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Sexuality education, gender and health issues related to puberty rites for girls.

It is well documented that initiation or puberty rites for girls are about sexuality, sex education, and sexuality education. However, very little has been revealed about the content of the sexuality education. This article aims to describe the content of sexuality education and sexual health inform...

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Published in:Health SA Gesondheid Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 61 - 68
Main Author: Maluleke TX
Format: research Journal Article
Published: African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD 2003 Sep
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        au: Maluleke TX
        affil: Department of Public Health and Centre for Youth Studies, University of Venda; Tmaluleke@univen.ac.za
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          Puberty
          Rituals and Ceremonies In Adolescence
          Rituals and Ceremonies In Infancy and Childhood
          Sex Education
          Adolescence
          Child
          Control (Psychology)
          Culture
          Descriptive Research
          Anthropology, Cultural
          Exploratory Research
          Female
          Hygiene
          Morals
          Qualitative Studies
          Sex Factors
          Sexual Health
          Sexuality
          South Africa
          Human
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Child: 6-12 years
          Female
      ab: It is well documented that initiation or puberty rites for girls are about sexuality, sex education, and sexuality education. However, very little has been revealed about the content of the sexuality education. This article aims to describe the content of sexuality education and sexual health information given to girls during the puberty rites (vukhomba); to identify gender and health issues within the rites; and to determine the reasons that encourage girls to attend the initiation. The study was designed as a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research project. The ethnographic strategy was used to gain access to the 'vukhomba' to view and describe the rites from an emic perspective. The ethnography strategies allowed the researcher to describe the content of the sexuality education in the 'vukhomba' from the community's point of view. The findings were that sexuality education in the puberty rites for girls is limited to personal hygiene, maintaining virginity, self-control and social morals.
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