Zambian sex

In Zambia, a traditional belief maintains that a dry vagina is a sign of fidelity. Women curb natural lubrication with herbs inserted vaginally or taken orally, but doctors warn that some practices could lead to health problems. Dora says she learned about vaginal drying during her traditional marriage counseling sessions, and her husband has never complained about their sex life. Women in this southern African country have long used herbs to curb natural lubrication.

ZASWA envisions a Zambian community that embraces, acknowledges and accepts the diverse behaviours, sexual practices, lifestyles and expressions for the existence of everyone. Our mandate is focused on ensuring:. We felt the need to form an alliance that was community-led to speak to the needs and address the issues, gaps and challenges faced by the different subgroups of sex workers in Zambia. At this time, sex workers were being exploited by different local and international organisations and then left out in many intervention platforms. We decided that we were the only ones who can speak and raise awareness on our plight to increase representation, acceptance and visibility. I drafted all the organisational documents while Chantel took the lead in representing the organisation at different platforms and spaces where we shared our ideas and visions on what we were building. A year later, Chantel left and I remained running the organisation by recruiting a group of volunteers at Board, Secretariat and community levels who passionately contributed to the vision and goals of the organisation.

Faith says that the death of her parents — along with the abject poverty to which she remains subject — have robbed her of all hope of a normal life, forcing her to offer sexual services to adult clients. At her tender age, Faith must wiggle her waist lasciviously in an effort to attract customers to the Zone Night Club in Lusaka's Matero Township, where she currently works. When she is not at University Teaching Hospital receiving treatment for sexually transmitted infections, she is at one police station or another for engaging in prostitution.

Data from a study of teenage sexual activity among secondary school girls show the need for a sex education policy as a first step in controlling teenage fertility in Zambia. A large proportion of teenage females enter into close relationships with males at young ages and a high proportion of young females have engaged in sexual intercourse. Most of these sexually active females do not use family planning methods even though a large proportion of them have heard of modern methods.