SEX AND SEXUALITY: A CULTURAL TABOO

Sex and Sexuality: A Cultural Taboo



Sex and Sexuality: A Cultural Taboo

The paper addresses the cultural sexual practices in Sub Saharan African communities, Shona Culture in Zimbabwe. The sex and cultural practices in Sub Saharan African Communities have such practices that causes harm to the women health and infect the females with incurable diseases such as HIV AIDS (Khumalo, 2009, 90-110). The discussion here will be concentrating on the practices used in the Sub Saharan Communities and their cultural roles in Zimbabwe. On many occasions when aiming to discuss the credibility of accountability regarding the HIV count, statistics, facts and figures have a relatively different picture to display, which clearly shows that even though several amends have been made in order to reduce the count of HIV AIDS amongst individuals, there's still a lot that needs to be done. (Khumalo, 2009, 90-110) HIV occurs due to excessive and unprotected sexual intercourse, substance and drug abuse through injected, used needles, receptive and insertive anal intercourse. (Khumalo, 2009, 90-110).

It is required as evidence in sub-Saharan Zimbabwe, according to several studies (Khumalo, 2009, 90-110), transmission of the AIDS virus is mainly through heterosexual sex, which means the outset that the relationship between man and woman is one of the main ways symbolic of this transmission. And if the technical issue of condom use and other medical-mechanical adjacent as prevention is important, it is clear that the symbolism of male / female ratio could well be the point of crystallization necessary Investigations into the causes of the spread of the AIDS virus, except arbitrarily decide, wrongly in our opinion, these issues do not matter in sub-Saharan Sexual practices are always analyzers, whatever the society, respective status of women and men, the nature of trade and symbolic practices that demonstrate the status and condition (Khumalo, 2009, 90-110). The people have control over their own lives and sexual choices are at the same time, affected by the rules and values based on gender that define masculinity and femininity. Those standards and gender values, culturally defined, evolving through the process of analyzing the reputation and mental development which initiates in early days of a childhood. They are determined and reinforced through practice traditional exchange of wives, widowhood rites, very temporary marriages age, female genital mutilation and the justification of violence based on gender. These practices, cultural values and traditions have a strong influence on the visible aspects of behaviour individual are important determinants of the vulnerability of women and men in relation to HIV (Khumalo, 2009, 90-110).

The Stigma and Taboos

Stigma and cultural taboos (social prohibitions), especially those related to sex and sexual activity, increase vulnerability to HIV of men and women (McGovern, 2002). The taboos associated with sex and knowledge about sex act as barriers to both acquire information on the prevention of HIV, provide treatment, care, and support they need those infected and affected by HIV (Khumalo, 2009, 90-110). The stigma associated with HIV is activated by many forces, such as ...