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Madeleine Bunting
guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 May 2010 10.59 EDT
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"Sexuality and reproduction have been clearly severed in the west; you have sex and then you make an entirely separate decision to have a child. In most parts of Africa, fertility is intimately bound up with your identity as a woman or man. You are not truly a man until you have fathered a child; and the fathering of children is a key expression of your virility. So the idea of a sexual relationship de-linked from producing children is perceived as "unnatural"."
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