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3.62 EMBRACING PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT: Wisdom from the Field
PARTICIPATORY SEX CENSUS
(Analyzed by a group of boys in New Twapia Compound, Ndola, Zambia)
Name No. of No. of sex Ever
(not Age at times sex partners had
mentioned Age at second in the last in the last an Condom
here) Age first sex sex 3 months 3 months STI use
Never Always Sometimes
11 15 10 11 4 2 No X
12 15 11 14 1 1 No X
13 15 10 13 24 1 No X
14 18 10 12 2 1 No X
15 14 11 12 15 3 No X
16 17 7 12 10 7 No X
17 18 15 17 30 1 No X
18 15 13 14 3 3 No X
19 18 12 13 5 3 No X
10 14 7 12 Nil** 1 No X
11 17 13 16 2 2 No X
** He has a girlfriend, but he has not proposed to her so far.
Part 3
One of the important results from the above analysis was that though
some boys may be initiating sex as early as 7 or 10 years of age, there
tends to be a fairly big gap before they have sex for the second time.
Among other results, it can be seen that all the boys in this group had
initiated sex. Only one of them had not been sexually active during
the last three months. Eight out of the eleven boys had never used a
condom. Only one of the boys uses a condom regularly while two
others do so sometimes. None of these boys had ever had a STI. Five
of the boys in this group had sex with only one partner during the last
three months, while two had two partners each, three had three partners
each and one had sex with seven partners.
Participatory sex census. Lubuto Chintu, Zambia