Essays about: "Transactional Sexual Relationships"

Found 3 essays containing the words Transactional Sexual Relationships.

1. 1. The Path to the Soft Life: Exploring the Blesser Phenomenon in South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Maya Sofia Höjer; [2023]
   Keywords : Transactional Sexual Relationships; Blesser; Blesse; HIV; South Africa; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : South Africa has one of the highest incidences of HIV in the world and young women are disproportionately affected. Scholars have pointed to the practice of Transactional Sexual Relationships (TSR) as a driving force behind HIV incidences among young women. READ MORE

3. 2. #Blessed : the blesser phenomenon : transactional sex and intergenerational relationships in urban South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Joanne Palfreman; [2020]
   Keywords : blessees; blessers; sexual and reproductive health and rights; South Africa; transactional sex; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Relationships between women and typically older men for gifts and money in exchange for sex in South Africa are common, and known as blesser relationships. Their increasing acceptability and accessibility has been linked to negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes among young black African women. READ MORE

4. 3. "A Window of Opportunity" - A Qualitative Study of "Sex for Grades" as Social Navigation in Liberian Universities

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Anna Sjögren; Charlotte Dorph; [2014]
   Keywords : Sex for grades; Social navigation; Agency; Liberia; Universities; Gender Structures; Transactional sex; Sexual harassment; Sextortion; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to highlight the phenomenon of “Sex for Grades” in Liberian universities as an intrinsically relevant category of study by illuminating the relationships between agency and structures; structures that may be enabling or constraining. We do this by analysing how female students use their tactical agency and apply this to the theory of social navigation, a theory that has not been applied to education before. READ MORE