Det sexuella riskbeteendets kulturella illogik

Om nicaraguanska ungdomars möjligheter att utöva makt över sitt sexliv

Abstract

This article reflects the points of departure for the project Everyday Discourses and the Cultural Construction of Sexual Risk-Taking Behavior among Adolescents in Nicaragua. By means of qualitative tools of research, not least participatory action research, the aim of the project is to produce applicable knowledge for intervention and change especially with respect to adolescent health care services. This implies increased learning about how different expressions of sexuality, attitudes to sex, sexual behavior and its complications are culturally and ideologically constructed and reproduced. Accordingly the project will explore: 1) the discourses through which sexuality is cognitively and affectively approached, understood and communicated within and through important knowledge institutions; 2) how the contents of this information is processed, understood, used and communicated among receiving adolescents and related adults; 3) the extent to which, and in what respect, different sources of direct and mediated everyday experiences in interaction possibly contribute to either stability and maintenance or disintegration and change of ruling ideas and dominant behavior regarding sex and reproduction.