Bhana Deevia, Anderson Bronwynne
a School of Education , University of KwaZulu-Natal , Private Bag X03, Ashwood 3605 , Durban , South Africa.
Afr J AIDS Res. 2013 Mar;12(1):25-31. doi: 10.2989/16085906.2013.815408.
South African researchers have stressed the importance of gender and relationship dynamics underlying sexual risk, particularly among 15- to 19-year-olds. Nevertheless, we know little about these factors among young girls, who are especially at risk of HIV. The main objective in this study was to explore the ways that young girls aged 16 to 17 years give meaning to boys and boyfriends and the processes through which these relationship dynamics are shaped. In-depth interviews were conducted with a group of black girls in a working class context in Durban about their sexual relationships with boys. Dominant gender norms underlined the ways in which girls discussed these sexual relationships in relation to their lack of power and condom use. Factors such as their class, race and gender interacted with girls' vulnerability to risk of HIV. While girls were complicit in their subordination, particularly in relation to cheating boyfriends, many were critical of boys who displayed patterns of sexual domination. Efforts aimed at reducing sexual risk must work toward shifting dominant patterns of masculinity over femininity to broaden pathways of love, trust, loyalty and understanding.
南非研究人员强调了性别及性风险背后的关系动态的重要性，尤其是在15至19岁人群中。然而，我们对这些因素在年轻女孩（她们感染艾滋病毒的风险尤其高）中的情况了解甚少。本研究的主要目的是探究16至17岁年轻女孩赋予男孩和男友意义的方式，以及这些关系动态形成的过程。在德班一个工人阶级社区，对一群黑人女孩进行了关于她们与男孩性关系的深度访谈。占主导地位的性别规范突显了女孩在讨论这些性关系时与她们缺乏权力及使用避孕套情况相关的方式。她们的阶级、种族和性别等因素与女孩感染艾滋病毒的易感性相互作用。虽然女孩在自身的从属地位中难辞其咎，特别是在涉及出轨男友方面，但许多女孩批评表现出性支配模式的男孩。旨在降低性风险的努力必须致力于改变男性气质对女性气质的主导模式，以拓宽爱、信任、忠诚和理解的途径。
