SOUTH AFRICA - 'BLESSER' CULTURE PREVAILS AS FEMALE TERTIARY STUDENTS FOUND INVOLVED IN TRANSACTIONAL SEX

Research by the Higher Education and Training HIV/Aids programme has revealed that 14% of relationships involving female tertiary students are based on transactional sex.

This as the blesser or sugar daddy phenomenon continues to make waves on social media.

In these types of relationships, an older, wealthier man is the blesser and young woman is a blessee.

He provides her with goods, money or lifestyle experiences in return for sex.

Director of the Higher Education and Training HIV/Aids Programme, Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia, says these type of relationships contribute to the rapid spread of HIV/Aids and teenage pregnancy.

"There is a challenge and this challenge needs to be overcome as fast as possible. This challenge is not only just among the both sexes of young women and men in universities and colleges. This is also leading to the epidemics of HIV/Aids in a very fast way, sexual infections and teenage pregnancies," says Ahluwalia.

VIA - sabc.co.za