Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Anthropology Volume 2013, Article ID 298670, 11 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/298670 Research Article An Exploratory Study of Male Adolescent Sexuality in Zimbabwe: The Case of Adolescents in Kuwadzana Extension, Harare Sandra Bhatasara, Tafadzwa Chevo, and Talent Changadeya Sociology Department, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe Correspondence should be addressed to Tafadzwa Chevo; tafadzwachevo@hotmail.com Received 8 April 2013; Revised 28 August 2013; Accepted 6 September 2013 Academic Editor: Kaushik Bose Copyright © 2013 Sandra Bhatasara et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Although young people in Zimbabwe are becoming sexually active at a very early age, there is no unifed body of knowledge on how they regard sex and construct sexuality and relationships. In many circumstances adolescence sexual agency is denied and silenced. Tis study explored adolescents’ discourses on sexuality, factors afecting adolescent sexuality, and sexual health. Fusing a social constructionist standpoint and an active view of agency, we argue that the way male adolescents perceive and experience sexuality and construct sexual identities is mediated by the sociocultural context in which they live in and their own agency. Although adolescents are mistakenly regarded as sexual innocents by society, we argue that male adolescents are active social agents in constructing their own sexual realities and identities. At the same time, dominant structural and interactional factors have a bearing on how male adolescents experience and generate sexuality. 1. Introduction Tis study explores empirically adolescents’ construction of sexuality. According to Nyanzi [1] sexuality is constructed as the domain exclusive to adults with preconditions of physical and social maturity. Tus, notions of child sexuality are ofen viewed as taboo, antithetical, nonissues, or even dangerous and cause for moral panic. Such perceptions of “unknowl- edgeable or ill-informed adolescents” and “high-risk adoles- cents” are rife in the literature on youth and HIV/AIDS [2]. Adult sexual cultures and religious and moral discourses are deployed or implicated in positioning adolescent sexuality as taboo. Putting sexuality and children together remains problematic and morally troubling regardless of policy eforts to change this [3]. As noted by Renold [4], underlying this trouble are familiar ideologies that associate school-going learners with sexual innocence which creates the myth of an asexual child who must be protected from corrupting sexual information, producing a regulatory mechanism through which morality, sexuality, and young people at school are framed. Longstanding tropes of sexual innocence position the child as an object of concern, thwarting sexual curiosity [5]. In spite of such narrow conceptualizations of children, a number of studies demonstrate that adolescents are active sexual beings. Against representations that associate children with sexual innocence, this study examined adolescents’ dis- courses on notions of sexuality as well as their sexual health as it has been demonstrated that their needs are diferent from those of adults. Te focus of the study is particularly on boys because they are implicated in literature as having an active role in sexuality as evidenced by the fact that the burden of negative sexual consequences usually falls disproportionately on females [6]. 2. Background Sexual activities among adolescents are reported to be increasing worldwide [7]. Research in sub-Saharan Africa has documented high and increasing premarital sexual activities among adolescents. It is generally recognized that African adolescents are sexually active and sufer from consequences of routine unsafe sexual practices such as teenage parent- hood, illegal abortions, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including HIV/AIDS. Schaalma and Kaaya [8] note