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June 21, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Misogyny is one of the corner stones of Christianity in West Africa, we must never forget this

Recently Quartz Africa published this opinion piece on the damage that Pentecostal churches in Nigeria and Ghana continues to wreak on the lives of girls and young women born and raised in its churches. But this is only a small fraction of the problem in West Africa. All the different Christian factions equally propagate and... Read More
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June 21, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Nigerian parents’ fear of sex education has pushed them to launch this ignorant petition

So last week, the Parents Teacher Association of The Crescent School in Victoria Island Lagos, launched a petition to the Federal Ministry of Information to “investigate the process that led to the adoption of some ‘immoral textbooks’ by the National Examination Council and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.”  The phrasing is so ridiculous, I had... Read More
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June 18, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Spread the word, BimInspire is offering free counselling for victims of sexual abuse and Domestic Violence this month

SURVIVE: A private counselling and therapy session organised by BimsInspire Foundation for victims of Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence. The programme is supported by Stand To End Rape This is so, so important. We are only starting to truly acknowledge that domestic violence and sexual abuse are epidemics quietly ravaging Nigeria’s households. As more victims... Read More
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June 18, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Things are increasingly complicated for LGBT people looking to become parents

Science and changing societal expectations means that more LGBT people are coming out of the closet and pursuing what would ordinarily constitute as a ‘normal’ heterosexual life. They are especially aggressively pursuing heteronormative domestic lives, entering into longterm monogamous relationships with single partners with the express purpose of companionship and eventually, raising children. But because... Read More
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June 18, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] A Nasty Boy is exploring queerness and gender norms through fashion

For an industry that has profited greatly off queerness and queer people, the Nigerian fashion industry has largely been incredibly exclusionary to queer people who dare to publicly assert their queerness. Their contributions to the industry are downplayed and they are ostracised for showing individuality. It is a tight rope many queer people who choose... Read More
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June 17, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Bill Cosby’s mistrial proves we need to separate our artists from their work

Bill Cosby, better known to you as Cliff Huxtable from the Cosby Show has literally inspired two generations of black people across the world. He is as instantly recognisable in Lagos, Nigeria as he is New York, United States of America. The good will he enjoyed from the relatable and non-threatening characters he played in... Read More
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June 17, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Who would have thought? Trump just signed a new HIV/AIDS deal with Nigeria

We have been quite alarmist about Donald Trump on the Sexuality Blog. We have have had good reason to be, considering his policies on female reproductive health, abortions and LGBT rights (we are the sexuality blog after all) but it seems things are finally turning the corner with the Trump administration, especially as it regards... Read More
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June 16, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Mikael Owunna is creating a visual collage of Queer Africans across the world

For many Queer Africans, the dream is to be able to relocate to a first world country where the rights of LGBT people are upheld by law and queerness is more mainstream and be finally allowed to explore their lives as queer people. But the reality is, because of endemic racism, queer Africans who move... Read More
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June 15, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: The Chibok Girls are just the tip of a much larger problem of fundamentalist fueled sex slavery

A little over a month ago, the entire country was thrown into surprise celebration when 82 of the 238 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, a Nigerian islamic terrorist group with affiliations to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014 were released. During the three years that the girls were abducted, they became the very... Read More
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June 13, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Are we ever going to talk about the long term effects of the Edo-Italy sex trade?

Conversations around sex work and human trafficking in Nigeria cannot be had without referencing the 30-year tragedy that is Edo state’s intergenerational history of sex trafficking. Since the mid-70s, a steady stream of women and girls have been lured out of Benin City and it’s surrounding towns, some coerced by their parents to the shores... Read More
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June 11, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: For women in abusive relationships, access to contraception could cost you your life

When we wrote about the illegal practice of stealthing that is currently gaining popularity in homosexual and heterosexual relationships, little did we realise, this was only an augury of a far more disturbing phenomenon, the violation of women’s reproductive rights in relationships as a method of control for their partners. There is a whole discussion that... Read More
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June 11, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Quickcare will make healthcare that much easier for LGBTI people in Nigeria

Accessing quick affordable healthcare, especially for LGBTI related issues is easily the biggest problem sexual minorities in Nigeria face after discrimination. Even though this access is tied to discrimination as doctors routinely out HIV+ LGBTI patients or refuse to treat them at all, or force them to ‘convert’ to their religion of choice before treating... Read More
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June 6, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Ireland might be getting a gay prime minister, but that’s only half the story

Europe is finally embracing sexual minorities and not just in a superficial way that stops short of them acknowledging that sexual minorities are first and foremost people and deserve to be treated the same way as anyone else. They are voting for them when they contest for social and political positions and putting them in... Read More
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June 6, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Free Self Defense classes for women and children for five years? Sign me up

On Friday via Twitter, the Executive Director of the Nigerian non-profit, Stand To End Rape announced that it had signed a five-year partnership with a yet to named firm to offer free self-defense classes every weekend to women and children and students in Abuja and its environs.   Guys, @StandtoEndRape just got a 5 year... Read More
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June 5, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Is it homophobia if my religion doesn’t permit me to support gay marriage? – a rejoinder

So there was this article on TheNakedConvos (which after that disastrous episode with the adaptation of their web series Our Best Friends Wedding, has bounced back to tackling sexuality issues intelligently) from a user about homophobia. The main gist of the article which you can read here, is that Christianity’s primary book, the Bible documents... Read More
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June 2, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Yul Edochie, Skuki, Leslie Okoye; all of you, please stop talking

Nigerian celebrities seem determined to expose just how back, unintelligent and misogynist they truly are this month. So much so, that one actual actor and two celebrity adjacent persons, all from different creative backgrounds decided to offer their unsolicited opinions on marriages, domestic unions and domestic violence. In response to the unravelling of Mercy Aigbe’s... Read More
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May 31, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Is Charly Boy a Nigerian Queer icon or is he just profiting off the otherness of queer people?

Charles Oputa, otherwise known as Charly Boy is known just as much for his music as he is for his controversial opinions and unconventional lifestyle. Later in his life, however, he went from expressing a decidedly metal rocker aesthetic complete with body jewellery, tattoos and leather chaps, to full on gender exploration, in the form... Read More
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May 26, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: It’s time we started telling young women to demand orgasms when they have sex

We don’t talk enough about sex as Nigerians. Sure we sneak in a couple of pages of erotica every other hour while we’re supposed to be hard at work, download some more adult pornography for the evening after, and spend all the time we devote to office and post-office socialising discussing the pros and cons... Read More
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May 25, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Asoebi Bella proves marriage articles will always work when everything else fails

You probably haven’t heard, but a few days ago, BellaNaija, Nigeria’s most respected entertainment media house announced they were diversifying. They didn’t exactly phrase it like that, but anyone who knows, knows. They announced this diversification without ceremony or fanfare on their own website, perhaps to downplay just how big what they just did could... Read More
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May 23, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Sexperts are the new internet craze, but you should exercise some caution

As far as social media visibility goes, OAP and Youtube Vlogger, Uwanma has better branding than most. Her signature is blonde hair, the colour of straw, and a wide smile and a candour about sexual organs and orifices. She’s been vlogging for a while, a relatively new avenue for social media personalities, but is one... Read More
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May 20, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: First it was women on #OBFW, now it’s effeminate gay men on Inspector K, RED TV, what are you doing?

The final episode of RED TV’s Inspector K just dropped yesterday. For those who don’t know, RED TV is sort of a hybrid media/advertising arm of United Bank for Africa, one of the biggest banks in the country. They join Ndani and Accelerate TV of Guaranty Trust Bank and Access Bank respectively to make the... Read More
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May 19, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: There have always been queer Nigerians, get over it

We say it here all the time on the sexuality blog in response to the hateful and very inaccurate statement that homosexuality and queerness is some scourge brought in by either by colonialists or post-colonial, tv crazed, godless white men looking to ‘corrupt’ our ‘culture’: There were always Gay/Queer people in Africa, get over it... Read More
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May 19, 2017

[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 risk being rejected by their families or worse become victims of a government always seeking examples to reinforce its ‘cultural values’, LGBT people also have... Read More
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