Sex Education: Whose Responsibility?
I love my parents. But I didn’t get any opportunity to tell my mom how much I love her before she died. Sad! Nice enough excuse! But my Dad is still very much alive, and I still don’t get to tell him how much I love him. Why? It’s just…
HOW APPROPRIATE IS GROPING?
Oselumhense Anetor Back in the seminary, we had one Prof. Asuzu who could talk about human sexuality and sensuality like ‘no-man-business’. It was only in that man’s class that those who considered themselves above scandal, got…
LESBIANS ARE PEOPLE TOO!
According to Gianoulis T, (2004), “Situational, or ’emergency’ homosexuality is commonly defined as sexual activity with partners of the same sex that occurs not as part of a gay lifestyle, but because the participants happen to find…
MARRIED BUT SINGLE?
Oselumhense Anetor I have a friend, Ekwu Emmanuel (Emybon), founder of the StraightTALK series. I first met him in Lagos on one of my missionary journeys. His write-ups never cease to amaze me (you can look him up on Facebook). I’m sure what…
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…
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…
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…