Most women cannot orgasm from just penetration alone, yet many people still believe otherwise. One study found that only 18.4% of women reported that intercourse alone was enough to make them orgasm, while more than a third said they needed clitoral stimulation to reach orgasm. Misconceptions like this exist and persist because conversations around sex are still shrouded in silence. For a lot of women in Nigeria, sex is still a sacred topic discussed in hushed tones. This makes accurate …
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Research on sex
Written by Precious Nwosu “When someone repeatedly feels dismissed or unheard in medical settings, it doesn’t just stay about that one appointment. It becomes a pattern that the nervous system starts to recognise,” says Amari Leaphart, …
Sexuality and sexual expression have generally been taboo topics for African women. With the rise of feminism, more women are realising that purity culture is deeply rooted in misogyny since it only applies to women. Consequently, …
Written by Miracle Okah Back in the day, sex wasn’t just a mere three-letter word for women. It was a whispered word, a word spoken in hushed tones, most times with a hand half-covering the mouth. …
Written by Maryam Ibrahim Growing up as a woman in Nigeria, you quickly learn that many things are seen as your fault. From a young age, we watched movies about childless couples where the blame always …
Written by Oladoyin Alana The first time I summoned courage to question the church, I was in my teenage years. I couldn’t understand why my friend, Ruth*, refused to attend service one Sunday. When I asked …
Written by Mide Olabanji Chika Unigwe’s The Middle Daughter follows the life of a close-knit, upper-class family in contemporary Enugu, Nigeria. A week before Udodi, the first daughter away for school, would arrive for the holidays, …
Written by Miracle Okah What would society look like without rigid beauty standards? Without relentless policing of women’s bodies? Without people searching for flaws, even when there are none? Well, I know what it would look …
Par Miracle Okah Quand mon amie a découvert qu’elle était enceinte et m’en a parlé, la première question que je lui ai posée était si elle voulait garder l’enfant. C’était parce que décider de garder un …
Written by Maryam Ibrahim Have you ever read about the history of the term “hysteria”? This outdated medical term, literally meaning “wandering womb” in Greek, was once used to explain a wide range of women’s ailments, …
The Regulation of Women’s Bodies and Suppression of Sexuality Initiated by African Mothers Nigerian Women Discuss Inheriting Sexual Stigma from Their Mothers and Coping with Traumatic Realities When I was 12 years old, I exchanged a …