Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors

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African culture perceptions on sexual activity are negatively viewed because of Western views in Americans. How can one judge the basis of someone else’s culture? What’s considered morally right or wrong to them may go against everything Africans has ever believed in. Acceptable sexual attitudes and behaviors are a direct correlation of norms within the culture.

According to Lawoyin and Kanthula (2010) unsafe sexual behaviors are the norm on South Africa. There is an awareness of certain risk factors such as unwanted pregnancy or sexuality transmitted diseases, but traditions contribute largely to unhealthy decisions made by both male and females. Although Americans perceive such behaviors negatively, understanding the context of cultures and traditions (Lawoyin and Kanthula, 2010) is detrimental before casting fault on the individual.

Risky sex is described as having more than one sexually driven relationships with more than the primary one. Cherlin (2013) talks about serial monogamy, when individual engage in sexual activity with multiple individuals in a lifetime. Further sugg...

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