Socio-cultural Context Of Youth Sexuality And Related Health Issues Among College Students In Nekemte Town

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Youth sexual behavior was not given enough emphasis until recently. As a result, this segment of the rnpopulation has been at the centre of the HW pandemic around the world. The current study sought to rnexplore the sexual experiences, sexual behavior and safer/unsafe sex practices of male and female rncollege youths in the context of the HW/ AIDs pandemic in the country by placing it within the existing rnsocio-cultural context. To that end, the study investigated: college students' narrated sexual rnexperiences, their perceived sexual relations, the degree of students' engagement in negotiated safer sex practices, and factors facilitating / constraining students' initiation of sexual relationship and safer rnsex practices. rnData gathered from survey questionnaire administered among randomly chosen college students rn(N=200) in Nekemete town revealed that 34% of the students were sexually engaged. Empirical rnmaterials obtained largely from focus group discussions with 35 college students (18 male and 1 7 rnfemale) revealed that college youths were sexually engaged with one another and non- college people rnas well. Students' sexual engagement with people outside colleges included female students' sexual rnrelations with "sugar daddies" and male students' sexual experience with high school students and rnless commonly with commercial sex workers. Female and male students had generally positive rnperceptions towards the sexual relations existing amongst themselves. They were, however, critical of rnrelations female students had with "sugar daddies", and sexual affairs between male students and rncommercial sex workers. The significant number of college students' youth, as revealed by empirical rnmaterial, are in such sexual affair. The qualitative data further revealed that college female students rnrarely negotiated their sexual motives. Female students were presented as people who passively or sub rn- consciously surrender into young men's trickeries in to sex after momentary resistance. rnNotwithstanding some positive signs of safer sex practices, students' overall sexual practices were rncharacterized by unsafe sex (procrastinating HW testing, promiscuity, non/ inconsistent condom use, rnand absence of meaningful communications on sexual matters), risky behaviors including alcohol and/ rnor chat use were reported to have led the college youth to risk sexual behaviors, including sex with rnhaving commercial sex workers without condoms. rnQualitative data showed students' high level of knowledge about contraceptive methods and condom rnuse, but students' failure to translate it into protective behaviors implies the need for interventions rnbeyond provision of knowledge. Among other things, the study underlined the need to raise students; rnpositive attitudes towards safer sex practices and developing students' skills and abilities in using rncondoms and other contraceptives through peer- led education and training of life skills.

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