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girls as young as six-years-old are going through a rite of passage in
Malawi
it something known as an initiation camp and they
art groomed to have sex at these camps
now this is what are the most disturbing stories that I've ever read and when you
get into the details you realize just how horrible this is
but I do want to have a little bit of a disclaimer to let you guys know that
this is not
you know I something that the entire culture practices
it's a small group of people and allow we
but it's still very very problematic so I here's what happens there are pockets
that exist throughout the country especially in the south that each
sexually explicit content to their youth
initiations that encourage premarital sex are practiced among various
ethnic groups including the yeah how & Lomb week
so they go to these initiation classes and and child marriage is a big problem
in Malawi
and what happens is there basically told how they're supposed to have sex
I what happens if you don't have sex or if you disagree with someone who's
trying to have sex with you
usually the person who's trying to marry them human rights groups and researchers
have also found instances when a man
nicknamed the hyena or fizzy I had *** intercourse with newly initiated
girls as part of the rite of passage
so then there's a guy bear whose who after
telling them that they're supposed to have sex and it's the right thing to do
this is something their culture supports
he goes in and have sex with them and and anyone who disagrees with that
is is going against the culture I mean it's amazing yeah I limine
look that I don't know everything about this but it seems to be a pretty good
example love
one of the few remaining sorta extremely old school readiness
out patriarchal society which is about controlling access to resources 1
money actual resources into women and look at you can set up a system where
you teach them whatever kinda BS philosophy you want but it ends with you
have been
sex was made people as you want they're going to try to continue that
doesn't matter for 2014 that's going to be very appealing to certain men
were able to exploit it and it does strike me as odd that
like when we see in our country just try to teach you know I'm
some information about human sexuality in terms of help in terms of
contraception St is
to grade schoolers or something they say we're doing something like this
teaching them how to have sex positions and things like that it shows that like
they should be outraged about allow way not stopping
you know kids in America for understanding what a *** is for and
things like that yeah absolutely and
and the it of course there's a great deal of misinformation at these
initiation cams
and that's not to say that albee's initiation camps are the same summer
more extreme than others
and not every ethnic group in Malawi up follows this type of cultural standard
again I wanna really really emphasize that because I don't what
I want people to think this is a nationwide thing or anything like that
up but be they tell the girls you know if you refuse to have sex
you will die from these ailments if you refuse to have sex you know bad things
will happen to you
and they also do not tell the girls about what happens when you have
unprotected sex
they don't tell the girls about contraception obviously they don't so as
a result you know the prevalence
*** in aids is through the roof in Malawi let me give you the numbers
over ten percent of the population between the ages of 15 and 49 have
either *** or AIDS
there is a huge population and to give you some more numbers
Blouin is ranked 10 for the highest rate of child marriages
in the world by the World Health Organization and also thirty-five
percent
all pregnancies in the country come from teenage mothers
so this is an issue in their human rights organizations that are trying to
fight against it but the best way that you can do it
the best we could fight against it is through education yes you know you know
you don't go in there and and its
try to start a war over at you go in there and you try to educate girls about
what can happen to you if you have unprotected sex
and thankfully there are women's groups that do go there and you educate these
girls
so they know better then to fall for this type of indoctrination
yeah I I will say that obviously horrible and hopefully
apparently not by 2014 but hopefully in the near future
they will have some sort of positive resolution