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The State, the family and language of 'social evils': re-stigmatising victims of trafficking in Vietnam.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Vietnamese Government continues to take steps to address trafficking in women and girls. However, rather than perceiving trafficking as a violation of human rights, greater attention is given by the government to its effects on society and social morals, particularly where victims have engaged in sex work in destination countries. Trafficked returnees are directly implicated in the State's approach to defining sex work as a 'social evil'. This approach reproduces the socio-economic inequality involved in trafficking and further marginalises trafficked women. Simultaneously, although Vietnamese women are often drawn...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - November 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Vijeyarasa R Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Sorrow and joy among Muslim women: the Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan, by Amineh Ahmed.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19904646 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - November 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bryce D Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Being and becoming a body: moral implications of teenage pregnancy in a shantytown in Porto Alegre, Brazil.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Most literature concerning unintended pregnancy in Brazil highlights a link between 'adolescent pregnancy', poverty, marginality and gender inequality. Young women are seen to suffer disadvantages in the course of their lives due to unplanned pregnancies at an early age. This paper questions this picture, emphasising the ways in which adolescent pregnancy is socially constructed and wrongly portrayed as being the main difficulty facing young women in marginalised communities. Instead, it suggests that anthropological and public health debates should focus on how terms such as adolescence and pregnancy are understood an...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - November 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sax L Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Changing masculinities: land-use, family communication and prospects for working with older men towards gender equality in a livelihoods intervention.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Engaging men in work towards gender equality is a critical aspect of gender and development. However, there are few documented grassroots-level approaches to undertaking such work. This paper argues that context specific stresses on local constructions of masculinity, such as unemployment, poverty and high HIV prevalence, may provide useful entry points for work with men towards gender equality. While these stresses may act to undermine men's ability to 'achieve' the requirements of traditional constructions of masculinity, particularly the role of men as providers, they simultaneously create spaces for change. In this...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - November 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jobson G Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Pregnancy loss: spontaneous and induced abortions among young women in Lusaka, Zambia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An estimated 60% of all adolescent pregnancies in low-income countries are unintended. The present study was carried out at the university hospital in Lusaka, Zambia over a four-month period in 2005. The aim was to explore experiences of pregnancy loss and to ascertain the girl's contraceptive knowledge and use and their partner's involvement in the pregnancy/abortion. Eighty-seven girls aged 13-19 years admitted to hospital for incomplete abortions were interviewed. Of these girls, 53 (61%) had had a spontaneous abortion and 34 (39%) had undergone an unsafe induced abortion. Significantly more girls with an unsafe ind...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - November 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Dahlback E, Maimbolwa M, Yamba CB, Kasonka L, Bergstrom S, Ransjo-Arvidson AB Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Narratives of sexual health risk and protection amongst young people from refugee backgrounds in Melbourne, Australia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Young people with refugee backgrounds face many challenges when making their lives in a resettlement country and their sexual and reproductive health needs are often overlooked. This paper reports on sexual health literacy amongst recently arrived young refugees settling in Melbourne, Australia. Qualitative methods were used to explore how resettled youth access, interpret and implement sexual health information, with a particular focus on how social contexts shape attitudes and understandings. Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews were conducted with 142 participants aged between 16 and 25 years. Findings re...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - November 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: McMichael C, Gifford S Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Coming of age in Second Life: an anthropologist explores the virtually human, by Tom Boellstorff.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19859850 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - October 26, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Filiault SM Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

A companion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer studies, edited by George H. Haggarty and Molly McGarry.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19851900 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - October 21, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Dyson S Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Vulnerability to STIs/HIV: sociability and the life trajectories of young women who have sex with women in Rio de Janeiro.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study aims to better understand STI/HIV-related vulnerability among self-identified lesbians and bisexual young women aged 18-26 years in two neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro. Based on ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, the paper analyses their life experiences and trajectories. Findings reveal that sexual identities and ties attributed to sexual interactions with women and men have an important role in influencing perceptions of vulnerability. The notion of STI and HIV risk is not well developed among women who have sex with women. It emerges largely in practices with bisexual female partners and thos...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - October 8, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mora C, Monteiro S Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Making 'good girls': sexual agency in the sexuality education of low-income black girls.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Critics argue that abstinence-only programmes reinforce gender inequality when they contain discourses that equate being a 'good girl' with sexual restraint. Yet they too often overlook how racial and class inequalities shape discourses about girls' sexual agency. This ethnography extends gender scholarship by analysing the racialised, classed and gendered dynamics of an abstinence-only programme for low-income black girls. It finds that black adults viewed the girls as sexually vulnerable because of racism and class inequality. They tried to mediate this vulnerability by transforming girls into sexual agents. They did...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - October 6, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Froyum CM Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Sexual health knowledge, sexual relationships and condom use among male trekking guides in Nepal: a qualitative study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
People in Nepal generally hold fairly traditional views about sex and sexual health, whilst Western tourists often have a more liberal approach towards sex and relationships. There is evidence that significant sexual interaction occurs between male trekking guides and female travellers and/or local female sex workers in Nepal. This qualitative study explored trekking guides' sexual health knowledge, sexual relationships and condom use with female trekkers and local female sex workers. A total of 21 in-depth interviews were conducted with male trekking guides. Most reported having had sexual relationships with female tr...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - October 6, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Simkhada P, van Teijlingen ER, Regmi PR, Bhatta P Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Editorial introduction.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - October 6, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sleeboom-Faulkner M Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Gendered talk about sex, sexual relationships and HIV among young people in Papua New Guinea.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study carried out in three secondary schools in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Seventy-three Year 12 students took part in eight gender-specific focus group discussions (three female and five male). Irrespective of gender, respondents predominately understood sex as being for the sole purpose of reproduction within marriage. When discussing sex and sexual relationships, young men used explicit language and referred specifically to sexual organs and activities. Young women did not. Less concerned for privacy, young men talked in public spaces and in gr...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - October 6, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kelly A, Worth H, Akuani F, Kepa B, Kupul M, Walizopa L, Emori R, Cangah B, Mek A, Nosi S, Pirpir L, Keleba K, Siba P Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Ambivalence, silence and gender differences in church leaders' HIV-prevention messages to young people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A series of semi-structured interviews on HIV prevention were conducted with South African clergy with pastoral and liturgical responsibilities from the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church and the Assemblies of God. The interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed by interpretive descriptive analysis. Three themes indicative of church leaders' approach to HIV prevention among youth emerged: dilemmas in breaking the silence on HIV and AIDS; ambivalent HIV-prevention messages from church leaders to young people; and gender differences in HIV-prevention messages. While church leaders had taken s...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - August 11, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Eriksson E, Lindmark G, Axemo P, Haddad B, Ahlberg BM Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

HIV prevention and African American youth: examination of individual-level behaviour is not the only answer.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
African American youth continue to be disproportionately represented in the incidence and prevalence of HIV despite numerous prevention efforts that target adolescent populations and declines in sexual risk behaviour among youth in general during the last decade. Several studies examining individual-level behavioural factors have failed to explain the health disparity in HIV prevalence. African American youth experience higher rates of HIV and other STIs, even when their sexual behaviour is normative. These findings suggest the need to expand beyond the examination of individual-level factors and to consider contextual...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - August 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Lightfoot MA, Milburn NG Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Gender, culture and reproductive decision-making among recent Mexican migrants in California.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study of the experiences of recent Mexican immigrants living in California explores the changing perceptions of sexual and societal norms, including gender roles and resulting reproductive decision-making, that appear to accompany the migration process. These norms are compared to those held by migrants' families of origin in Mexico. We analysed 44 semi-structured interviews conducted with a client-based population in order to identify reproductive perceptions and practices that appear to be influenced by recent migration. Using a grounded theory approach, 26 women and 18 men's narratives were analysed to understand t...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - August 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Maternowska C, Estrada F, Campero L, Herrera C, Brindis CD, Vostrejs MM Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Limits of state intervention in sex-selective abortion: the case of China.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sex-selective abortion is the major direct cause of the severe imbalance in the sex ratio at birth - contributing to the phenomenon of over 100 million 'missing' females worldwide and 40 million in China alone. Internationally as well as in China, moral condemnation and legal prohibition constitute the mainstream and official position on sex-selective abortion. This paper characterises the dominant Chinese approach to the issue as state-centred and coercion-oriented. Drawing upon case study material, the paper discusses eight major problems arising from coercive state intervention in sex-selective abortion: neglect of ...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - August 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nie JB Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

'If you start thinking positively, you won't miss sex': narratives of sexual (in)activity among people living with HIV in Nairobi's informal settlements.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Drawing on qualitative data, this paper examines narratives of sexual activity (or the lack thereof) among people living with HIV in two urban poor contexts in Kenya and the ways in which these narratives intersect with the discourse of a ubiquitous HIV-prevention strategy - the 'ABC' (Abstinence, Be Faithful, Condom Use) approach. The exploration of these narratives gives insight into the ways that the notions and meanings around sexual activity are informed and re-shaped by the experience of living with HIV in urban poor settings and into the complex ways in which the components of the ABC approach feature in the liv...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 26, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Undie CC, Ziraba AK, Madise N, Kebaso J, Kimani-Murage E Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Constructions of masculinity among a group of South African men living with HIV/AIDS: reflections on resistance and change.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explores how masculinity is constructed by a group of black South African men who self-identify as heterosexual and are living with HIV. Using discourse analysis, a construction of a normative masculinity is identified as being both idealised and perceived as a burden, in that men continually need to engage in actions that affirm their position as 'real' men. By depicting men as invulnerable and unemotional, this construction limits men from acknowledging health risks or accessing support. A second discourse constructs HIV and AIDS as disrupting normative masculinity, in that it restricts men's agency through il...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 26, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Lynch I, Brouard PW, Visser MJ Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Book Review.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19637066 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 26, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Monteiro A Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Experiences of homonegativity and sexual risk behaviour in a sample of Latino gay and bisexual men.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines the relationship between homonegativity, racism and poverty and HIV-risk-related behaviour among an Internet-based sample of 226 Latino gay and bisexual men. Participants had a median level of education at graduate school level or higher and a median monthly income in the US$1600-2400 range. Income and education in this sample are higher than participants in most other studies of Latino gay and bisexual men, providing information about HIV risk in a previously understudied segment of the population. Three negative binomial regressions were used to predict unprotected receptive anal intercourse, unprotec...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 26, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nakamura N, Zea MC Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Sexual miscommunication? Untangling assumptions about sexual communication between casual sex partners.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Miscommunication theory suggests that many incidents of heterosexual sexual violence or coercion are the result of a miscommunication between men and women. Two most commonly cited forms of miscommunication include men overestimating women's interest in sex and women giving token resistance to sex. The current study is a thematic analysis of the ways that young women and men talked about their casual sex experiences with particular attention to the presence or absence of miscommunication in their descriptions. Both women and men used a combination of three themes to describe their communication with their casual partne...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 26, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Beres M Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

'Let's talk about sex, baby': sexual communication in marriage in contemporary Vietnam.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sexual communication within marriage has been a long-neglected topic in Vietnam. The research described in this paper explored how educated husbands and wives communicate about sexuality in urban settings in contemporary Vietnam. Twenty married individuals living in Hanoi were recruited to participate through snowball sampling. Data were collected through unstructured interviews. Thematic analysis showed that respondents were able to talk with each other relatively openly about sexuality. While the issues raised were various, sexual communication decreased in quantity and quality with the length of marriage. The ambigu...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 26, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Huong BT Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Guiding change: provider voices in youth pre-abortion counselling in urban Vietnam.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pre-abortion counselling has a role in promoting safe sex practices and in preventing repeated unplanned pregnancies and repeated abortions among abortion-seeking women. Such counselling is essential in Vietnam, especially given the common use of abortion. Arguably, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the delivery of pre-abortion counselling is more urgent for young women, who have historically been ignored by State reproductive health initiatives and are increasingly exposed to transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unplanned pregnancies and abortion. This paper charts urban Vietnamese service providers' di...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 9, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nguyen HK, Martin P, Chinh NQ, Cong DD Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Induced abortion among HIV-positive women in Northern Vietnam: exploring reproductive dilemmas.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Across the world, childbearing among HIV-positive women is a socially controversial issue. This paper derives from a larger research project that investigated reproductive decisions among HIV-positive women in Quang Ninh, a northern province of Vietnam. The paper focuses on 13 women who had an abortion after being diagnosed as HIV-positive, exploring their reflections, concerns and dilemmas. The results show that the HIV-positive pregnant women sought to balance their desires for a child with their worries of being unable to fulfill their responsibilities as mothers. Even while strongly desiring to become mothers, wome...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 7, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Chi BK, Hanh NN, Rasch V, Gammeltoft T Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

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Cult Health Sex. 2009 Jul 8;:1 Authors: Stewart C PMID: 19588276 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 7, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Stewart C Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

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Cult Health Sex. 2009 Jul 6;:1 Authors: Jones T PMID: 19585313 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 5, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jones T Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

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Cult Health Sex. 2009 Jul 6;:1 Authors: Vendrell Ferre J PMID: 19585314 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 5, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Vendrell Ferre J Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

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Cult Health Sex. 2009 Jul 6;:1 Authors: Grzelinska J PMID: 19585315 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 5, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Grzelinska J Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

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Cult Health Sex. 2009 Jul 6;:1 Authors: Duncan D PMID: 19585316 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 5, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Duncan D Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Book Review.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19579136 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Barrett C Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Health discourse, sexual slang and ideological contradictions among Mozambican youth: implications for method.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Despite the urgency of improving an understanding of sexual cultures in the face of a globally devastating HIV epidemic, methodological reflection and innovation has been conspicuously absent from qualitative research in recent years. Findings from fieldwork on condom use among young people in Mozambique confirm the need to remain alert to the ideological and linguistic bias of applied methods. Interviewing young people about their sexuality using a conventional health discourse resulted in incorrect or socially acceptable answers rather than accurate information about their sexual behaviour. Young people's resistance ...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 30, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Groes-Green C Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Changes in sexual risk taking with antiretroviral treatment: influence of context and gender norms in Mombasa, Kenya.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In-depth interviews were conducted with 23 sexually-active adults receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Mombasa Kenya to understand changes in sexual behaviour after treatment initiation and factors influencing condom use. Advanced HIV disease had previously led to marked decreases in sexual desire and function. After HIV testing, numbers of partners reduced and monogamous relationships began to predominate. Receipt of ART strengthened these changes, while improving sexual health. However, concurrent sexual partnerships continue within polygamous marriage and unprotected sex occurs with regular partners, even tho...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 24, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sarna A, Chersich M, Okal J, Luchters SM, Mandaliya KN, Rutenberg N, Temmerman M Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Quality of offspring? Socio-cultural factors, pre-natal testing and reproductive decision-making in Japan.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Japan is one of the few countries to have enacted legislation on eugenics. Consequently, there has been active public debate about the practice of selective abortion for over 35 years. Furthermore, discrimination against disabilities is deep-rooted in Japanese society and the quality of offspring is a common concern. Given this background, the obvious conclusion might be that couples in Japan would have no hesitation in using reproductive technologies to ensure the best possible chance of giving birth to higher quality offspring. Yet, research indicates that when it comes to decision-making in the course of a pregnancy...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kato M Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Sex and sexuality in the Shenzhen tongzhi circle: HIV risk context and migrant men who have sex with men in China.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The paper explores the HIV risk context of migrant men who have sex with men, or tongzhi, in Shenzhen, China. Findings from 42 qualitative interviews indicate that respondents are living within a complex risk environment, characterised by the realities of migration and a 'weak ties', virtual men who have sex with men community, which offers little emotional support but many opportunities for sexual engagement. Male sex work has proliferated in Shenzhen, with respondents informally participating in a type of buy-sell circuit. Respondents' portrayal of their environment and conflicts were underscored by three interacting...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 22, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Chapman J, Cai Y, Hillier S, Estcourt C Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Sex after ART: sexual partnerships established by HIV-infected persons taking anti-retroviral therapy in Eastern Uganda.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper explores the social contexts that influence the formation and nature of sexual partnerships among people on anti-retroviral therapy (ART). We draw on the findings of a qualitative, longitudinal study of 70 people (36 women and 34 men) who have been participating in a home-based ART programme for over three years in Eastern Uganda. Since initiating ART, 32 (18 men and 14 women) participants reported having had a new partner. Five participants (4 men and 1 woman) renewed relationships with spouses with whom they had been prior to starting ART. Overall, 37 of the 70 participants had had a sexual partner after s...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 17, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Seeley J, Russell S, Khana K, Ezati E, King R, Bunnell R Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Intensive sex partying amongst gay men in Sydney.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Intensive sex partying is a framework developed to analyse specific frequent behaviours amongst a small minority of gay men in Sydney, Australia. The behaviours included a higher frequency of dance party attendance, more frequent sex, more anal sex, multiple sex partners, more unprotected anal intercourse with casual partners and more frequent drug taking. These occur at a contextual intersection between a sub-group of sexually adventurous gay men and 'party boys'. The men appear to be involved in both high-risk, adventurous sex practices and a specific form of partying distinguishable from dance partying and 'clubbing...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hurley M, Prestage G Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Gender relations and sexual communication among female students in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Young women's ability to pursue a safer-sex life in line with their wishes is crucial to their sexual health. Although some previous observations have suggested that young women's lack of ability to negotiate safer sex is due to gender power imbalances in the culture of Vietnam, studies that have tested this hypothesis explicitly and quantitatively are few and far between. The present study aimed to test the association between perceived gender relations and perceived self-efficacy in communicating sexual matters among undergraduate female students in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam. The analysis involved secondary d...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bui TC, Diamond PM, Markham C, Ross MW, Nguyen-Le TA, Tran LH Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Risk and protective factors for HIV among orphans and non-orphans in Tanzania.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objectives of this study were to identify risk and protective factors for engaging in unsafe sex among orphans and non-orphans and to explore whether risk and protection differs by gender and orphan status. The study was carried out in Kisesa ward, in the Mwanza region of Northwest Tanzania. A combination of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions were used to collect data from girls and boys as well as from the female caregivers of orphans. Findings revealed that among young people who reported having unsafe sex, those who were female orphans were more likely to state that they 'had to have sex' to acquire foo...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mmari K, Michaelis A, Kiro K Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Reproductive technologies and the quality of offspring in Asia: reproductive pioneering and moral pragmatism?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper highlights a number of theoretical issues relevant to this special issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality on the quality of offspring, including gender selection, ecofeminism, eugenics, reproductive agency, moral pioneering and reproductive pragmatism in China, India and Japan. First, it discusses various approaches to choice in sex selection, focusing on an instrumentalist and an ecofeminist approach. Second, it discusses issues of reproductive choice in the light of various concepts of eugenics and power, which have been used to characterise the relationship between the state, the individual and prenatal...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sleeboom-Faulkner M Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Choosing offspring: prenatal genetic testing for thalassaemia and the production of a 'saviour sibling' in China.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper focuses on the pre-natal genetic testing and reproductive decision-making around thalassaemia in China. Findings are based on fieldwork conducted in hospitals and research institutions, interviews with families with thalassaemia-affected children, interviews with geneticists and genetic researchers and a literature review conducted between September and November 2007. The paper aims to provide insight into the ways in which those who carry thalassaemia decide to have a test for the condition and the choices available to prospective parents. The paper also analyses factors affecting reproductive choices and t...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sui S, Sleeboom-Faulkner M Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Emerging discourse: Islamic teaching in HIV prevention in Kenya.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Islamic values portraying sex outside of marriage as sinful are often believed to contribute to HIV transmission as they reject safe-sex practices. Moreover, stigma associated with sinful behaviour is frequently assumed to interfere with access to care for those infected. In contrast, adherence to religious values such as abstinence is viewed as an explanation for the relatively low incidence of HIV infection in Islamic populations. Inspired by this debate, a study was conducted into the possibilities of using Islamic texts as a starting point for health promotion addressing HIV infection and HIV/AIDS-related stigma in...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - May 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Maulana AO, Krumeich A, Van Den Borne B Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

The lived experience of Malawian women with obstetric fistula.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Data on women who experience obstetric fistula paints an often tragic picture. The majority of previous research has focused on facility-based data from women receiving surgical treatment. The goal of this qualitative study was to gain an understanding of the lived experience of obstetric fistula in Malawi. Forty-five women living with fistula were interviewed in their homes to learn how the condition affected them and their families on a daily basis. Findings indicate that the experiences of Malawian women with fistula were more varied than anticipated. Concerning relationships with husbands and family, we found high ...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - May 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Yeakey MP, Chipeta E, Taulo F, Tsui AO Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Managing men: women's dilemmas about overt and covert use of barrier methods for HIV prevention.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Women in sub-Saharan Africa are at high risk of HIV infection and may struggle to negotiate condom use. This has led to a focus on the development of female-controlled barrier methods such as the female condom, microbicides and the diaphragm. One of the advantages of such products is their contribution to female empowerment through attributes that make covert use possible. We used focus groups to discuss covert use of barrier methods with a sample of South African women aged 18-50 years from Eastern Johannesburg. Women's attitudes towards covert use of HIV prevention methods were influenced by the overarching themes of...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - May 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: MacPhail C, Terris-Prestholt F, Kumaranayake L, Ngoako P, Watts C, Rees H Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Gender, self and pleasure: young women's discourse on masturbation in contemporary Shanghai.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines views and experiences of young Shanghai women with respect to masturbation. Through in-depth interviews with forty young women in Shanghai aged 22 to 39 from May 2004 to July 2007, the study explores women's understandings of masturbation, their desires and their lives as modern Chinese women. The focus of the analysis is on how women talk about their masturbation experiences and make sense of their experiences in the context of their sexual relationships and lifestyle choices. By analysing women's narratives about masturbation, the paper suggests that women's self-articulation is actually an engagement...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - May 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Yuxin P, Ho Sik Ying P Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Book Review.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - May 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Caceres CF Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Force and temptation: contrasting South African men's accounts of coercion into sex by men and women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Men's experience of sexual coercion is seldom the subject of research, yet it is commonly reported in all settings and increasingly evidence from South Africa points to the health risks associated with sexual coercion of men by men. Thirty-one in-depth interviews were conducted with heterosexual men aged 18-25 years who were volunteers in an HIV prevention behavioural intervention evaluation in the Eastern Cape. Men chosen included some who had reported coercion by men and women in their baseline structure interviews and some who had not. Sexual coercion by men involved abuse of trust and age-related power, temptation ...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - May 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sikweyiya Y, Jewkes R Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Blood, men and tears: keeping IUDs in place in Bangladesh.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study involved data collection from a retrospective cohort of women who had an IUD inserted 12 months earlier. In the cohort, 330 women were interviewed to identify factors associated with discontinuation. Later, 20 women, of the 103 who reported discontinuing because of excessive menstrual bleeding, were interviewed again and in depth about these issues. Of 330 women who had an IUD inserted, 47.3% had discontinued use one year post-insertion. In univariate and multivariate analyses, IUD discontinuation was strongly associated with side-effects (heavier periods; abdominal pain) and spousal factors (not discussing IUD ...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - May 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bradley JE, Alam ME, Shabnam F, Beattie TS Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Social context, sexual risk perceptions and stigma: HIV vulnerability among male sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Knowledge about sexual practices and life experiences of men having sex with men in Kenya, and indeed in East Africa, is limited. Although the impact of male same-sex HIV transmission in Africa is increasingly acknowledged, HIV prevention initiatives remain focused largely on heterosexual and mother-to-child transmission. Using data from ten in-depth interviews and three focus group discussions (36 men), this analysis explores social and behavioural determinants of sexual risks among men who sell sex to men in Mombasa, Kenya. Analysis showed a range and variation of men by age and social class. First male same-sex expe...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - May 28, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Okal J, Luchters S, Geibel S, Chersich MF, Lango D, Temmerman M Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals

Empowering teenagers to prevent pregnancy: lessons from South Africa.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Reducing rates of teenage pregnancy is an important part of the agenda of action for meeting most of the Millenium Development Goals. South Africa has important lessons for other countries in this regard as the rate of teenage pregnancy is high but has declined very substantially over the last twenty years. The country experiences waves of moral panic about teenage pregnancy, with assertions that current problems are rooted in accepting or even encouraging the sexual appetites of young people rather than sternly disciplining them. In this paper, we argue that the key to success in teenage pregnancy reduction has been a...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - May 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jewkes R, Morrell R, Christofides N Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: journals