Cross-Generational Sex rate at universities alarming - survey

Kampala

A substantial number of university girls are straying away from academic work to date men old enough to be their fathers.
A survey conducted by the Saturday Monitor found that at least 197 of the 1,000 interviewed confessed to having a sexual relationship with a man 10 years their senior for material gain.

The three-week survey covered Makerere University, Makerere University Business School (Mubs), Kampala International University, Mukono Christian University, Nkumba University and Islamic University in Uganda.

Across the seven different universities it was found that a staggering 19.9 per cent of girls (or one in every five), many of whom are not yet 21, had boyfriends above the age of 30, which raises a big question as to who these men are.

The Cross-Generational Sex (CGS) trend could be shifting from the 60-year-old man to the professionals in their late thirties and early forties.

From the survey it emerged that young women who engage in these relationships are also having sex with their male peers. Some of the young women explained that they have adopted a practice popular among some university girls, one that emphasizes a different man for every one of their critical needs.

A different man is expected to buy her a car, furnish a girl’s room, do her coursework, give her pocket money and cover her expenses on clothes and the salon, and take her out.

A large number of men in the Ugandan society are married or in stable relationships from the age of 26, which would make them husbands and fathers of households.

This implies that many of these men could be spending money that is meant for their households on providing a university girl with the luxuries.

The survey also revealed that 182 girls were not in stable relationships but it is impossible to rule out the possibility that they are having a relationship with an older man for material gain.

As Angela Nantumbwe, a second year student of Human Resource Management at Mubs explains “I am “single”, but I am having a relationship with an older man for the financial benefit.

There are many other girls like me, we are single but they have men on the side”.