‘BOYS MOSTLY JUST WANT TO HAVE SEX’: YOUNG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE TALK ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUAL INTIMACY IN REMOTE, RURAL AND REGIONAL AUSTRALIA
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Date
2020
Authors
Senior, Kate
Chenhall, Richard
Helmer, Janet
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Sexualities
Abstract
This article seeks to understand Indigenous Australian young people’s relationships and
their experiences of sexual intimacy. A cohort of Indigenous 16–25-year-olds from
urban, rural and remote communities were invited to participate in a collaborative
method involving scenario-based body mapping. In these activities, young people dis cussed the range and complexity of their relationships and how constructions and
interpretations of relationships contribute to both positive and negative experiences.
These rich understandings provide important insights into adolescent sexuality as
‘multidimensional, socially constructed and negotiated’. However, they also point to
the continued gendered power inequalities that subordinate young women’s lives to
the desires and control of young men
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Keywords
Type of access: Open Access, Adolescent health, Indigenous Australian, love, relationships, sexuality
Citation
Senior, K., Chenhall, R., & Helmer, J. (2020). ‘Boys mostly just want to have sex’: Young Indigenous people talk about relationships and sexual intimacy in remote, rural and regional Australia. Sexualities, 23(8), 1457–1479. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720902018