Category: Counter Culture Blog
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
[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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Sexuality Blog: Tunde Ednut needs to STFU about TBoss – and anything else – for a very, very long time
Here’s where we are. A woman was sexually harassed while she slept. On international television. We saw it. The videos ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
[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 ...
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 ...
The Sexuality Blog: What ‘Newsies’ taught me about American pro-choice activism
America has an interesting way of preserving even the most infinitesimal parts of its history; through the work of playwrights ...
The Sexuality Blog: Turns out the #NotAllMen brigade doesn’t really care about men after all
Today on Twitter (as it often happens) a person was outed as a sexual predator. This isnt the first time ...
The Sexuality Blog: How do we solve a problem like Kiss Daniel?
Nigerian entertainment has a publicist problem. It really isn’t too much to expect that when a ‘celebrity’ attains a certain ...
The Sexuality Blog: The worst thing you can be in Nigeria is poor and female
By now the news must have trickled everywhere. In spite of a court order forcing the Lagos state government from ...
[The Sexuality Blog] Back to Basics: Is solicitiation sexual harassment?
One of the unexpected consequences of access to social media is encountering scenarios and alien to one’s lived experiences and ...
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