex. Parents will strongly oppose because they still retained the traditional idea. Besides that, parents also feel that this is a humiliation for them if their children doing premarital sex. As mentioned by Janet Smith (1998), the couples are engaging in premarital sex is the main reason to cause number of unwed pregnancies increases. There will be unexpected pregnancy although they have done enough security measure. In some cultures, couples would get married since pregnancy is occurred. Since some of couples do not expect they will get marriage; therefore, the rate of divorce and single parent increases after they break up. Secondly, opponents strongly argue that they need to test the degree of premarital sex with two sides before they get married. Since some of men will not take responsible
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