Amid all the crazy hullabaloo going on in Africa, there is peace and serenity in certain people's hearts. In Kenya, Gertrude Mungai has created a workshop to make better lovers out of Kenyan women. With the Valentine's season come and gone she receives flowers and presents from happy husbands.
Surveys have shown that Kenyans have a special appetite for sex, yet they are not good or frequent lovers. A "good wife" goes well beyond being a good mother and a good cook, but women do not seem to know what to expect in a sexual relationship. This causes low esteem in men who then further their desires by having affairs. Ms Mungai believes her therapy forces men to be more helpful around the house and less likely to go around having affairs.
Her therapy consists of preparing women for sex, creating the act of sex into a "love-making ceremony". At first, she merely gave friendly advice to friends and family but her fame grew and she was soon paid to be heard. She now runs her business from the garage of her home, which she has arranged so as to give a serene, tranquil atmosphere to it.
Ms Mungai believes women should assert their "womanhood" despite the challenges of modern life. Though her clients are mostly middle class women from Nairobi, more women are commuting from neighboring towns and even the poorer rural areas (these latter women have free sessions) just to profit from her advice.
Now this may all seem well and good, but if small businesses like these prevent men (in a way) from "sleeping around... don't they also reduce the spread of HIV infections? Couldn't these types of micro-businesses be used to also teach women and men of safer methods of sexual relationships?
I believe this is quite a good idea and could be useful in the future for education and proliferation of safer sexual contact in certain societies; if men do not need to go to the "red-light district" to satisfy their desires, less HIV positive prostitutes can infect them, more health services can prosper due to the lesser infections of venereal diseases and maybe their will be less birth control laws needed in countries where birth levels are outstandingly high.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
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2 comments:
This is an awesome article! Not only is Gertrude Mungai empowering women, she is teaching life long skills which women will be able to use to better their domestic situations. Speaking as a woman, I think that sexual satisfaction is important in a long term relationship. It not only increases the happiness of both partners, but can also lead to a better and more stable marriage. It seems that this sex therapy is working. Husbands are having fewer affairs and this is very important for family stability. If the men are not having affairs, the women can be happier. This can lead to a healthier family life. Also, as Adelaide mentions, if the men are not having affairs, they are not exposing themselves to becoming infected with HIV. It seems that this unconventional method is helping couples. By reducing HIV risk and augmenting the happiness of marriage it seems that this therapy is lending small steps to development
While I think it is interesting what Gertude Mungai is doing, I think that it is not going to change much. It is idealistic to think that having a less inhibited wife will stop men from having affairs. The article notes that women are being taught such techniques as pole dancing. It seems that when a man searches beyond his marriage for sex, there are probably more problems than pole dancing can solve. Men are often seeking more than just sex when they venture outside their marriage and those issues need to be addressed as well. Instead, communication techniques should be being taught which address the underlying issues of a man having affairs. This would also help with their sex lives as couples could learn to talk about that together. Although these classes may address one issue in a marriage, it just seems that a lot more needs to be done to stop men who are cheating and therefore slow down the spread of AIDS.
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