Likes and Comments: The Untamed Facebook Sex Education in Uganda and Kenya for Emerging Adults

Likes and Comments: The Untamed Facebook Sex Education in Uganda and Kenya for Emerging Adults

David Mugambe Mpiima, Ruth Kendagor, Sarah Wairimu Ndung'u Njau
ISBN13: 9781522518563|ISBN10: 1522518568|EISBN13: 9781522518570
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1856-3.ch007
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Mpiima, David Mugambe, et al. "Likes and Comments: The Untamed Facebook Sex Education in Uganda and Kenya for Emerging Adults." Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships among Emerging Adults in the Digital Age, edited by Michelle F. Wright, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 98-111. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1856-3.ch007

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Mpiima, D. M., Kendagor, R., & Njau, S. W. (2017). Likes and Comments: The Untamed Facebook Sex Education in Uganda and Kenya for Emerging Adults. In M. Wright (Ed.), Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships among Emerging Adults in the Digital Age (pp. 98-111). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1856-3.ch007

Chicago

Mpiima, David Mugambe, Ruth Kendagor, and Sarah Wairimu Ndung'u Njau. "Likes and Comments: The Untamed Facebook Sex Education in Uganda and Kenya for Emerging Adults." In Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships among Emerging Adults in the Digital Age, edited by Michelle F. Wright, 98-111. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1856-3.ch007

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the changes in sex education among young adults in Uganda and Kenya. Sex education was previously done through paternal aunties and grandparents. However, in the recent past, the proliferation of social media especially Facebook has seen sex education shift to this social media. Using mostly qualitative methods and limited quantitative information, the chapter explores the ease with which sex information; some laced with sexually explicit photographs, has become so easy to access. Some of the shared information is empowering say about fashion, information about safe sex, relationship advice, connecting with people of the opposite sex as well developing identity formation and the freedom about one's body through the likes and positive comments made on Photos posted on Facebook walls. However, some of this information has led to cases of risk behavior like freelance sex, exposure to nudity, sharing of nude photos with boyfriends and girlfriends as well as pathological revenge porn by jilted lovers.

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