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Female-Driven Multiple Concurrent Sexual Partnership Systems in a Rural Part of a
Southern Tanzanian Province
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Agnarson AM
; Strömdahl S
; Levira F
; Masanja H
; Thorson AE
PLoS One
2015[]; 10
(12
): e0145297
PMID26683189
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BACKGROUND: Multiple concurrent sexual relationships are one of the major
challenges to HIV prevention in Tanzania. This study aims to explore sexual
behaviour patterns including the practice of multiple concurrent sexual
partnerships in a rural Tanzanian setting. METHODS: This qualitative study used
focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with men and women from the
community as well as ethnographic participant observations. The data was
collected during 16 months of fieldwork in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The focus group
discussions and in-depth interviews were transcribed verbatim and translated into
English. The data was analysed through the process of latent content analysis. An
open coding coding process was applied to create categories and assign themes.
FINDINGS: Mafiga matatu was an expression used in this society to describe
women's multiple concurrent sexual partners, usually three partners, which was
described as a way to ensure social and financial security for their families as
well as to achieve sexual pleasure. Adolescent initiation ceremonies initiated
and conducted by grand mothers taught young women why and how to engage
successfully in multiple concurrent sexual relationships. Some men expressed
support for their female partners to behave according to mafiga matatu, while
other men were hesitant around this behaviour. Our findings indicate that having
multiple concurrent sexual partners is common and a normative behaviour in this
setting. Economical factors and sexual pleasure were identified as drivers and
viewed as legitimate reason for women to have multiple concurrent sexual
partnerships. CONCLUSIONS: Structural changes improving women's financial
opportunities and increasing gender equality will be important to enable women to
not depend on multiple concurrent sexual partnerships for financial security.
Future research should explore how normative sexual behaviour changes as these
structural changes take place.