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Transactional Sex among Youths in Post-conflict Liberia

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011
This paper presents findings on sexual risk behaviours of Liberian youths based on five focus-group discussions conducted with 6th and 7th graders (n = 36) attending an elementary/middle school in Monrovia, Liberia. The purpose of the focus-group discussions was to gain an understanding of the sexual behaviours of in-school Liberian adolescents.
Atwood, Katharine A., Kennedy, Stephen B., Barbu, Ernlee M., Nagbe, Wede, Seekey, Wede, Sirleaf, Prince, Perry, Oretha, Martin, Roland B., Sosu, Fred   +8 more
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Taboo transactions: an initial diachronic approach to translation and sex work

Translation Matters, 2022
Translation is an ever-evolving form of transmission that carries with it ideas, hopes, politics, poetics, and desires. Building upon Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s assertion that “translation is the most intimate form of reading,” the present paper explorestranslation as a form of labor that can be described as intimate through metaphor and history ...
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“Instead of Asking for Fare, You Ask Her to Pay with Sex”: Male Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Schoolgirls’ Participation in Age-Disparate Transactional Sex Relationships

Adolescents, 2023
Age-disparate transactional sex relationships are often coerced and exploitative. The gender and economic disparities between affluent men and economically disadvantaged girls often perpetuate these relationships, resulting in their exploitation.
Leso Munala, Asha Mohamed, Nene Okunna, Bethlehem Yewhalawork, Paul Kibati, Jesse Kihuha   +5 more
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Usage of the Terms Prostitution, Sex Work, Transactional Sex, and Survival Sex: Their Utility in HIV Prevention Research

Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2018
This article considers the terms prostitution, sex work, transactional sex, and survival sex, the logic of their deployment and utility to research concerned with people who are paid for sex, and HIV. The various names for paid sex in HIV research are invested in strategically differentiated positionings of people who receive payment and emphasize ...
McMillan, K, Worth, H, Rawstorne, P
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Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
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Practitioner's Pulse: A Content Analysis Approach for Examining Prevalent Topics in HRD Practitioner Periodicals

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a methodological approach for analyzing Human Resource Development (HRD) practitioner perspectives through a content analysis (CA) of periodicals. While CA has been applied to academic literature, its application to practitioner periodicals represents a methodological reorientation because these sources differ ...
Ellen Scully‐Russ, Sarah M. Ray, Henriette Lundgren   +2 more
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Transactional sex among young women in rural South Africa: prevalence, mediators and association with HIV infection

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2016
Introduction Young adolescent women in sub‐Saharan Africa are three to four times more likely to be HIV‐positive than boys or men. One of the relationship dynamics that is likely to be associated with young women's increased vulnerability to HIV is ...
Meghna Ranganathan, Lori Heise, Audrey Pettifor, Richard J Silverwood, Amanda Selin, Catherine MacPhail, Sinead Delany‐Moretlwe, Kathleen Kahn, F Xavier Gómez‐Olivé, James P Hughes, Estelle Piwowar‐Manning, Oliver Laeyendecker, Charlotte Watts   +12 more
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Transactional sex and the ‘aristo’ phenomenon in Nigerian universities

Human Affairs, 2012
Abstract ‘Aristocratic’ transactional relationships are widespread in Nigerian universities. Nigerian cultures positively sanction repressive sexual activities among single unmarried adolescents until the wedding night. Modernity has confronted this cultural prescription, as youths, particularly girls, engage in transactional exchange in
Oludayo Tade, Adeshewa Adekoya
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Profiles of White Nationalist Beliefs and Parenting in Conservative Parents: Implications for Adolescent Beliefs and Well‐Being

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Despite the growing threat of far‐right extremist and White nationalist beliefs in the United States, little is known about parenting factors associated with the development of these beliefs during adolescence. Using a person‐centered approach, this study examined how parental ideological beliefs, psychological control, and anger ...
Deborah Laible, Melinda Westfall, Sarah Borowski, Danming An, Michael Gill, Ziad Munson, Rochelle Frounfelker, Dominic Packer, Marie Schenk   +8 more
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Sexual and addictive risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infections in illegal gold miners in French Guiana: A multicenter observational study

PLoS ONE, 2022
Objectives Common representations of the world of gold mining–especially illegal–are usually negative: the activity conjures up images of drug trafficking, human exploitation, the sex trade, environmental destruction, and infectious diseases, in ...
Louise Mutricy-Hureau, Amandine Pisoni, Martha Suarez-Mutis, Amanda Figueira da Silva, Yann Lambert, Pauline Mespoulhe, Audrey Godin, Marie-Claire Parriault, Astrid Van Melle, Emilie Mosnier, Mélanie Gaillet, Céline Michaud, Roxane Schaub, Muriel Galindo, Antoine Adenis, Mathieu Nacher, Stephen Vreden, Edouard Tuaillon, Maylis Douine   +18 more
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