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June 2007, Vol 97, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 1006-1014
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.088559

FRAMING HEALTH MATTERS

Men’s Extramarital Sexuality in Rural Papua New Guinea

Holly Wardlow, PhD, MPH

Holly Wardlow is with the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Ontario.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Holly Wardlow, PhD, MPH, Dept of Anthropology, University of Toronto, 100 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada (e-mail: hwardlow{at}chass.utoronto.ca).

Married women in rural Papua New Guinea are at risk for HIV primarily because of their husbands’ extramarital relationships. Labor migration puts these men in social contexts that encourage infidelity. Moreover, many men do not view sexual fidelity as necessary for achieving a happy marriage, but they view drinking and "looking for women" as important for male friendships.

Although fear of HIV infection is increasing, the concern that men most often articulated about the consequences of extramarital infidelity was possible violent retaliation for "stealing" another man’s wife. Therefore, divorced or separated women who exchange sex for money are considered to be "safe" partners. Interventions that promote fidelity will fail in the absence of a social and economic infrastructure that supports fidelity.




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