Experience of Sexual Coercion among Adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria
This study surveyed 1,025 adolescent students and apprentices in Ibadan, Nigeria, to document their sexual behaviour and experience of sexual coercion including verbal threats, unwanted touch, unwanted kiss, assault, deception, drugging, attempted rape, and rape. Sixty five per cent of male and 48%...
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Veröffentlicht in: | African journal of reproductive health 2001-12, Vol.5 (3), p.120-131 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This study surveyed 1,025 adolescent students and apprentices in Ibadan, Nigeria, to document their sexual behaviour and experience of sexual coercion including verbal threats, unwanted touch, unwanted kiss, assault, deception, drugging, attempted rape, and rape. Sixty five per cent of male and 48% of female apprentices were sexually experienced, compared to 32% of male and 24% of female students. More males than females reported sex with multiple partners and contact with a sex worker while females had exchanged sex for money and gifts. Fifty five per cent of all the subjects had been victims of at least one type of sexual coercion, the commonest being unwanted kiss and touch of breasts (47%). Although both males and females were victims of coercion, females were disproportionately affected - 68% of female students and 70% of apprentices had experienced one coercive behaviour, compared to 42% of male students and 40% of apprentices. Female apprentices fared worst, with 19% of them raped. The main perpetrators of the coercion were persons well known to the victims including neighbours, peers and boy/girlfriends. We recommend multiple intervention programs including skills training for young persons, sensitisation workshop for training health workers, and media advocacy for the public to challenge stereotypes that favour sexual coercion of adolescents. /// Cette étude a enquêté 1025 étudiants adolescents et des apprentis à Ibadan, Nigéria afin de documenter leurs comportements et leurs expériences vis-à-vis de la coercition sexuelle y comprise des menaces verbaux, des caresses non désirées, des baisers non désirés, l'agression, la trompérie, l'usage de drogues, la tentative du viol et le viol. 65% des apprentis du sexe masculin, et 48% des apprentis du sexe féminin étaient sexuellement expérimentés par rapport à 32% des étudiants du sexe masculin et 24% des étudiants apprentis du sexe féminin. Il y avait plus des garçons qui ont déclaré avoir des partenaires multiples et des rapports avec une prostituée alors que les filles s'offraient sexuellement pour l'argent et des cadeaux. 55% de tous les sujets ont été victimes d'au moins une forme de coercition sexuelle dont la plus commune a été un baiser non désiré et la caresse de seins (47%). Bien que les garçons et les filles soient victimes de la coercition, les filles sont affectées de manière disproportionnée - 68% des étudiants du sexe féminin et 70% des apprentis ont vécu un comportement coercitif par rappo |
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ISSN: | 1118-4841 2141-3606 |
DOI: | 10.2307/3583330 |