When Sugar is no Longer Sweet: The Discourse of Regret in Sugar Relationships Among Female Youth in Nigeria

Mensah, Eyo; Aboh, Romanus; Nsebot, Utomobong

doi:10.1007/s12119-022-09948-8

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“…Nevertheless, it is possible that material wealth may predict the extraction of material goods in countries with high HDI. Our results suggest that economic rationale may be significantly associated with individual decisions to buy and sell sex as a commodity (Mensah et al, 2022 ; Van der Veen, 2001 ). Whether individuals are driven by extrinsic or intrinsic motivations may also play a role.…”

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Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship

Meskó,

Kowal,

Láng

et al. 2023

Arch Sex Behav

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The current study investigates attitudes toward one form of sex for resources: the so-called sugar relationships, which often involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship. The present study examined associations among attitudes toward sugar relationships and relevant variables (e.g., sex, sociosexuality, gender inequality, parasitic exposure) in 69,924 participants across 87 countries. Two self-report measures of Acceptance of Sugar Relationships (ASR) developed for younger companion providers (ASR-YWMS) and older resource providers (ASR-OMWS) were translated into 37 languages. We tested cross-sex and cross-linguistic construct equivalence, cross-cultural invariance in sex differences, and the importance of the hypothetical predictors of ASR. Both measures showed adequate psychometric properties in all languages (except the Persian version of ASR-YWMS). Results partially supported our hypotheses and were consistent with previous theoretical considerations and empirical evidence on human mating. For example, at the individual level, sociosexual orientation, traditional gender roles, and pathogen prevalence were significant predictors of both ASR-YWMS and ASR-OMWS. At the country level, gender inequality and parasite stress positively predicted the ASR-YWMS. However, being a woman negatively predicted the ASR-OMWS, but positively predicted the ASR-YWMS. At country-level, ingroup favoritism and parasite stress positively predicted the ASR-OMWS. Furthermore, significant cross-subregional differences were found in the openness to sugar relationships (both ASR-YWMS and ASR-OMWS scores) across subregions. Finally, significant differences were found between ASR-YWMS and ASR-OMWS when compared in each subregion. The ASR-YWMS was significantly higher than the ASR-OMWS in all subregions, except for Northern Africa and Western Asia.

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Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship

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Kowal,

Láng

et al. 2023

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“…This approach enabled the researchers to summarise data in a meaningful way to see themes of sexual humour that may emerge. It aims to interpret the main features of data and to offer in-depth explanation (Mensah et al, 2023). The approach also offers insights into young people's subjectivities about sexual humour and succinctly addresses these perceptions.…”

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“…The propositional content of the joke in Excerpt 2 reveals the randy nature of male politicians in Nigeria who travel far and wide in the course of their duties and engage in transactional sexual relationships with female partners. These girls are popularly known as Runs Babes who are commonly associated with consumer sex for the acquisition of luxury items and materials like mobile phones, cars, landed properties and money (Mensah et al, 2022). A humorous spice in this joke is that in the height of the man's sexual pleasure, he alerted his security guards unknowingly to the danger of being killed or wanting to die.…”

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“…Essentially, the entire gamut of her thought when she is meeting a man for the first time is about patronage or gratification which creates the impression that she is a Runs Babe (commercial sex merchant). Existing literature on this transgressive sexual practice has described it as a form of prostitution by another name (Mensah, 2020;Mensah et al, 2022;Hunter, 2002;Okonkwo, 2018). Poverty is a major driver of this sexual economy which often paints the picture of vulnerability and victimhood of young women who are usually exploited during such transactional engagements.…”

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Sexual jokes in Nigerian stand-up comedy

Mensah,

Inyabri,

Aboh

2023

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Nigerian stand-up comic artists explore emerging social, religious, and political issues as materials for comic entertainment within their performance space and community of practice. One of the resources for comic performance is the recourse to sexual contents which are deployed to reduce apprehension around stereotyped norms about sex and sexuality in the Nigerian sociocultural context. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data using social media skits, audio-visual disks and semi-structured interviews, this article examines sexual jokes as ideological texts and rhetorical devices that embody the struggle between conservatism and postmodern conceptions of sex and sexuality. It highlights the recurrent themes and creative discourses of sexual humour which stand-up comedy performers exploit as artistic tools for the engagement of gender roles, sexual myths, sexual politics and social contradictions within a vulnerable socio-political and economic context. We adopt social relief theory and incongruity theory of humour comprehension to provide a nuanced understanding of sexual jokes and the sociocultural inhibitions that surround them. The dominant themes in these jokes include male sterility, faking orgasm, commodification of sex, prostitution, rape, and the use of aphrodisiac. The results indicate that sexual jokes are circulating within the comedy performance space as forms of protest against stereotyped sexual culture. In this way, male and female comedians, working with the tools and ideology of postmodernism, help to satirise conventional sexual values and radicalise their audiences against normative construction of sex and sexuality.

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Youth Sexual Exploitation in Nigeria: Pathway Influencers and Crossroad Solutions for an Undercarpet Menace

Akinbode,

Udoh,

Eseigbe

et al. 2023

Curr Pediatr Rep

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When Sugar is no Longer Sweet: The Discourse of Regret in Sugar Relationships Among Female Youth in Nigeria

Cited by 6 publications

References 49 publications

Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship

Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship

Sexual jokes in Nigerian stand-up comedy

Youth Sexual Exploitation in Nigeria: Pathway Influencers and Crossroad Solutions for an Undercarpet Menace

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