Talking to adolescent girls about sexuality and sexual pleasure is important in ensuring healthy attitudes toward their bodies, relationships, and self-awareness. It’s a topic often overshadowed by stigma, shame, or taboo, but it is necessary to break these barriers for the well-being of young girls. Open, honest, and non-judgmental conversations about sex, sexuality, and pleasure…
Navigating sexuality and pleasure: A rural perspective
Growing up in the rural expanses of Nyanza, sex education was shrouded in silence. The mere mention of sexuality was taboo, a subject too laden with sin and shame to approach openly. In my community, conversations around sex were either hushed whispers or outright denials, deeply rooted in the belief that any discussion could lead…
Empowering adolescent girls to embrace their sexuality without shame
Growing up in Kenya, I’ve observed how conversations around sexuality, especially for adolescent girls, are often limited, filled with stigma, and dominated by silence. Whether in families, schools, or community settings, many young girls navigate their changing bodies and emotions with little guidance. As an advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), I’ve…
The freedom is coming
“I will play Papa, I will be the Papa. Marietta will play mama, and all of you will be our children.” The conditioning of sexuality stands firmly on its very deep roots. You are supposed to wait until you are of age, hopefully someone of the opposite sex will choose you. You will get married…
My possessed pair of shorts
Sexual freedom to me is like my demon possessed pair of shorts, at least, that’s what my mother used to call them. They were black and green, blue and pink. On a good day you could see a little bit of brown and yellow. In short, my shorts had all the colours of the rainbow….
“Sexual Freedom”
“Sexual Freedom”, I read aloud the two words in front of my 70-year-old granny and I watched her shift uncomfortably in her chair, knowing then and there that my mission was complete. What mission was that I know you wonder, and the answer is very simple: I wanted to see whether or not my grandmother…
Sexual Freedom Must Be for Everyone
Sexual freedom is known as the authority to lawfully live with and love the person you want,when you want, and how you want without cultural or medical oppression.The freedom flows from the belief that human sexuality cannot be prescribed or legislated as ithelps us to set boundaries for ourselves and allows us to portray any…
Fluidity and expression
My sexual freedom resulted from choosing to ‘look.’ It could have been a terrible thing of course, maybe it was, plainly because of the thin line between admiring and objectifying. But at that time I had kept myself hidden from that world and did not know who I was or what I wanted. The object…