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Culture, Health & Sexuality
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Volume 24, 2022 - Issue 7
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‘Eventually I wanted something more’: sexual self-reflections of South African women engaged in transactional sexual relationships with blessers

Courtenay Spraguea Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA;b Department of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Lyndsey D. McMahana Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
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Leena Maqsooda Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
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Gavin Georgec Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South AfricaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7258-8470
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Pages 871-885 | Received 20 Jul 2020, Accepted 15 Feb 2021, Published online: 10 Apr 2021

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Nompumelelo Doyisa, Pranitha Maharaj & Shanaaz Dunn. (2023) Older men, younger women: blesser–blessee relationships among university students in Durban, South Africa. Culture, Health & Sexuality 25:11, pages 1530-1542.
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Courtenay Sprague, Leena Maqsood & Gavin George. (2023) When Social and Personal Norms Collide: Narratives of South African Women Navigating Transactional Sexual Relationships with Blessers. International Journal of Sexual Health 35:3, pages 444-458.
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Gavin George, Sean Beckett, Tarylee Reddy, Kaymarlin Govender, Cherie Cawood, David Khanyile & Ayesha B. M. Kharsany. (2022) Determining HIV risk for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in relationships with “Blessers” and age-disparate partners: a cross-sectional survey in four districts in South Africa. BMC Public Health 22:1.
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Beverley Haddad. (2021) Re-framing women’s agency in #Blessed sex: Intersectional dilemmas for African women’s theologies. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 77:2.
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