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[The Sexuality Blog]: Kenya’s first MSM health community clinic is hope for all LGBT Africans
There's nothing quite like a glimmer of hope in all the dreariness that accompanies LGBT life in Africa. It's not news that apart from having to hide their sexualities or…
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[The Sexuality Blog]: If you dont believe women when they tell you #MenAreScum, then you should ask gay men
Oh yeah, we forgot. You would never ask a gay man their opinion on anything because as one man on Twitter put it "Can't listen to anything from a person…
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[The Sexuality Blog]: TY Bello’s King Women interview was brave, but terribly handled
There are only two times to publicly report sexual assault as a victim, immediately it happens, and if you cannot, when you are completely ready to face what happened. TY…
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[The Sexuality Blog]: Believe it or not, people like Joro serve a purpose
Agony Aunt. Joro Olumofin. Two words you wouldnt expect to see side by side; and as much as it probably burns him to admit it, that is exactly what he…
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TY Bello’s King Woman reaffirms that sexual abuse is more common than we think
TY Bello seems like the last person in the world who underwent sexual abuse as a child. She is so upbeat and successful, such an icon who has in her…
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The Sexuality Blog: The Handmaid’s tale feels like watching an alternative future of Nigeria
It is quite unlike me to shill for a television series, especially when it is not one that is Nigerian or seems particularly relevant to our daily lives as Nigerians.…
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The Sexuality Blog: Why do you call women ‘females’?
Well, why? It seems a fairly ordinary question, especially since it's something a lot of grown men (and some women) do, even though many women have explicitly stated their displeasure…
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The Sexuality Blog: ‘If’ is just the latest in Davido’s long line of songs that celebrate materialistic relationships
Nigerian jollof is all about sex and/or wealth. Women offering or withholding sex, men describing sexual acts or talking about 'ikebe' and 'backa' and 'Ukwu' and 'ogede'. But while we're…
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[The Sexuality Blog] Back to Basics: Here’s a quick guide to sharing nudity online
Exhibitionism (the practice of revealing one's self in a sexual manner as way of self expression) and voyeurism (active consumption of exhibitionism and exhibitionist material) has been in existence since…
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[The Sexuality Blog] For your viewing pleasure: Hell Or High Water
Early 2016, the short film Hell Or High Water made in association with Nigerian LGBT rights group TIERS Nigeria broke real glass ceilings in Nollywood. Before it there have been…
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The Sexuality Blog: Yvonne Orji makes a strong case for abstinence
You should know Yvonne Orji by now, Nigerian born American actress who came into fame for her role as Molly, a promiscuous and unlucky in love professional on HBO's Insecure.…
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The Sexuality Blog: ‘Stealthing’? Are you people kidding me?
The discussion around sexual health and sexuality is expanding. And as it expands, especially pertaining to sexual assault, rape and consent, it is finally touching areas that have stayed grey…
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The Sexuality Blog: Teach your sons to learn to deal with rejection, our very lives depend on it
In the last 10 days, two American men have killed a total of 18 people in cold blood. Their reasons/justification for taking the lives of innocent people; their wives/girlfriends decided…
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The Sexuality Blog: Even in celibacy, sex still defines us
Over the long weekend, I reconnected with friends and caught up on their lives, especially their emotional and romantic lives. One friend in particular surprised all of us. She likes…
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The Sexuality Blog: Do Nigerian priests have any support system to help make sense of celibacy?
The most fascinating thing about Christianity when you exclude its dogma and the often illogical fervor of its fundamentalists is its clergy. Christianity has more denominations than any other religion…
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The Sexuality Blog: We want rights for women but we stay putting people like Reuben Abati in power
I've been looking askance at this opinion editorial fluff piece that former Presidential spokesman and editor of Guardian Nigeria Reuben Abati sent out, uncoerced to several news agencies earlier this…
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The Sexuality Blog: The dilemma that is monogamous marriage for a millennial
Christianity and the western cultures it influences have foisted monogamy on us as the only acceptable way to entertain intimacy. We are taught very early that love must be a…
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The Sexuality Blog: Lagos has a Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, and you should use it
Over the weekend, a girl I know had her mobile devices, laptop and tablet seized by her mother. I have tried frantically to reach her since then, and have found…
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The Sexuality Blog: Who would have thought #BBNaija’s women would ask all the right questions?
So BBNaija 2017 is ending. For the last 90 days we've watched 14 Nigerians picked 'arbitrarily' to representation of the country's millennial generation give up their right to privacy and…
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The Sexuality Blog: As predicted, the Global Gag Rule has started rolling out
A few months ago, as one of his first official executive actions as President of the United States, Donald Trump reinstated the Global Gag Rule. We wrote extensively about it…
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The Sexuality Blog: Maternal mortality is still a thing, folks
"Modupe Oyekunle." That name might mean nothing to you, but it should. Yesterday she died, after successfully delivering a daughter, her third after a difficult pregnancy. But Modupe Oyekunle wasn't…
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The Sexuality Blog: No one tells you of the violence that happens when women are trafficked for prostitution
American journalist Ben Taub's most recent article is the kind of journalism Nigeria so desperately needs. Consumed as we are by following the shenanigans of unrepentant politicians and the nouveau…
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The Sexuality Blog: Tell us everything or tell us nothing at all
The 21yr old son of a Senator from Taraba state raped a 7year old girl anally. He destroyed her internal organs and she died. 1/ — فلان نصر ٱلله (@FulanNasrullah)…
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The Sexuality Blog: Will ‘When We Speak Of Nothing’ be a worthy heir to Jude Dibia’s ‘Walking With Shadows’?
The Nigerian literary industry is clearly bereft of stories about queerness and homosexuality. That absence can be laid firmly at the feet of a religious society that bristles at the…
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The Sexuality Blog: Cynthia Morgan (and Nigerians) need to learn to shut up and mind their business
Cynthia Morgan, talented reggae rapper with a penchant for borrowed accents (at our last count she had four though she grew up in Benin city), appropriating the cultures of other…
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The Sexuality Blog: One of your literary faves just outed himself as a raging misogynist
It really is weird that this month has really proved unequivocally that as a whole, the literary community needs to kill its darlings. We might not be as rabid as…
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The Sexuality Blog: So Beauty and the Beast has gay characters and Nigerians are pissed
Nigerians never disappoint, honestly truly. If I could trade Nigerians on the stock market and make money off predicting their behaviour, I'd be a billionaire. We are reactionary, often responding…
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[The Sexuality Blog] We keep swiping: the millennial problem
Nigerians have always been promiscuous. And while the millennial generation of Nigerians will argue that we are having more sex than our parents ever even dreamed of, the most casual…
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[The Sexuality Blog] From Tonto Dikeh to Muma Gee | Marriage is still a death trap for women, stay woke
Tiwa Savage, Tonto Dikeh, Toke Makinwa, Muma Gee and now Atoke Utomi, just five women in celebrity marriages who have had to go through high profile separations/divorces, complete with allegations…
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The Sexuality Blog: Gay men are playing The Respectability Olympics, and everyone is losing
Someone once said, many of the problems gay men around the world face would vanish if all gay men would embrace feminism with the fervor of Feminazis, and every day…
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YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy
YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy