One reason for sexual purity is to avoid AIDS, herpes, and other dreaded diseases. Fornication causes emotional wounds, and troubles in marriages. Think of the shame that accompanies unfaithfulness to one's husband or wife, or that comes with premarital sex. But for the Christian, the main reason is that Jesus Christ forbids it. This grieves the spiritually-minded Christian.
Parents ought to teach children to fear fornication as they fear any imaginary monster.
Their children must know about the deceit of fornication, the allure of fornication, the power of fornication, the destruction of it. Many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell . . . Children don't learn this by listening to what most have to say today. Even the advertisements on most innocent and profitable programs are sexually oriented, so that the children's opinions about sex are warped.