LOVE AND ASHES!
Anyone who’s been in love will tell you that love isn’t always a big glowing red heart. It’s often times the colour of ashes! To truly be in love, we must burn! For many young Catholic folks, the fact that Ash Wednesday falls on…
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Oh dear! Forgive me. I was carried away by the rape matter. Let’s zero in on human trafficking. Nze Sylva gives us reasons to ponder, as we may be more guilty of human trafficking than we care to admit. He says: “Human trafficking, or what…
ABUSE IS CRIMINAL…
Friends, please, if you’re an abuser, or you are related to one, or you know one, you have a responsibility to get such a person to an institution, fast! I have a dream that one day, the sledgehammer will fall, and no one will be spared. Perhaps I…
Lessons from St Josephine Bakhita!
Alpha point… We’re solely responsible for our actions or inactions… It’s true that no one wants a bad name. It’s also true that institutions (secular and religious) would go to great lengths to protect themselves from scandal. However,…
Dealing with emotional suppression!
For starters, I used to be a cry baby (tongue out). I bet you didn’t know that, did you? Growing up, I remember being mummy’s boy. That means I was quite stubborn (well, I still am), I always got whatever I wanted, and I was a little…
Untold tales behind the sex addiction palava!
I have written something very related to this issue on another occasion – ‘This thing called sex addiction’, I captioned it. So I’m not going to talk about sex addiction directly this time around (I already did). I’ll talk…
You can’t make love all dressed up!
Recently, a colleague of mine uploaded a page from a book he was reading on our class chatroom on WhatsApp. The lines were DEEP. I’m not a bookworm, but I recognise thought patterns. Writers that attempt to walk on the fringes of reality, and on…
WHAT’S SEXUAL ADDICTION?
Have you heard of compulsive behaviours? Compulsive behaviours are so called because one has little or no control over them. Sexual addiction is perhaps the most compulsive behaviour affecting young people today. Some of our young people have lost their…
WHAT ABOUT THE LAW OF PROGRESSION?
The law of progression states that once sexual attraction begins, and involved parties continue to hang around each other (without parental supervision) in intimate and secret places, then things could graduate from level A to level B. Wait o!…
HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE LAW OF ATTRACTION?
The law of attraction states that if you hang around someone you like too often, you’d most probably become attracted to him/her (this includes sexual attraction). I said most probably because this may not always be the case. Both parties may not…