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Abstract
The miners' prostitution becomes more and more actuality in spite
of the absence of statistics in developed a lot of countries and of the third
world. It`s still a public health problem who causes emotions and contradictory
attitudes. Some consider it like serious rape, others as a ritual of
adolescence passage to the adult age, others as a deviance.
Methodology
This is a transverse descriptive survey. Our sample is of 61
youngsters' minor prostitutes who practice their profession in Kavumu, aged of
less than 18 years, selected by uncertain sampling systematic with a list of
180 prostitutes like basis of poll and a step of poll of 3.
Findings
For our investigated the middle age is of 16 (15 16) years.
Family composition is 7 (67) peoples. All investigated have feminine sex. 1/3
of the girls miners prostitutes live in the Cirato and Kabamba. They
investigated have a level of incomplete secondary and primary survey are to
27.9% each. 3/4des investigated heard to speak already of the house of
prostitution and 86.9% of miners' prostitution. 2/5 of the girls prostituted
have the first sexual relation to the age between 12 and 14 bygone years, 32.8%
enter 14 and 16 bygone years, against only 9,8% a little later between 16 and
17 years. 37.7% of them investigated had finished the primary school at the
time of this first sexual relation against 34.4%. 9/10 of them think that the
clothing of the miners brings the men to envy them, the movies preferred is
love movies 63.3%, pornographic 28.3%. Reasons to prostitute are the
difficulties bound to the survival with 59%, l has research of sexual pleasure
comes in second place with 27%. In the context of move the main reason that
pushes the girls' miners to deliver themselves to prostitution is the survival
difficulties with 61.4% against 25%. When the parents separated the main reason
of prostituted mentioned by them investigated is the survival with 67.6%
against 48.1% when the parents live wholes. About 1/3 girls have sexual
relation with the partners of all categories professional, 13.1% only with the
civil servants of the state. 59% of them investigated don't make a medical
control. 91.8% of them investigated don't study anymore and the main reason
mentioned by them with 55.4% is the family poverty. the proportion of the
children non schooled girls is the double of the one of the boys (either 52.6%
against 25%). 7.4% of the girls prostituted have parents separated because of
the father's death with 57.1%, then the mother's death with 20%, the polygamy
with 14.3%. the majority of the girls prostituted lives outside of the family
house is 77%, the main reasons of this move are family poverty with 29.8%, the
desire of liberty with 27.7%, the bad friends (21.3%). More of 1/3 of our
investigated had the two parents as their person responsible at the time that
they started prostitution. 94% of our investigated moved their origin
villages and does the main reason stay the insecurity. The existence of family
meetings 55.7% and the frequency of once per week was the most quoted (by 50%
of the girls). For what is the profession of the parents agriculturist's
profession (28% of the side father against 33.9% at the mother), in second
place comes the profession of civil servant of the state with 20.4% at the
father against 3.6% The sexual dissatisfaction of the girl and the ignorance of
the importance of the condoms are the main reasons of non use of condoms with
36% each, does the man's refusal come back in last position with 28%. The more
aged girls (15 to 17ans) use two times more the condom in relation than the
youngest (less than 15 years) with P*>0.05, is this rate raised when the
first sexual relation took place in the age group of 14à16 years and
less elevated when age is less to 12 years. Schooling doesn't influence
meaningfully on the use of condom whatever having us a rate raised at the
schooled girls (60%) in relation to the non schooled (41.1%). The use of the
condom varies from meaningful manner according to the level of instruction with
the most elevated use rate to the two extremes, P*<0.05.
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