Cashless Policy as Determinant of Sexual Exploitation among Women in South-South Nigeria

Abstract

Economic and financial sector play a vital role in the determination of population size in any country across the globe. When these sector are not properly handle resulting in scarce resources, thereby luring people to engage in activity that are not of interest, particularly sex without consent. The aim of this study is to evaluate Cashless Policy as Determinant of Sexual Exploitation among Reproductive Age Women in South-South Nigeria. This is a cross-sectional study involving 260 females who are within the age of 18 to 42 years. Consent was sorted from the participants before giving them the questionnaires. A well-structured questionnaire was administered to participants. Each participant had one questionnaire to fill appropriately and independently after instructions were given to them by the researchers. The study lasted for a period of 3 months. The study revealed that 20(7.70%%) of the respondents were within 18-22 years, 152(58.50%) 23-27years, 6(2.30%) 28-32 years while 82(31.50%) were within 33-37 years. Again, the study revealed that 44(16.90%) had primary education, 88(33.80%) had secondary education, and 128(49.20%) had tertiary education respectively. 214(82.30%) participants were single while 46(17.70%) were married. 40(15.40%) of the respondents were doing farming, 64(24.60%) trading and 156(60.00%) were unemployed. 82.3% of the respondents did not have access to money and 81.5% were exploited sexually. 80.8% were forced to have sex while 81.5% yield to the sexual exploitation.78.5% were Victims of sexual exploitation. The findings also shows that 92(35.40%) of the respondents had complication of unwanted pregnancy, 84(32.30%) had sexually transmitted disease, 40(15.40%) had psychological trauma, and 44(16.90%) did not have any complications from sexual exploitation. Data were obtained and analyzed using SPSS version 23 and P value < 0.05 was said to be significant.