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The sexual scripts of Kenyan young people and HIV prevention
Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale,Melanie D. Gallant,Chris Brouillard-Coyle,D. A. N. Holland,Karen Metcalfe,Janet Wildish,Mary Gichuru +6 more
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The scripting of sexual encounters among young people in Kenyan is described using results of 28 focus group discussions conducted with young people attending primary school standard 7, from four different ethnic groups and living in 22 different communities.Abstract:
The scripting of sexual encounters among young people in Kenyan is described using results of 28 focus group discussions conducted with young people attending primary school standard 7, from four different ethnic groups and living in 22 different communities. Sexual encounters were described as both mundane and inevitable and followed a predetermined scripted sequence of events and interactions in which girls and boys played complementary roles. These scripts were set within discourses of force and the exchange of gifts for sex. The gendered nature of the script and its social and cultural foundations are discussed. Potential strategies for developing HIV prevention programming are discussed from the perspective of existing sexual scripts.read more
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Condoms in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Quasi-experimental evaluation of a national primary school HIV intervention in Kenya
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Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality
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Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality
John H. Gagnon,William Simon +1 more
TL;DR: Gagnon and Simon as mentioned in this paper argue that sexual activities, of all kinds, may be understood as the outcome of a complex psychosocial process of development and trace the ways in which sexuality is learned and fitted into particular moments in the lifecycle and in different modes of behavior.
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Sexual scripts: permanence and change.
William Simon,John H. Gagnon +1 more
TL;DR: A general introduction to scripting theory is offered, attempting to provide links between macrolevel considerations of sociocultural development and general theories of individual development.