Archive for the tag "kenya"

Cross your legs and think of Kenya (01/05/09)

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga won’t get laid this week. Or at least not at home — his wife Ida is leading a national sex boycott. And he may not have better luck outside the home; activists have done a deal with sex workers, paying them not to give their men relief in the boycott [...]

Kenya gets out the scalpel, circumcising men to prevent HIV (12/04/08)

Kenya plans to offer all men the snip, in an effort to reduce HIV transmission. It’s a brave move in a country when circumcision status is a badge of ethnicity and differences in ethnicity are reason enough for rioting, looting and murder. According to a report in The Nation Kenya’s Ministry of Health has published [...]

Older white woman (28/11/07)

As I was sitting at Nairobi airport on Monday, waiting for a flight that was delayed by eight hours because British Airways couldn’t find a flight crew, I was hammered by another piece of bad news. Apparently Kenya is the place for white women of a certain age to go for sexual entertainment. (See Reuters [...]

While we’re on sex in Kenya… (28/11/07)

Here’s one of my all-time favourite condom ads, for Kenya’s Trust brand. Hats off to the American taxpayer for funding this ad, and the very affordable and (in my experience) not bad quality Trust condoms it promotes.