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July 24, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] M.I. Abaga thinks R.Kelly grooming teenage girls for sex is ‘excusable’ because they are above the age of consent

So podcasts have become a thing in Nigeria, and we on The Sexuality Blog have even mentioned podcasts like Now “O’ Clock podcast and the We Just Got Back Podcast (WJGB) have used the power of the internet to tackle important questions of sex and sexuality and politics and gender as it affects young people... Read More
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July 17, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Denmark’s new racist policy wants to curb migration, by stopping Africans from ‘breeding’

I honest to goodness wish this headline was clickbait. But sadly, it is not. Last week, Ulla Tornaes the Minister for Development Co-operation of Scandinavian country of Denmark (which is suffering a population decline crisis) announced that the country was going to donate 14 million dollars to the International Fund for Family Planning in Africa.... Read More
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July 15, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] If you’re a woman, not even old age will free you from the misogyny of Nigerians

Just in case you thought Nigeria had left behind its restrictive, misogynistic traditions, think again. In Amauzu Mkpoghoro village, in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, a 60 plus-year-old woman was ‘caught’ having sex with her ‘younger’ lover in the bush. I say ‘caught’ because the ‘younger’ lover was at least in his... Read More
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July 13, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Scotland just became the first country in the world to offer free sanitary products

Reproductive health is a huge drain on the incomes of women. Especially for economically disadvantaged women everywhere in the world. It is so bad that in Nigeria, there is information that suggests that economically disadvantaged teenage girls lose about 8 days of schooling a month because they cannot afford sanitary pads and/or tampons and the... Read More
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July 13, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] LGBTQ and need someone to talk to? TIERS is here to help you

As an LGBTQ person in a place like Nigeria where presenting the right public face can be the difference between life and death can be exhausting. Not knowing who to talk to puts an emotional strain on you and increases your risk of developing mental health problems like depression and anxiety. Plus there is all... Read More
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July 13, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Destination wedding? Same-sex marriage is now legal in Malta

For a country so deeply entrenched in Orthodox Catholicism that the concept of divorce did not legally exist till 2011, Malta has just done the unexpected, they have just legalised same-sex marriage. This is unexpected, unprecedented even. Despite strong opposition and lobbying by Malta’s clergy (and they have considerable influence on Malta’s politics) only one... Read More
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July 13, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Give us safe abortions or just sentence us to death already

A 21-year-old girl died in the most horrible of ways, alone and in silence. She was a student of the Federal College of Education in Pankshin, Plateau and died surrounded by fellow students in whom she couldn’t have confided. Her neighbours only discovered she was dead because she hadn’t left her room in 24 hours... Read More
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July 11, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Half of Americans want a law to force women to take their husband’s surname, and this is not a good thing

It almost feels like since America elected Donald Trump into their presidency, America’s men have begun to chafe at many of the hard-won rights women have fought for since world war one. And if the events of 2017 are anything to go by, we are seeing first-hand proceedings that President Donald Trump has already managed... Read More
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July 11, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Your shoulders are sexual and inappropriate, according to the US Congress

Imagine walking into a room, one of the most important rooms into your entire country. In the very next room is where many of your countries laws are decided. Many of the most important men in your country are gathered. You have all your papers ready, you’ve been preparing for this for months. But just... Read More
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July 8, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Ekemini Uwan of the ‘Truth’s Table’ podcast is asking the hard questions about gender in the Pentecostal Church

It shouldn’t be news to anyone at this point that while the Church has been at the forefront of social justice battles, like racial equality and the emancipation of people from economic slavery, they have remained incredibly stoic on matters of sexuality and gender. Especially gender. The Church has held on to its patriarchal history,... Read More
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July 8, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] German authorities just shut down an 87,000 member child pornography site and arrested its owner

BREAKING: German authorities shut down child pornography site with 87,000 members and arrest its administrator — The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) July 6, 2017 So this just happened. According to news reports, the German police has only just announced that it shut down what might be the biggest child porn site in recent years. While the... Read More
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July 7, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Glitter bombs are the new craze for your vagina, but should you indulge?

When your self-made online store gets 1 million hits, you know you’ve made it. This is what happened to Australian mother of three last weekend Lola-Butterflie Von-Kerius when her website hawking what she calls Passion Dust Intimacy Capsules caught the collective interest of Instagram, thanks to a handful of unexpected memes and turned her into an overnight... Read More
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July 7, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] As another gay orgy scandal erupts in the Vatican, is it time we addressed homosexuality in the Catholic church?

If you’ve been following the news then you’ll know that recently, the Vatican police, after being alerted by several complaints broke up a gay orgy in the heart of the Vatican, the Catholic Church’s very own nation state. To make matters even worse, the orgy was happening in the houses of the most decorated papal... Read More
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July 6, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Do you know flushing your contraceptives down the toilet is creating ‘trans’ fish?

There is so much we don’t know about our environment and how it works, especially when it comes to genetic make up of animals of other species. It is quite unfortunate that we usually end up discovering just how much impact humans going about their daily lives can have on whole ecological systems. We only... Read More
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July 6, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Ever wanted to marry a video game character? Well Japanese men have already beat you to it

Some people have argued that whatever the future holds for humans and technology will first happen in Asia, Japan to be specific. As Japan leads the way and shows all the possibilities technology holds for humans in their daily lives, it also shows the very unexpected ways men will use technology to satisfy very primal... Read More
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July 6, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Andrew Garfield thinks coming out as gay is good press sound bite for his new film

When famous cis straight white men and women start to feel they are getting boring or losing steam in their personal or professional lives, they start to co-opt the identities of others. We’ve seen this happen, again and again, starting all the way from colonialism and slavery, right to this very day with the Kardashians... Read More
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July 6, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Nii Odartey Lamptey’s cuckolding raises important questions about men’s mental health

A few years ago, Ghanaian footballer Nii Odartey Lamptey had the worst possible thing that could happen to a famous African man happen to him. While his long term marriage deteriorated (he was married to his first wife for 21 years), he discovered the three children he sired with his wife were actually the children... Read More
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July 6, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Jay-Z’s mother came out in his new album and quietly shook the hip-hop world

I might not be as big a hip-hop head as some, but as a Nigerian with brothers and sisters, hip-hop has been an integral part of my childhood and adolescence. It influenced the way I dressed, the things I valued, the way I spoke and still speak today. I idolised rappers like Eminem for being... Read More
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July 1, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Why aren’t UNFPA’s free contraceptives for Nigerian men and women getting to the people who need it?

On the 29th of June 2017, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) renewed its four year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, UNFPA, for the procurement of contraceptives in the country. Yup, you read that right. The Nigerian government has been receiving heavily subsidised contraceptives from the UNFPA for the... Read More
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June 30, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Tanzania’s President Magufuli proves when it comes to reproductive rights Africa really is a country

“As long as I am president … no pregnant student will be allowed to return to school … After getting pregnant, you are done.” – John Magufuli, 2017 Those are the last words you’d expect to hear from any public official, let alone a president, but that is exactly what Tanzanian President John Magufuli announced... Read More
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June 29, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] #HeterosexualPrideDay and the continued obliviousness of straight people

A few days ago LGBT people all over the world gathered together to celebrate Pride, an annual event that is a part celebration-part awareness drive. Pride is held to protest the continued discrimination sexual minorities suffer at the hands of governments, the clergy, social societies and their fellow citizens. Not long after that, someone decided... Read More
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June 27, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] You’re never too young to protest restrictive gender norms, just ask these British school boys

Sometimes it’s the most inane things that lead to the important conversations about gender and sexuality. This is what an unlikely coalition of school boys from Isca Academy in Exeter discovered last week during one of the worst British Heatwave in decades. Temperatures soared so high that even the Queen of England had to relax... Read More
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June 27, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Weaves are helping bald men find and regain their sex appeal and smash gender barriers

One of the things that misogyny and patriarchal societies have denied men since time immemorial is the opportunity and platform to express just how much body image and the issues of identity and self-esteem that comes with it. For far too long, the standard for masculinity was a sense of ruggedness, and the pressure to... Read More
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June 27, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Donald Trump gives AIDS relief to Nigeria with one hand and takes aid from Africa with the other

With Donald Trump, you simply never know what to expect. We announced here a couple of days, that the United States government recently pledged an impressive 17.5 billion dollars to the Nigerian Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) to help jumpstart HIV prevention and provide treatment for persons already living with the virus. While we expressed... Read More
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June 26, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde is going to perform simulated sex scenes in her new film, and believe it or not, that’s groundbreaking

Omotola Jolade Ekeinde, one-time Time 100 person of the year and Nigerian mega superstar is returning to the big screens after 3 years away. And she is doing it in a big way, she is finally taking on the dreaded Nollywood taboo of the three-dimensional sex scene. Nollywood has always been paradoxical about depictions of... Read More
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June 22, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Out Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Appiah believes Ghanaians care too much about sex to be homophobic

This is not something you see every day. While there really isn’t any public stand on homosexuality in Ghana, we’re starting to see many more Ghanaians come out and add to their discourse on sexuality. Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Appiah in an interview with website Think Big offers his insights on being a gay man in... Read More
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June 21, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] A new TV rating that focuses on gender representation is coming and we’re here for it

Recently we talked about Nigerian parents trying to censor recommended academic literature because they were convinced it fostered rape culture and homosexuality and kidnapping (who does that?); and tried to explain why it makes no sense. But not all censoring is bad, in fact, advisory censoring that seeks to educate instead of enforcing is great.... Read More
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