Violence remains a persistent challenge in South African schools, prompting investigations into underlying risk factors and mitigation strategies. However, an under-explored aspect of this violence is the potential link between the consumption of Internet porn cellphones among girls and boys, and girls' risks to sexual violence inside the classroom. To address this gap, we used focus group discussions with 14-17-year-old South African girls to examine their experiences of porn access cellphones and their accounts of sexual violence at school.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article draws on sexual citizenship theory to analyze how some lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual and queer (LGBTPQ) youth in a low socio-economic rural South African context negotiate access to inclusive sexual health education programmes and resources. Participants are students aged 19 to 32 years old at a South African university. Using in-depth individual interviews, participants reflected on their experiences of sexual health education when they were still at school.
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February 2019
This paper explores how some South African teenage fathers in rural KwaZulu-Natal engage in heterosexual relationships. Drawing on findings from a qualitative based study with twenty teenage fathers aged between seventeen and nineteen years old, we examine how they talk about two highly sexualised gatherings - umhlalaphansi (an overnight Zulu dance ceremony) and inkwari (a weekend-long rave-like party). We find that these social and cultural gatherings provide opportunities to express gender and sexuality whilst simultaneously increasing the risk for early childbearing.
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