- Title Information
- Title
- Exchange and condom use in informal sexual relationships in urban Kenya
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Luke, Nancy
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- creator
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="published in")
- Title Information
- Title
- Economic development and cultural change
- Part Number
- Vol. 54, no. 2
- Origin Information
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Date Issued
- Jan 2006
- Date Issued
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 2006-01
- Physical Description
- Extent
- pp. 319-348
- Subject (LCSH)
- Geographic
- Kisumu (Kenya)
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Condoms
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Gender
- Subject (MESH)
- Topic
- HIV
- Subject (LCSH)
- Geographic
- Kenya
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Sexual intercourse
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Poverty
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Reproductive health
- Abstract
- This article investigates whether a market for unsafe sexual activity exists among nonmarital, noncommercial sexual relationships in a high HIV/AIDS environment. The exchange of money for sex without a condom is well known within commercial sexual partnerships, but it is unclear from the previous evidence whether markets can emerge among noncommercial relationships as well. I use data on nonmarital sexual partnerships and transfers from Kisumu, Kenya, to investigate this question. I define and measure transfers as material items given by a male to his female sexual partner, including money and nonmonetary items, such as gifts, meals, and rent. I find a strong negative relationship between the level of transfers and condom use after controlling for male fixed effects and other important female and partnership characteristics. I also find that nonmonetary transfers have the same relationship with condom use as monetary transfers. Furthermore, I test the assumption that adolescent girls are particularly disadvantaged within informal partnerships, where men can offer remarkably small amounts of money or gifts in exchange for sex without a condom. Contrary to this popular assumption, the results reveal that the trade-off between transfers and condom use does not differ between partnerships involving adolescent girls and adult females.
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.1086/497011
- Genre (aat)
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- articles