Re-defining Bodily Autonomy: A Research lens on the Power of Choice

Adolescent wellbeing and bodily autonomy is one of the most sensitive and least openly discussed sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) issues in Nigeria. For young women and adolescent girls, the combining factors of restrictive law, social and religious disapproval, and limited access to accurate information creates a situation in which many pregnancies are ended secretly and under unsafe conditions.

Purity Culture: The Silencing of Voices in Young Women

Men and women are supposed to be chaste and pure, their bodies and minds are designed to not think or perform sexual pleasure and desires until an appropriate and designated period post marriage, however women are seen to be placed on a higher standard of purity expectations than men