Post results: Focus Group Results Is it possible to abstain?

• Yes

• Avoid the opposite sex

  • Walk with same-sex friends, not alone
  • Walk away from girls/boys who are approaching you
  • Just talk to opposite sex, don’t befriend them
  • Don’t joke with them or touch them
  • Don’t listen when a boy says he loves you.

• Re-direct your sexual energy, keep busy:

  • Dig, farm, do household chores, fetch wood, play football
  • Focus on school work and the future
  • Spend time in church
  • When you are “in heat” girls should use a “maize cob” so they don’t play sex