Sexuality - Page 5
Women, sex and one night stands: an increasing trend
Young women are more promiscuous than men, according to a survey that claims the average 21-year-old has had nine sexual partners compared with seven...
What has Africa done to organised religion to deserve this…
The recent declaration made by the Roman Catholic Pope on the use of condoms while on his way to Africa has caused widespread hue...
Virginity: The Hymen and Foreskin under lock and key
Rape, violence, diseases, families losing their composure... Panic stricken South African parents have turned to Zulu traditional practices to protect their children from a...
Catholic Church seeks damage control after Pope gaffe
Closing ranks behind Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, the Vatican fought back against the widespread international condemnation of the pontiff’s claim – made on...
Virgin by all means possible: The search for a new hymen
"Virginity!" is the cherished motto of adherents of the "cult of the hymen." It is primarily based on the bleeding of the sacred...
Maggi Cube: A suppository and enema for a “bubble butt”?
Claiming that their men prefer plumper buttocks, some women in the Democratic Republic of Congo have turned to the use of Maggi cube (a...
Sexy campaigns for gay men in South Africa
Dance music pumps from large speakers while a half dozen shirtless young men serve drinks at a bar bathed in pink light. It is...
Tea pickers, dangerous sex and Kenya
Tea picking is a backbreaking job. But in dire need of jobs, some travel very far to work on Kenya's vast tea plantations. They...
Egypt : “Old Maids” protest on Facebook
Yomna Moktar could not take anymore of the stigmatisation and marginalisation from her fellow Egyptians towards single women. The young journalist’s decision to react...
Senegal’s judicial doublespeak and homosexuality
Nine homosexuals were sentenced to eight years behind bars, Tuesday, in Dakar, Senegal. The men were arrested in a flat on the outskirts of...
Sudan and FGM: “The clitoris is dirty”
A law passed in November 2008 prohibiting female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the state of Southern Kordofan is unique in Sudan. But for it...
When older men long for young girls in the name of religion
Zainab ran away from home, not because she was a rebellious child, a truant or a wayward girl. She was only 12 yeas old,...
Secrets of prostitution in an Islamic Kingdom
Results of a January 2008 research involving 500 prostitutes have just been released in Morocco. Under-age sex, family pressure, high educational background… this study...
Sex Poverty and HIV/AIDS on a Caribbean Island
After her aunt turned her out onto the chaotic streets of Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, eight months ago, Marie Jessy*, 16, survived by befriending...
Egypt sends first man sent to jail for sexual assault but …
Noha Rushdi has won a monumental court case that saw an Egyptian court send a man to prison for the first time for sexual...
African serfdom running amok
I am Aissata Saydou. At 13, I was sold to one Kader Amadou ba for 126,985 Mauritanian Ouguiya ($500). Selling me was the only...
Marriage or Legal paedophilia : Morocco battles with under age marriages
More than 33,560 marriages of female Moroccan minors, representing 86.79% of the requests submitted in 2007, were approved by judges, a women's rights group...
Sex for grades in Africa : Necessity or choice
Aminata is 16 years old; she lives at home with her single mother in Darker. Getting an education is the only way she could...
Man repeatedly rapes and kills a child in Mugabe’s village
In a shock rape case in Robert Mugabe's rural home of Zvimba , an 18-year-old man repeatedly raped his three-year-old niece, in full view...
Kenya : No land for sex offenders
Kenya has moved to step-up the fight against sexual offenders by establishing a national registry that would contain personal details of those convicted. The...
Male circumcision : promoting unsafe sex or mocking traditions in Kenya ?
Peter Otieno, a 25-year-old taxi driver in Kisumu City, the capital of Kenya's western Nyanza Province, is considering getting circumcised, he said "I have...
Man with 84 wives remanded in prison could be put to death
An 84-year-old Nigerian Muslim with 86 wives, Alhaji Bello Abubakar Masaba, has been arrested and charged to an Islamic Sharia court in Bida, capital...
Scandal in Morocco : Legalising paedophilia through a fatwa
Cheikh Mohamed ben Abderrahmane Al-Maghraoui recently published a religious decree on an internet site calling for girls as young as nine years of age...
Political journalist caught in pornographic scandal
The craze for pornography was prominently covered during the past week in the Malawi press.
Dorothy Kachitsa, a reporter covering the Malawi presidency, had her...
Zuma rape cartoon as seen by South Africans
South Africa was this week rocked by a controversial cartoon that made newspaper headlines around the country. The work of popular cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro,...
Anti-child pornography site launched in South Africa
South Africa's Department of Home Affairs has launched an anti-child pornography website and has urged all citizens to report incidents and provide tip-offs anonymously...
Islamic gov’t forces HIV patients to marry and orders them not to …
The Sharia government of a northern Nigerian state, Bauchi, has so far paired up over 150 HIV-positive victims in marriage, in the last few...
Africa’s absolute monarch choses 14th wife among 50 000 virgins
Swaziland, today celebrates the Reed Dance the second most important ceremony where King Mswati III would pick his 14 wife.
At the weekend...
Chosing the sex of your child : Researchers confirm results
The more you eat at around the time of conception, the greater your
likelihood of giving birth to a boy seems to be. This idea...
New Zealander arrested for pornography now charged with paedophilia
Police from The Gambia have charged a New Zealander with defiling a 16-year-old girl in the West African country, after initial accusations of pornography.
Police...