Traditional perspectives and control mechanisms of adolescent sexual behavior in Kenya

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dc.contributor.author Kioli, Felix N.
dc.contributor.author Were, Allan R.
dc.contributor.author Onkware, Kennedy
dc.date.accessioned 2017-03-07T07:10:50Z
dc.date.available 2017-03-07T07:10:50Z
dc.date.issued 2012-01
dc.identifier.citation International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 4(1), pp. 1-7 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2006- 988x
dc.identifier.uri http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/IJSA/article-full-text-pdf/C72DAD83608
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.seku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/3246
dc.description DOI: 10.5897/IJSAX11.002 en_US
dc.description.abstract The discourse of this paper is on theoretical perspectives on mechanisms applied by selected traditional Kenyan ethnic groups to induct, control and check sexual behavior of adolescents. The sexual behavior of the adolescents has been an area of concern for a long time to societies through out the globe. In Kenya, traditional societies had premised this concern on the understanding that if not checked; sexual behavior of adolescents could not only jeopardize the social order but also the overall functioning of the society. In view of this, majority of traditional Kenyan cultural groups are documented to have applied elaborate mechanisms of socializing, controlling and regulating sexual behavior of the adolescents until they became of age. These control mechanisms varied cross culturally but each society endeavored to produce a well adapted young person, with standard morals and keen to perpetuate it. While majority of the societies enacted strict restrictive measures to regulate and check adolescent sexual behavior, only one cultural group in Kenya allowed adolescents to express as well as, get involved sexually. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Academic Journals en_US
dc.subject Adolescent en_US
dc.subject sexual behavior en_US
dc.subject sexuality en_US
dc.subject traditional mechanisms en_US
dc.title Traditional perspectives and control mechanisms of adolescent sexual behavior in Kenya en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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