The Gift of Agency: Sexual Exchange Scripts among Nigerian Youth
The Gift of Agency: Sexual Exchange Scripts among Nigerian Youth
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DOI：
10.1080/00224499.2010.499523
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Maticka-Tyndale, Eleanor
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作者：
Barnett, Jessica Penwell;Maticka-Tyndale, Eleanor
本文探讨的做法，直接交换商品性交使用的数据来自36个焦点小组讨论与青年生活在农村南部尼日利亚。将这种做法概念化为性脚本，作者在性交换发生的更广泛背景下进行了演绎主题分析。将脚本理论与对付款形式的分析相结合，发现交换的文化脚本支持女孩的代理权。然而，在实践的人际层面上，这种脚本往往在与男性控制的文化脚本的冲突中失败。这种实践的形式受到内心剧本的影响（例如，性暴力是一种选择），人际资源（例如，家庭金钱）和文化剧本（例如，物质和地位带来朋友）。在最后的分析中，性交换被发现是一个既允许又限制能动性的脚本。它是那些社会和经济权力有限的人的权力利基，使他们能够寻求和获得物质商品，社会地位和性经验。它也是通过同龄人和父母的压力、贫困和性别不平等的背景下强迫发生不想要的性行为的一种手段。艾滋病毒预防的影响进行了讨论。
This article examines the practice of directly exchanging goods for sexual intercourse using data from 36 focus-group discussions with youth living in rural southern Nigeria. Conceptualizing this practice as a sexual script, the authors conduct a deductive thematic analysis framed by the broader context in which sexual exchange occurs. Combining scripting theory with an analysis of the form of the payment, it was found that the cultural script of exchange supports girls' agency. However, at the interpersonal level of practice, this script often loses out in conflict with the cultural scripting of male control. The shape of this practice is influenced by intrapsychic scripts (e.g., sexual violence is an option), interpersonal resources (e.g., family money), and cultural scripts (e.g., stuff and status bring friends). In the final analysis, sexual exchange is found to be a script that both enables and restricts agency. It is a power niche for those with limited social and economic power, enabling them to seek and access material goods, social status, and sexual experience. It is also a means of coercing unwanted sex via peer and parental pressure, poverty, and a context of gender inequality. Implications for HIV prevention are discussed.