Deevia Bhana is the DST/NRF South African Research Chair and Professor in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

• 1. Introduction 2. Teenagers Expressing Love: Regulating Gender and Sexuality 3. Girls want Money, Boys want Virgins: Culture and the Materiality of Teenage Love4. ‘Pure Love’: Virgins, Virtue and Desire 5. "I’m the one who says I love you first, and I’m the one to break up with you." Masculinity, Forced Love and Resistance 6. "Girls are not free." Feelings of Love, Feelings of Fear 7. Conclusion: Calling for Compassion, Care and Change

Deevia Bhana is the DST/NRF South African Research Chair and Professor in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

• 1. Introduction 2. Teenagers Expressing Love: Regulating Gender and Sexuality 3. Girls want Money, Boys want Virgins: Culture and the Materiality of Teenage Love4. ‘Pure Love’: Virgins, Virtue and Desire 5. "I’m the one who says I love you first, and I’m the one to break up with you." Masculinity, Forced Love and Resistance 6. "Girls are not free." Feelings of Love, Feelings of Fear 7. Conclusion: Calling for Compassion, Care and Change

Deevia Bhana is the DST/NRF South African Research Chair and Professor in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

• 1. Introduction 2. Teenagers Expressing Love: Regulating Gender and Sexuality 3. Girls want Money, Boys want Virgins: Culture and the Materiality of Teenage Love4. ‘Pure Love’: Virgins, Virtue and Desire 5. "I’m the one who says I love you first, and I’m the one to break up with you." Masculinity, Forced Love and Resistance 6. "Girls are not free." Feelings of Love, Feelings of Fear 7. Conclusion: Calling for Compassion, Care and Change