Marx, Jacqueline Greer.2010-09-072010-09-0720062006http://hdl.handle.net/10413/953Thesis(M.A.)-Universityof KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.This study investigated communicative parameters in parent-adolescent and peer discussions about sex. While most sexual health interventions rely on communication and the dissemination of information, little research has sought to elucidate how talk about sex is mediated by the social and cultural context in which it occurs. This study was undertaken with the purpose of obtaining a better understanding of the way in which contextual factors mediate talk. In order to do this, oral histories of participants' first knowledge of sex and first sex experiences were accessed. Participants of different ages were interviewed with a view to exploring how social and cultural factors mediating talk changed over time.enYouth--Sexual behaviour--South Africa.Parent and teenager.Communication and sex.Health education.Sex--Social aspects.Theses--Psychology.Thesis