Association between Pornography Consumption and Sexual Practice among Adolescents in Rwanda

Project Report from the year 2017 in the subject Mathematics - Statistics, grade: "memoire", University of Rwanda (college of business and economics), course: Applied Statistics, language: English, abstract: The study was carried out to investigate the association between pornography consumption and sexual practice among adolescents of Rwanda in academic area especially in Huye District. Pornography consumption is considered as a main dangerous drug to inspire people doing sex. The motivation of doing this research is the increasing of sexual diseases and unexpected pregnancy in youths under 20 years. This is due to engage in watching porn films at such time. The study was carried out in Huye District academically in Regina pacis and Butare secondary School. The population under study was 281 students under 20 years old, grouped in these secondary schools from which a sample of 74 students was selected. A case study research design was adopted and participants are distributed in in two strata and sample size distributed proportional to the size. The study used questionnaire while descriptive and inferential statistics was used for data analysis and reporting. More women (54.2%) than men (45.8%) had ever consumed pornography sometime means that more female are high consumers than low consumers (male). Among 39 students who replied that they need sex after watching 26 of them (66.7%) are men and 13 (33.3%) are women. 27 of the sample had had sexual intercourse, of swhich 63% reported contraceptive use at their intercourse. Among the 27 who had had sex, most of them are studied in Ordinary level (51.9%) and 48.1% from Advanced level. According to the respondent, about 27 who had had sex those caused by watching porn are 20 (74.5%). About negative impact only 6 students (22.2%) always afraid, and 4 (14.8%) feel lonely in society. The materials used in watching pornography are phones (66.2%), internet (20.3%) and computer & television both occupied 6.8% each. Even if they watched it most of them (70.3%) replied that pornography is bad rather being good.