“No Lecture, I Am Bored:” What Messages does Young Males Myanmar Want to Learn from Sexuality Education in Social Media?

Nan Yu Khine ,Pimpawun Boonmongkon ,Penchan Pradubmook-Sherer

doi:10.7176/rhss/11-14-02

Abstract

This paper explores how Myanmar male youths use the social networking sites especially Facebook to search sexual health information by investigating their pattern of usage and the types of sexual message they are eager to learn from online source. The study was undertaken by conducting virtual ethnography, 16 in-depth interviews and 3 FGD sessions through purposive sampling method among university students in Mandalay. Thematic analysis was guided by doing open coding. Among male youth community, searching sexual health information and seeking sexual pleasure from Facebook are very common and are main reasons to use Facebook. In conclusion, Facebook influences their sexual health in both positive ways and negative ways depending on their pattern of usage. It is recommended that young people need sexual health information and comprehensive sexuality education curriculum in schools that are related with their sexual interest, sexual culture and lifestyle and their sexual literacy. Keywords: Pattern of Facebook Usage, Sexual Health, Male Youths, Myanmar DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-14-02 Publication date: July 31 st 2021

Highlights

Nowadays, in our daily life, all of interactions with our family, friends and neighborhood and everything in our environment had been changed by the internet
There are several gender norms and sexual norms shared by members in these groups
These gender norms lead to male dominant power relationships in sexual communication and sexual norms lead to misconception of protective sex and responsibility sex

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In our daily life, all of interactions with our family, friends and neighborhood and everything in our environment had been changed by the internet. Someway, for both our personal and professional lives developments, we used internet as an essential technology applications in our modern era. Using internet is very high charges and restircts rules and regualtions, cyber law, infrastructure and software based censorship. Regardless of these barriers, Internet access promoted social networking to be a popular medium in communication among urban citizens mostly in Yangon and Mandalay(Lin & Van der Putten, 2012). Myanmar people use Facebook as main social media(Myanmar, 2017)

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