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ocial media evolving as a useful tool for youths to share
experiences, get new ideas and seek advice. Gone are the days
when you had to wait for your favourite weekly or monthly
magazine. Today, it is a matter of your smart phone and your
facebook account. In an effort to comprehend the modern youth culture,
trials and tribulations and provide a platform for sharing experiences
for those that are seeking advice and new ideas, we have embraced
the social media. Our focus is the popular local facebook page run by
a prominent local radio personality. On the extract below we focus on
the highly contentious issues of sexual reproductive rights and what
youths think of them.
Condoms for Women
Post
Should women carry or keep condoms?
Ladies would you? If not, why? And guys,
would you be ok with this?
Your comments:
Tinashe Leerock : As long as
contraceptives are being used, women will
be treated as objects. And, have you ever
wondered why unwanted pregnancies are
so many when contraceptives are there?
Something is wrong here. I think they are
out of God’s plan.
Vanessa Chinyanga : Yes, we should
carry them, go to hell that whole bull
of being a lady. Men tend to use that as
an excuse to have unprotected sex with
women, so I’d rather be a woman within
a condom, than a woman with morals and
AIDS
Mike Jonasi : Why not? That’s why
there’s a female condom
Anyway Chikuni : Panobatwa munhu
vakomana (There will be chaos, guys).
Once ndazvibata anotogara atorongedza
twake (Once I discover it, she’ll pack and
go)
Willard Hokoza : Yes, man its okay, at
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least to me she is smart and safe. l do like
it on a lady because it shows appreciation
of reality, a lady who knows what she
wants and what’s there to like and love in
a relationship. Keep it up the ladies who
tame men on risk assessments. Keep the
step on the pedal as it will take us all up
and above. Love you all, nwaáa.
Preston Munemo : Once I see them,
I won’t be accepting any explanation
because its clear evidence that she is a
loose gal who can have sex with any man
and from that day, she will no longer
be trusted by me. I will be left with no
choice but to let go and move on.
Charity Kamanga Segolela : I always
keep condoms to be safe. It’s my
responsibility to be safe. Men out there
like to take chances and have sex with
you without a condom. My man knows
that when we do groceries, they are on the
list. No condom no sex, that’s my policy.
As a woman, it’s not an abomination, but
its being responsible. Men who think its
wrong need to grow up and check the
statistics of people dying of HIV and AIDS
every year. Google it, it will open your eyes
and make you realise that even though
you have both tested negative, it doesn’t
mean that you can have unprotected sex.
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Honest Elias Duke Koke : Hazviite
varume, musikana wangu kana mukadzi
wangu ofamba nemacondom hazviite
guys, anenge achida kunorara nani umwe
out there besides inini BM(batai munhu)
(Impossible for my girlfriend or wife to
move around with a condom, who will
she be intending to sleep with besides
me? Hell will break loose
George Komichi : A motorist carries car
keys, a farmer seeds or a hoe, a carpenter
moves with his hammer, a disc jockey his
CDs, a pastor the bible. So why not? Its a
‘yes’ from me.
Ruvimbo Marufu : Why should we hide
behind the veil as if we are saints? It’s
better safe than sorry. Personally I’m of
the opinion that if you can’t abstain just
carry them around, it saves your life
enough, think up a name for the kid, you
are married!)
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Love life Generation.
April 2013