Category: Counter Culture Blog
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 ...
The Sexuality Blog: Are you C.I.S?
In the last two months handling the sexuality blog we’ve come to realise that a big part of the problem ...
The Sexuality Blog: Sex work is not prostitution
Yeah I said it, sex work is not prostitution. Part of acknowledging that the world is far more complex than ...
The Sexuality Blog: Last weekend proved we’re still fighting people instead of institutions
It might seem like we’re dwelling on Chimamanda’s ‘TERF-Gate’ (that’s what we’re choosing to call it here on the Sexuality ...
The Sexuality Blog: Is gender different from sex?
With all the furore that has happened in the last week around Chimamanda’s comments about trans-women, Nigerians home and abroad ...
[The Sexuality Blog] TERF-DOM: Chimamanda clarifies her ‘transphobic’ comments, but it won’t be enough for many
Do we need to explain that interview? If you haven’t heard about it, you should probably click here and catch ...
The Sexuality Blog: It turns out Chimamanda Adichie is human after all
Unless you’re a Nigerian without access to social media, or really any kind of media, you’ve probably heard of Chimamanda ...
[The Sexuality Blog] Back to Basics: Does a rape victim bear any of the blame?
We at The Sexuality Blog are revisiting the basics, and as best we can, explaining the concepts of sex, consent ...
The Sexuality Blog: Toxic Masculinity affects everyone, even you
The Huffington Post recently put out an article that puts in perspective a very specific problem: America’s epidemic of gay, ...
[The Sexuality Blog] Back To Basics: Let’s talk about consent
While we’ve always known Nigeria has a big, big problem with sex. We misunderstand it as a concept and misappropriate ...
The recent NOI Polls on Female Genital Mutilation should give you serious pause
NOI Polls the premium polling service in West Africa on the 3rd of March released stats from their latest poll ...
The Sexuality Blog: Milo Yiannopoulous is every LGBT person at 15
I try not immerse myself in American politics. It’s because I don’t care about what happens there (I do, I ...
The Sexuality Blog: Kemen’s #BBNaija eviction shows we have made progress but we still have a long way to go
Even though we still have a long way to go concerning sexuality, gender and women’s rights; the events of last ...
The Wedding Party proves New Nollywood is no better at giving women agency than Old Nollywood
It’s been a couple of months since The Wedding Party, arguably the biggest commercial success Nollywood has ever produced hit ...
The Sexuality Blog: Finally a Nollywood film that gets sex work right
I can’t be the only one who cringes when we see certain topics being treated as the subject of a ...
The Sexuality Blog: And now, some plastic surgery for your scrotum
In case you didn’t know, Modupe Ozolua isn’t the only person offering plastic surgery options to middle class Nigerians willing ...
The Sexuality Blog: Sex isn’t all it’s cut out to be
“A man might think he needs a pillow to sleep well, but he’ll sleep just as well without one” – ...
The Sexuality Blog: Is it really so hard to keep sexual predators out of schools?
In Edo state, a corper put up a picture of a teenage girl, with a caption that made my head ...
The Sexuality Blog: Just how many LGBT Nigerians are there?
Generational changes are certainly making coming out easier for everyone, young and old in Nigeria despite anti-marriage same-sex laws. Recently, TV personality Funmi Iyanda shared a ...
The Sexuality Blog: ‘We Are Flowers’ – An anthology celebrating LGBT life in Nigeria
Featuring a collection of creative non-fiction, poetry, art work, photography by straight and LGBT artists, this is the first volume of ...
The Sexuality Blog: Can we let Miyonse live?
In a country where we have only had one man come out on national television, public declarations of sexuality are ...
The Sexuality Blog: Not all men who have sex with men are gay…
Ever heard of the term gay-for-pay? What about MSM? People are slowly coming to terms with the fact that straight ...
The Sexuality Blog: Straight men are actually gay AF
Yeah, I swore. Straight people, especially straight men are gay as hell. They’re so gay they put the ‘masc for ...
The Sexuality Blog: About that coming out story ‘For Akin’
There are coming out stories and there is ‘For Akin’, written by Funmi Iyanda at the request of her friend ...
The Sexuality Blog: Repeat after me, promiscuity is a luxury
One of the interesting things social media does is highlight how little we know about the history and politics of the ...
The Sexuality Blog: Down low spouses are exactly what Nigeria deserves
Noticed that the number of homosexual men and women married to heterosexual partners getting outed is sky-rocketing? Well, we have. ...
The Sexuality Blog: Are women really their own worst enemies?
It is interesting how religion and culture are often brought up when the rights and sexualities of women are being ...
The Sexuality Blog: Pretty Mike is a troll. Why are you Nigerians enabling him?
It’s not very often that you get the Lagos state government to act on matters of social justice without ...