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[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…

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[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…

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[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…

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[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…

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[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…

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[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…

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[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…

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[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…

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[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…

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[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…

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[The Sexuality Blog]: Amber Rose isn’t here to raise your children, and you have no say in how she raises hers

Amber Rose is yet again in the news. For the same reason, she is often in the news, she dares yet again to be a woman with sexual agency. What…

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[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…

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[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…

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Here’s a small reminder, “men are scum” didn’t start today

If you go on the internet you'll find that the phrase "Men are Scum" which caught steam in 2015 and continues to inform conversations today polarises Nigerians only into different…

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[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…

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[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…

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[The Sexuality Blog]: Election year is coming up, and Nigerian politicians have remembered homosexuality exists (again)

Like death and taxes, you can always depend on Nigerian politicians to skirt important issues and focus on misplaced priorities. Masters of diversion and petty politics, Nigerian politicians seem to…

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[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…

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[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…

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[The Sexuality Blog]: Child marriage is not a ‘Muslim’ problem, Nigerians, it is all our problem

Nigeria was in the news in 2015 thanks to the revival of the hashtag #ChildNotBride in revolt to the new proposed Gender Equality Bill, struck out because it dared to…

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[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,…

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[The Sexuality Blog]: Older Nigerian women are finally speaking up on sexual abuse

Nigeria has a code of silence. Heavily influenced by Nigeria's strong familial society, we are encouraged from a very young age to put the dignity of the family above self-preservation,…

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[The Sexuality Blog]: Here’s something we never thought we’d see in our lifetimes

At the ongoing 2017 NATO summit, spouses of the coalition's leaders assembled for events organised in their honour. But this year, among the first wives and official partners was a…

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[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…

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[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…

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[The Sexuality Blog]: Best news we’ve seen all day

This isn't going to be on those winding, slightly judgy posts we tend to give you on the Sexuality Blog. Nope, this one is going to be short and sweet,…

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[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…

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[The Sexuality Blog]: Cassper Nyovest is putting his money where his mouth is, and standing with women

Women have been vocal for decades about how the system needs to change. They have challenged legislation, physically protested, mourned when they were killed and maimed by a system that…

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[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,…

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[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…

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