Naija Sexual Desires
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Bola Mosuro explores attitudes towards sex and sexuality in her country of origin, Nigeria. Talking openly about sex, desire and pleasure is still mostly a no-go area - especially if you are a woman. Today, however, women are breaking through religious and cultural barriers to claim equality in the bedroom.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC World Service. This program contains frank discussion of themes of an adult nature. This is Légos, the thriving commercial capital of Nigeria, or Nigeria, as we fondly call it. |
| 0:22.0 | It's a city which is home to over 20 million people |
| 0:25.0 | and it's the heaving pulsing heart of the country. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Volamosura, and this is Naija's sexual desires, a program in which we discuss very frankly sex and sexuality. |
| 0:40.0 | Here religion and tradition have helped weave the very fabric of what is quite a conservative society, |
| 0:46.0 | or at least it has been. |
| 0:48.0 | Of late though, sexually explicit stories and images abound. |
| 0:52.0 | These can be from articles about sexual |
| 0:55.1 | encounters on tips on how to improve one's sex life. These are now commonplace in |
| 1:00.5 | the media in song lyrics and music videos. |
| 1:04.0 | Now against this backdrop a sexual revolution appears to be occurring in Nigerian bedrooms. |
| 1:10.0 | For generations millions of women have been told one primary duty of a wife is to meet |
| 1:16.3 | her spouse's sexual needs. |
| 1:19.0 | Very little, if anything, was said about a woman's pleasure. |
| 1:22.2 | I'm Walla Mus Musuro and in this program |
| 1:24.6 | Naija Sexual Desires a cross section of society talk in a very frank way about the |
| 1:30.6 | growing desire among women to seek their own sexual fulfillment and pleasure. |
| 1:35.0 | Ihoma Oohibi is a woman on a mission. |
| 1:39.0 | She's a sexual health and sexual well-being advocate |
| 1:42.0 | and is the first online sex toys retailer to open in Nigeria, catering for the |
| 1:48.0 | needs of women. |
| 1:49.0 | We sell adult toys. |
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