Secondary school sexual violence
August 2015, 40 boys from St Patrick’s Boys High School had walked 6 kms to raid a girl’s dormitory at Sing’ore Girls High School. The boys were going to rape the girls. Let
A brief rant
It's so easy to access porn these days. Imagine what impact this is having on our children. I show great restraint in writing a really short rant this morning - I could go on, but
The contraceptive Yasmin – should you worry?
Oral contraceptives are highly effective at doing what they are supposed to do - helping women have babies when they are ready. So what is it about the contraceptive Yasmin that is
Condoms are most effective when applied by men……….hmmmm
Who is better at condom application - the man or the woman? Some scientists actually sought to find that out - its not ground breaking stuff and I really needed a light read.
Blaming the victim
There are few crimes in the world where the victim is blamed for what happens to them. Rape is one of those. I wrote an article on why this happens that was published as a DN2 cove
My mother is a prostitute…… what does that make me?
A Swahili saying goes ‘mtoto wa nyoka ni nyoka’ – that the child of a snake is a snake. So what do you imagine is the outcome of the life of a little girl raised by a single
Cut Pat some slack
Pat says Kenyan towels have AIDS, cut him some slack, it was not that bad.
The child molester’s tricks
The preliminary results from of the Kenya Aids Indicator Survey 2012 are out. The results look good – on the whole HIV has gone down in all of Kenya, except Nyanza. http://nascop
Who is the criminal here?
Going through the nation yesterday (May 6th 2014), I came across another teenage abortion story – with a title (Crime: teenager’s boyfriend arrested). Have a read.
Sex education
This week, I will put the scholarly pieces aside a bit and just talk about what sex education as I experienced it and as I see it now. I will focus on the girl – not because I do