Metrics details. Sexual activities are increasingly changing from the cultural point of view what they used to be. Knowledge of these practices among adolescents may be a basis to create awareness among adolescents on practices that involve risks.
This study aims to assess sexual practices among unmarried adolescents in Tanzania. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among in-school and out-of-school but unmarried adolescents aged 10 to 19 in five locations in Tanzania.
A questionnaire was used to collect information and to characterize sexual practices among these adolescents. The only inquired and reported sexual practices include vaginal sex, masturbation, oral and anal sex. Significantly more males reported having multiple partners than females. Females reported older partners at first sexual act. Adolescents experience several sexual practices that include penetrative and non-penetrative.
More males reported being sexually active than females. Despite adolescents reporting having multiple sexual partners, reported condom use during the most recent sexual act was low.
We advocate for a more enhanced approach of reproductive health education that includes safer sex to adolescents without forgetting those in-schools. Peer Review reports. Sexuality and sexual practices differ in context because of cultural and social environmental differences that exist in the society [ 1 ]. Although there is a great variability in sexual practices, particularly in sub-Saharan countries, such practices were always considered to go hand in hand with in taboos and cultures [ 2 β 4 ].
