Sexuality - Page 2
Rage over Saudi ban on Mecca pilgrimage for Moroccan women
Rage, incomprehension, accusations... Moroccan and foreign bloggers have multiplied attacks against Saudi Arabia after their decision, in early August, to ban young Moroccan women...
Treating vulva infections or vulvitis
Does your little girl complain of itching or pain when urinating or during the day? Is her vulva red and inflamed?
Take her to the...
Nationwide male circumcision begins in Zimbabwbe
The United States Government has made available 5,000 medical kits
worth US$1,5 million for use in Zimbabwe’s growing program to provide
male circumcision services.
Supplies were made...
Uganda’s anti-pornography law to fight homosexual vice
Uganda is soon to introduce a tough anti pornography law to fight the use of pornography in its local media. The country's Minister for...
Zimbabwe government accused of promoting teen sex
Zimbabwe government has defended its controversial decision to grant
parental leave to schoolgirls who fall pregnant as parents accused it of promoting teen sex.
In August,...
A call for sex workers’ rights in Africa
African governments must reconsider their legal and policy posture towards sex work in order to respect and uphold African sex workers’ human rights. ...
Swaziland: King Mswati the cuckold!
Swaziland’s King Mswati has been betrayed his childhood friend and his justice minister Ndumiso Mamba, who was caught red-handed sleeping with one of his...
Sex toys: Chimpanzees, Man’s primate rival
Humans are not alone in their use of tools, chimpanzees aren't left behind. American primatologist William C. McGrew has proved that the use of...
Global leaders call for end to homophobia and human rights abuses
In response to skyrocketing HIV prevalence rates among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) around the world, global health...
One month without sex…
No sexual intercourse for a month is the message that two scientists leading the fight against HIV transmission have sent to African leaders. In...
Terrorists: Sexually depraved idiots
Two American researchers, Daniel Byman and Christine Fair, have published an unusual report in the July-August edition of the popular American culture magazine The...
Male circumcision killing South Africans
Illegal circumcision’s schools in South Africa have left 35 boys dead in just two weeks in botched operations.
All the deaths are in the...
Ugandan women seek UN ban on Female Genital Cutting
Ugandan women civil organizations and politicians want the banning of
female genital mutilation (FGM) to be effected worldwide.
Uganda recently passed a law in parliament banning...
Shamed Malawi gay couple break-up, one to remarry
Hardly a fortnight after narrowly avoiding the agony of spending 14 years in jail with hard labor, the controversial Malawi gay couple has broken...
Mrs Zuma’s extra-marital affair and pregnancy rock South Africa
Polygamous South African leader Jacob Zuma may have had a test of his own medicine after news of his young wife's alleged fling with...
Morocco: Sex without taboo?
"Nouadeh Lik" is a daily radio talk-show that tackles love, psychology and sexuality on Atlantic Radio, one of six private stations in Morocco. Every...
Zimbabwe veterans vow to fight homosexuals
Zimbabwe's ageing liberation fighters have made a vow : “there will be no room for gays in Zimbabwe". They say it is against what...
Sudanese police gang rape Kenyan girls
Police in southern Sudan has arrested four of it's police officers for
reportedly gang raping two Kenyan girls.
The four policemen were working at Torit, in...
Malawi gay sentence attracts international condemnation
Malawi has attracted international criticism after a court slapped a black gay couple with a 14 year jail sentence with hard labour.
The two men,...
Malawi gay couple found guilty under colonial era laws
A gay black couple in Malawi accused of "unnatural offences" and "indecent practices between males", that is, homosexuality, have been found guilty today by...
Ugandan women seek protection against men with “big sexual organs”
Women leaders in Uganda want a clause in the domestic relations law that allows them to divorce men with big sexual organs.
During a workshop...
Fixing the mutilated vagina
A cut clitoris can be repaired. For about 3 decades now, Pierre Foldès, a French urologist, has been restoring clitorises that have fallen prey...
Zimbabwe’s sex-afflicted Catholic church scolds “sinful” journalists
A Roman Catholic Priest in Zimbabwe has angered the media by boldly declaring that journalists who expose sex scandals do so “as if they...
Catholic priests in Uganda could face life for underage sex
Uganda's minister of ethics and integrity, James Nsaba Buturo has called on security agencies and Ugandans at large to get rid of immoral catholic...
Kenya: Bisexual male prostitutes and dangers of denial
In a nightclub in the coastal city of Mombasa in Kenyan, Tito Bakari*, a native, and Leonard Smithberger, a tourist, are seen kissing in...
Being gay in Morocco
Samir Bergachi is unstoppable. Barely 23 years old, the young Moroccan is simply not content to live his homosexuality openly in a country where...
World takes a stand against genital mutilation
The push for a ban on female circumcision in Africa has been taken to the United Nations, as 27 African countries and International activists...
Catholic sex abuse scandals uncovered in Africa
Recent sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church in Europe and the Americas seem to be spreading to Africa. Alleged claims...
Ugandan women appeal to Museveni over sex and boreholes
Women in the northern Ugandan district of Yumbe, 400 kms north west of the capital Kampala, have complained that their inability to get...
Mithly, Morocco’s first magazine for gays
Launched on April 1, Mithly (gay, in Arabic) is the first openly gay Moroccan magazine. The publication, edited in Arabic, seeks to give a...