Abstract
Socio-cultural theory advocates that sexual aggressive behaviour of adolescent males is socially mediated, historically and culturally conditioned. Boys, who were reportedly socialized from an early age into traditional patriarchal notions of masculinity, legitimize unequal gendered power relations. In addressing the sexual aggressive behaviour of adolescent males, the literature from previous research studies, academic journals, books and internet sources were reviewed. The research findings reveal that adolescent males raised by permissive and uninvolved parents, tend to engage in risky sexual behaviour and consequently face a bleak future, imprisonment and contract sexually transmitted infections. Appropriate interventions such as transmission of values and principles in the family, and establishment of campaigns by older adult males may have a positive impact on young males in reducing an escalating rate of victimization of females. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n10p484
Highlights
Aggressive sexual behaviour is a worldwide problem and a rising concern especially for rural adolescent males in the African continent
Sexual aggression of adolescent males is defined as a behaviour which emanates from imbalance in neurotransmitters, for example low serotonin level is strongly associated with anti-social behaviour (Nicholas, 2008)
Males tend to be more aggressive than females and these sex variations are linked to hormones of testosterone before and during birth.in contrast, testosterone is not the only hormone associated with aggression, but serotonin which is associated with depression lead people to behave impulsively (Sadock & Sadock, 2007), it is that impulsiveness that makes adolescent boys to be sexually aggressive amongst others
Summary
Aggressive sexual behaviour is a worldwide problem and a rising concern especially for rural adolescent males in the African continent. Mouton (2012) describes review of literature as a guiding map for the researcher He further concurs that review of related literature provide guidelines and suggest design to be used in the study. It helps to get a deeper insight and more knowledge about the research problem (de Vos et al, 2011; Mouton, 2012). The related research studies, academic journals, books and internet sources have been reviewed to get an overview and address the challenges faced by parents, schools and societies at large caused by sexual aggressive behaviour of adolescent males
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