Transactional Sex

How it works

Risks & contraindications

Highlighted claims

• The inability to afford sanitary pads, combined with stigma and fear of leaking, drove girls and young women to exchange sex for pads and basic necessities. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics
• These exchanges often involved older men in relationships marked by major age and power imbalances. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics
• Participants described transactional sex for pads as necessity driven by lack of alternatives rather than free choice. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics
• Men who promised pads or money sometimes failed to deliver, and girls who became pregnant were typically abandoned. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics