Student
Dissertation 3rd Batch 
Understanding Sexual and Reproductive Behavior: A Qualitative Exploration of Young Women Experiences in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shampa Maria D'Costa
Abstract
Objective
The objective of this study is to understand the sexual behavior of married women and the decision making role in the use of family planning/family size and childbearing in Bangladesh. In a typical patriarchal society like Bangladesh, gender plays a major factor in defining social roles, family responsibilities, and power relationships within the family. Under the circumstances majority of the girls at the time of their marriage have only a vague or no knowledge of the sexual life in which they enter soon after marriage. It is often supposed that women in poorer communities with difficult lives rarely have a desire for sex.
