Diary of a Pregnant Virgin (Sex Education is Key)



I come from a home with strong values and my parents were 
disciplinarians - no late night-outs, no staying out 
beyond 7pm, no standing to talk with the opposite 
sex even if he was asking for an address, when a 
kissing or pecking scene came up in a movie, that was 
the end of the movie because my parents would 
instruct us to switch off the television. 
We couldn’t talk about boys or potential boyfriends. 
As a result, everything I knew about sex education 
was from our biology teacher and few students in the 
university. 
So when I got the courage to tell my mother that I 
was pregnant, to my greatest surprise, she asked me 
“don’t you know about condoms? I thought you 
went to Unilag.”
I was baffled. So my mother expected the school 
system to teach me about sex. I felt uneasy hearing 
my mother mention the word “condom” without 
caution as the word kept ringing in my head severally and I could hear my mind saying “blood of Jesus” 
each time she mentioned “condom”. 
How was I to know about condoms, when the subject 
of sex is an abomination in my home? 
The only thing I heard was “stay away from boys or 
you get pregnant” and scarier words. 
How about when my mother told my father?
My father! My father!! I can still hear the shock in his 
voice as he screamed “JESUS” when mom told him 
that Sunday evening. He was so shocked that he 
didn’t ask me if it was true or false. How? When? 
Where?
I called my mum to the room afterwards.
“Mum, I want to say something; the truth is that I 
have not had sex with my boyfriend, we were just 
playing.”
“Hmm! So the pregnancy jumped on you abi? Tell 
that to the birds,” she said. My father had a meeting 
with my Boyfriend and my mom, I was to shy to face 
my father so I sat at the dinning. He expressed his 
disappointment to my boyfriend and later said, he 
was glad we didn’t try anything stupid such as 
considering an abortion. I looked at the ground 
immediately my father mentioned that because, I know I already attempted an abortion which failed. 

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