The quest for material gain and engaging in risky sexual behaviour by young girls : a study in Sunnyside, Pretoria

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Understanding sexual behavour has become a major factor in addressing the spread of HIV. An emerging trend on the African Continent is the exchange material benefits for sexual favours from young women. Livelihood security especially in rural areas has been a driving force behind these exchanges with young women exchanging sex in order to meet basic needs of food, and shelter however various studies from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia and including South Africa have shown that young women from urban areas have become aggressive entrepreneurs or a predatory agency in seeking out men with financial advantage in order to meet lifestyle luxuries of cellphones, cash and clothing. This study has been an investigation in the Sunnyside district of Pretoria to ascertain how far will young women go in order to meet these material benefits and will they, willingly expose themselves to risky sexual behaviour in order to gain these benefits.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University