Abstract
abstractThis Article aims to problematise the way in which youth sexualities are constructed through South African newspaper articles written for adults. Using an adaption of discourse analysis the article identifies and critically explores the way in which several discourses work interdependently to construct a dominant narrative of black South African youth sexuality as vulnerable, problematic and in need of the surveillance and intervention of experts. It is argued that such an analysis can be used to create spaces in which those working with youth can interrogate their own internalised constructions of youth sexuality. Unless these normative constructions are challenged there is a risk that interventions may be inappropriately designed and facilitated according to these problematic representations of youth and youth sexuality.
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