The Start of the Sexual Transition in Mali: Risks and Opportunities

Article Article scientifique Article The Start of the Sexual Transition in Mali: Risks and Opportunities eng 2008 author Sauvain-Dugerdil Claudine 24749 author Gakou Bassoutoura author Berthé Fatou author Dieng Abdoul Wahab 519620 author Ritschard Gilbert 0000-0001-7776-0903 24789 author Lerch Mathias 645070 263-280 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2008.00174.x 0039-3665 Analysis of data from a questionnaire survey of 2,000 young Malians undertaken by the authors in 2002 demonstrates that, even in underprivileged urban and rural populations, changes in sexual behavior are emerging. Among women, first sex and motherhood are taking place slightly later, and a minority is now dissociating sexuality and procreation. Our data confirm the considerable impact of female education on this transition. Girls' sexual activity before procreation is also influenced by lower religiosity. Among men, in contrast, in a traditional context of late sexual debut and fatherhood, the trend is toward earlier sexual activity and procreation. Fatherhood is delayed, however, among better-educated, wealthier, and less religious urban men, who therefore experience a longer period of sexual activity before they begin to build their own families. The study concludes with an analysis of the possible association of the sexual transition with young people's increased vulnerability resulting from their adoption of risky sexual behaviors and from unfavorable conditions surrounding the arrival of their first child. Dewey 330 Dewey 304.6/305.3/306 195 Institut de démographie et de socioéconomie TH false Studies in family planning 39 4 0abaff87-0d6a-47a2-a969-e3ff39e0c5cd Article (Published version) Public file1.pdf 702966 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut de démographie et de socioéconomie

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