SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS OF THE PRACTICE OF ADULTERY IN MILLIONS IN ABOMEY

Abstract

Sexuality is human and therefore it is subject to a rule which institutionalizes it. Adultery is a deviant practice in African and Beninese communities. The objective of this research is to analyze the socio-cultural factors of the practice of adultery in Abomey's dark environment. This research, essentially qualitative, made it possible to mobilize several actors who interact in the manifesto of this very frequent practice nowadays. From the reasoned choice technique, actors such as women who have committed adultery at least once, family members of husbands whose wife has committed adultery, populations, elders and local authorities often responsible regulation, were selected. Thanks to documentary research, observation and semi-structured interview, the information collected, analyzed and discussed have led to interesting results that provide information on the social and cultural reasons that facilitate, according to the respondents, the practice of adultery in Abomey's Fon environment. Likewise, certain consequences of this act are set out in this text with an outline of the institutions for regulating this practice, which was very tolerated in the Abomey background.