Tag Archives: gender

Reconciling Gender & Justice In Religious, Traditional Practices

May 31, 2010 – 12:51 pm

When President Jacob Zuma, who already had two wives at the time, married his third wife, an international media frenzy erupted, ensuring that the issue of polygamy became an instant hot topic for global debate, writes Rosieda Shabodien in an article published in the Daily Dispatch.

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What Is A Real Man?

February 25, 2010 – 11:07 am

What is a real man? In the story below, a single Zambian man in his late thirties explains how his society’s perception of a real man has encouraged (pressured?) him to have multiple partners.  To him, being a real man means having multiple concurrent partners.

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Women Must Demand Safe Sex From Spouses

November 21, 2009 – 8:00 am

Even though the HIV prevalence rate in the sub Saharan region has been going down in the last ten years, research has shown that it remains higher in women,reports The Sunday Standard.

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Women Cheat On Their Partners Too

November 13, 2009 – 7:06 am

During our online discussions about multiple concurrent partners, an ongoing theme that has emerged is the belief that men cheat on their partners, and women do not cheat. Part of our challenge has been that most readers who responded to the posts are women, and our male readers have remained  silent even we assured them [...]

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Multiple Concurrent Partnerships Increase Risk Of HIV Infection (Mail & Guardian)

November 6, 2009 – 9:33 am

Years of working a professional nurse have convinced Seobi Matube that having more than one sexual partner is a sure way of getting HIV, reports The Mail and Guardian. “Many men sit around the table and tell false stories about how, to be men, we have to be promiscuous. But this is just an excuse [...]

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Men Also Hurt: Dealing With Gender Stereotypes Against Men

November 5, 2009 – 9:10 am

A recent discussion about why a man would cheat on a wife who is beautiful, rich and famous in her own right brought out a lot of stereotypes among the women participants, to the extent that men complained about being stereotyped. “Men are sexual predators by nature and many will step over the line whether [...]

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Guide Your Children To See Men & Women As Equals

October 20, 2009 – 11:51 am

Gender roles play a very important part in influencing people to have multiple concurrent partners. In our search on multiple concurrent partner, many men told our researchers that men were entitled to have as many women as they could/having many women demonstrated their manhood and strength.

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